Posts Tagged ‘Maya’

Meet Maya Elektra

by on June 1st, 2011

Meet Maya Elektra, CuteGeek’s youngest tech reviewer and the star of our HP Wireless Printer Video clip earlier this month.

Maya is 7 and a half years old and is just learning to read. She has grown up around technology, art and literature and loves anything that brings them together. She attends The Child School on Roosevelt Island where she competed in this years science fair against kids from kindergarten to twelfth grade and she won a Science Award this month in her Washington Heights community through The Children Arts & Sciences Workshop. Her Science Club teacher has agreed to let Maya demo some educational tech in class when they reconvene in September.

This is Maya chillin’ in the subway at Columbus Circle, immersed in playing Angry Birds on the new Android Infuse.

(Maya is Wendy Wick’s daughter – if you are interested in getting Maya to review items – please email Wendy@CuteGeek.com)

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Girls Out Loud Show Episode 1: Hello World

by on May 18th, 2010

The Girls Out Loud Show has been created! Join us each week as hosts Maya Grinberg and Cristina Cordova discuss, debate, and discover the weeks most interesting tech, web, and social news stories.
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Love Vibes iPhone App

by on October 20th, 2009

I got an email last week asking that I check out this new iPhone app, with a redeem code for iTunes. My reaction? Sweet! Now I get to be added to the ranks of other such internet celebrities that have checked the app out and wrote about it, like Fake Steve Jobs, who wrote a funny little sentence about it possibly being a hoax.

Is the app, Love Vibes, a hoax? I don’t think it is. Does it have any more utility to you than a hoax would? It doesn’t.
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HTC Hero (from an iPhone devotee)

by on October 13th, 2009

The HTC Hero is an attractive phone, with a large clear screen and a small panel for buttons. While it is an Android phone, it is interestingly not marketed as a Google phone, as the MyTouch is or the first TMobile G1 that came out. What this may mean in terms of how the phone operates is not completely clear to me, the operating system remains the operating system, its running Android Cupcake (yum!) just like the other Android phones (although 1.6,Donut is arriving soon…so. Hmm.)

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SO wanted right now:

by on October 8th, 2009

How cute is this?

My friend sent it to me in an email knowing I’d love it.

Romantic!

Romantic!

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To Tweet, or not to Tweet

by on October 7th, 2009

Do you Twitter?

At this point, with all the hubbub about Twitter all over the news and mainstream media in general, everybody and their mom knows what Twitter is. But do they use it? While there are over 25 million users of the service already, 80% of accounts have fewer than 10 followers which implies that the majority of such users are only followers, and not Twitter “leaders.” Couple this with the fact that many folks hop onto Twitter to see what all the fuss is about, don’t get into the groove of “leading” a social stream in this manner, and go inactive, and you get the picture. Maybe it’s not as wildfire as everybody makes it out to be?
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Google Wave, or, the revolution?

by on October 7th, 2009

Last week, I was among the lucky folks who got a promotion got lucky won the lottery got a Google Voice invite. (It sure felt like winning the lottery, though!) Since then, I’ve done my fair share of playing around with it, and so far, what I’ve seen has been very promising. While it’s not a completely intuitive interface, I feel that this can be allowed given that what Google is going for is a communications revolution.  It’s not immediately obvious how to reply to “Waves,” the usual commands are a little over-reactive while being under-reactive at the same time. Allow me to explain: Google Wave, as it exists now, is not ready for complete public consumption, and the private invite-only beta is more of a use “experience.” In fact, it’s even branded as the Google Wave preview right now. As such, this experience is usually pretty slow. Which makes it really a little frustrating to press ENTER to try and reply to a Wave, have nothing happen, press it again, maybe double click a few times, maybe hit reply– only to watch 15 “Wave-lettes,” as I would like to call the Wave responses, appear on the screen, all blank.
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Oh hai! Maya reporting for duty, usually in LOLspeak.

by on October 7th, 2009

Greetings! My name is Maya, and I am a super geek.  I’m not sure that you would be able to tell immediately that this is the case– I look and act normal (…uh, I’ve been told) and I don’t have a CS degree or a technical background. But here it is, in one sentence (with a colon, because I never do things the simple way)–

There are three things I love: my family, my boyfriend, and the interwebz.
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