Girl Scout Cookie Finder App: Probably Greatest Invention Of All Time
Girl Scout Cookie Locator. Need I explain more?
I’ve Got A Ticket To Ride And I Don’t Care
Laura’s Team Pick: I’m not talking about the Beatles song. I’m riding high because I just can’t stop playing this game.
Queer Your Tech With Fun: This Is An Alan Turing Tribute Post
As many of you pointed out, my pseudonym is Lana Turing in tribute. Because without Turing, none of us computer nerds would be as advanced as we are today.
Backing Up Your Ish: What The Hell Is The Cloud?
The cloud isn’t actually a magical place in the sky– more likely it’s a data center in Tennessee somewhere. Let’s talk about why you should think about cloud storage and some basics to get you started.
Queer Your Tech With Fun: Your New Year’s Resolution to Code in 2013
So to break up the backing up series, I thought I’d just do a short interlude today: Code Academy makes it fast and fun to learn to code with JavaScript, HTML/CSS, Ruby and Python. You get these teeny tiny little badges like you’re coding girl scout nerd, which of course makes me smile a lot.
More Than Words: Sisterhood of the Sapphic Pants
Yeah, Sappho was a right-on woman, but that’s pretty much all anyone really knows about her. Today we’re going all the way back to the birth of the word ‘sapphic.’
Queer Your Tech With Fun: Backing Up Your Ish, Part 2
We’re going to talk about formatting the hard drive for your operating system, hard drives that you can buy that fit your needs and budget and even about building your own hard drive from parts (this can keep the cost down and is extra special nerdy.)
Queer Your Tech With Fun: Backing Up Your Ish, Part 1
Part one of backing it up: discussing what it is, why we need to do it, what the different kinds of back ups are, etc.
Queer Your Tech With Fun: Read About Technology on Your Technology
“This is a post all about pulling amazing material from various places around the interwebs.”
Queer Your Tech With Fun: Mac Trackpad Shortcuts For the Win
Basically, trackpad shortcuts aren’t just super duper time savers when you’re using a Mac. They’re also an opportunity for me to talk about one-finger, two-finger, three-finger and four-finger gestures with an audience who will get the joke.
Queer Your Tech with Fun: Make a F***ing To-Do List
You need a to-do list. Yes. You do.
Queer Your Tech with Fun: Word Processors That Aren’t Made by Microsoft
Let’s transgress the Microsoft system. Say it with me now: there are more options than Microsoft Word.
Queer Your Tech With Fun: Smart Phones, Pen Pals and Liquor
This week in the world of tech, we’re going to talk about two of our favorite things: apps for your awesome Autostraddle Air Mail Pen Pals, and apps for liquor.
You Can Use Technology to Navigate the Anti-Gay Hate
I just want to read my daily news with someone that’s as flabbergasted as I am.
WoWzer: Have We Got A Guild For You
Give us your tired, your poor, your huddled pandas, and we will give you . . . a World of Warcraft Autoguild: Horde edition.
Your Gay Guide to iOS 6: Passbook, Panorama and VIP Inbox, Oh My!
Because like half of these new features will be useful for the next A-Camp.
Geek Things You Should Know About
Gettin’ geeky with it.
Sleep Cycle Makes Rising and Shining A Feasible Possibility
Laura’s Team Pick: The sun is up, the sky is blue, it’s beautiful and so are you.
What If? Takes Thought Experiments To The Next Level
Laura’s Team Pick: What if xkcd got just a little nerdier?
A Whole New World (of Warcraft)
Ladies and gentlebois, this is my coming out: I am a proud, gay, level 85 warlock. And I am here to recruit you.