Tag: PANIC

In both horror and sadness, the world is watching the crisis unfold in Japan. The damage to the Fukushima nuclear facility adds another menacing dimension to the disaster. As murky reports emerge, so does increasing panic, made only worse by the viral aspect of social networking. Frantic messages have been pervasive on Twitter, where Tokyo residents report fleeing, encouraged by the ...

Years of browser innovation have given us extremely powerful and capable apps, but a new Mac browser from Panic's Neven Mrgan has us more excited than any Chrome extension or flashy HTML5 demo. The free, Mac-only Pixelfari converts the Web to 8-bits of beautiful, pixelated glory. Sure, it crashed twice in our testing, but the blocky browser renders everything -- text and graphics -- as if you ...

There's a load of great tech news happening out there every day, and, unfortunately, we just can't cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. Growing up in the '80s and '90s, Microsoft Encarta was a standby in the classroom CD rack. PC Mag examines 10 other forgotten compact discs of the era, ranging from ...

We've been keeping a close eye on this ongoing Swine Flu "pandemic," if mostly just to gawk at CNN medical correspondent Sanjay Gupta as he barrels around Mexico City doing his best to look like a post-apocalyptic hero. Of course, if Swine Flu cases were proportional to the amount of media coverage the health-scare has been getting, we might actually have something to worry about. But you ...