Recent News

July 20th, 2010

Full Circle Real Estate Group Featured in New York Times

The Athens-based Full Circle Real Estate Group is featured in the Great Homes and Destinations section of The New York Times.  The article showcases property values for homeowners around around $210,000.

June 20th, 2010

Tapping into World Cup Online

Because of this monumental month of sports mayhem, I have scoured the Internet for you Football hooligans out there and have found what I believe to be the best places experience World Cup chaos on the net.

June 06th, 2010

iPhone 4G: The Hottest Rumor of the Summer

On June 7th, Apple is hosting the WWDC (Worldwide Developers Conference) in San Jose, California, and will likely reveal a major announcement to the iPhone hungry world, rumored to be the latest and greatest version of the iPhone: The iPhone 4G.

May 27th, 2010

Online Movie Renting Overtakes Stores

Remember the days when your favorite Saturday night pastime was strolling through the video store, carefully examining every title in the New Release section and choosing the best of three by playing a game of Eeny, Meeny, Miny Moe?

May 19th, 2010

Website Launch: Amazon Continuum

Boxkite Media has launched the official website for The Amazon Continuum, an Amazon River-based research project focused on studying the effects of the Amazon River plume and how it impacts climate change. 

May 18th, 2010

iPhone App Release: Combat Focus Shooting

Boxkite Media has teamed up with long-time client I.C.E. Training to develop a one-of-a-kind, self-defense-focused iPhone application, appropriately titled Combat Focus Shooting.

May 11th, 2010

Facebook Opens Door to Info

With businesses using Facebook as an informational website surrogate and friends posting daily wall comments it's almost impossible to adequately function without Facebook in our 21st Century Facebook-driven society. 

April 26th, 2010

Google Rolls Out Biking Directions

Teaming up with the Rails-to-Trails Conservatory (RTC), Google Maps now offers access to over 12,000 bike trails and directions in more than 150 cities across America (Athens included).

April 23rd, 2010

The Importance of Well Designed Code

Spaghetti code, big balls of mud, and copy-and-paste programming. We've all seen it before, and it ain't pretty. So what do you do when you need to fend off God objects, infinitely intertwined GOTOs, highly-coupled code, or other anti-patterns?

April 18th, 2010

Best of Athens Twitter List

Because I am a firm believer in Twitter and its capability to promote local businesses, I have compiled a Best of Athens Twitter List for all you readers out there in hopes one day you will become what I like to call a true "Nit-Twit." 

April 07th, 2010

On an iPad Pilgrimage

As we climbed out of the overly priced, 1970s style cheetah print geriatric area of the department store, we began our enduring trek across the mall to the Holy Land (or the Apple store for those who do not consider Steve Jobs as the savior). 

April 04th, 2010

Cloud Computing Helps to Level Playing Field

Over the past few years, cloud computing has accumulated major interest among businesses and Internet technology patrons alike, and was recently chosen by CNN as one of the top web trends to watch in 2010.

March 29th, 2010

The Internet of Things reality as IBM, SmartLabs see potential

The Jetsons-like idea known as the "Internet of Things" states that one day our physical surroundings will be able to communicate with our digital life...

March 26th, 2010

Technology: The End of Spelling As We Know It

Flawlessly living up to the standard of a true friend, Google encourages us to spell our best by selflessly handing over multiple tips about what word he thinks we are trying to spell.

March 08th, 2010

Google Case In Italy May Alter Web Experience

"Don't be Evil" is the well-known and beloved motto of the search engine altruist Google, so the Italian court system's recent finding that three Google executives were guilty of violating Italian privacy laws, seems somewhat paradoxical.