Tag: CURRENCY

Many countries print their currencies in different sizes or shapes in order to help the blind and visually impaired pay for things with greater confidence. In the U.S., however, a $1 bill and a $100 bill have exactly the same dimensions, making it difficult for America's blind to tell the difference. Fortunately, though, there's a new iPhone app that can help. With the LookTel Money Reader, ...

After finally taking the plunge and joining Twitter, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has wasted no time in using the micro-blogging service to blame others for his country's economic woes. During his weekly radio and television address this weekend, Chavez urged his followers to use Twitter to alert government authorities if they run into any currency speculators, whom Chavez blames for ...

Well, the U.S. Treasury Department is at it again. We all remember when paper money last changed -- when the locket-sized portraits of the presidents blew up into those off-center, plus-size cartoons we now have, and when all those watermarks and "security strips" started to make a $20 bill look like the Las Vegas strip. While we have missed the stately symmetry of those old bills, though, we ...

Soon, Facebook Gifts will complete its evolution from an annoying virtual trend to a legitimate shopping experience. That means bringing on third-party developers and yes, actual physical gifts. Inside Facebook reports that the social networking behemoth has decided to offer third-party gifts, which will include their respective developers' logos. More importantly, users will be able to actually ...

In common tech parlance, to modify an image digitally is to "Photoshop" it, slang that has developed thanks to the incredible popularity of Adobe's premier photo editing application. One place where the application has apparently become especially common is in the creation of counterfeit currency, and now the company has taken a step to attempt to prevent its use there, disabling the print ...