Ctrl-Alt-Random: Gadgets That Deserved Better (Bless Their Little Hearts)
Welcome back to Ctrl-Alt-Random, the tech corner where we dust off the relics of innovation and give them a good, hard look. This week, we’re diving into the digital graveyard to exhume three gadgets that, frankly, deserved a better fate. …
Search Wormhole: What Was Before Google? Yahoo! I Found the Answer!
Before Google turned search into an instant, algorithm-driven answer machine, the internet looked more like a phone book that had a nervous breakdown. Enter Yahoo! (yes, with the exclamation point, because this was the ’90s and punctuation was branding). Founded …
The Great Disconnect: Remote Work in 2025
Remember when “remote work” was supposed to be the future? Yeah, welcome to 2025—where the future is here, but nobody can agree on what it actually looks like. Employees want flexibility. Employers want control. And job postings? Half of them …
Google’s AI SEO Shake-Up: 3 Changes That Actually Matter
Google has rolled out major AI-driven changes to its search engine, and while the SEO community is buzzing, much of the conversation is focused on the surface-level impact. But the real transformation runs deeper. Here are three fundamental shifts that …
Ctrl-Alt-Upgrade: Why People Already Miss GPT-4
When OpenAI rolled out GPT-5, it wasn’t just a tech upgrade — it was a personality transplant. And a lot of users? They didn’t take it well. In the days after the launch, Twitter/X, Bluesky, and Reddit filled up with …
Tech Products With the Strangest Original Names
Every billion-dollar tech brand started somewhere — but some of those “somewheres” came with names that would never survive today’s focus group. Google was once Backrub — named after the algorithm’s “backlink analysis” function. It crawled the web’s link structure …
Search Wormhole: Oldest Still-Running Website
Today’s search: “oldest still-running website” The answer takes you back to CERN’s first web page from 1991 — a plain-text monument to the birth of the World Wide Web. It’s not flashy. No autoplay videos. No pop-ups asking for your …
AI Job Search Tools Reviewed: Fast, Smart, and Occasionally Dumb
⚡ Career.exe Quick Take Best for speed: Sorce – Tinder-style job hunting for high-volume applications. Best for precision: JobCopilot – Automated applications with smart targeting. Best for résumés: Rezi – ATS-friendly, keyword-loaded résumés in minutes. 💡 Pro tip: AI job …
ChatGPT 5’s Unified Routing System vs. Perplexity
The Old Problem: Picking Models Yourself In past AI chats (including earlier ChatGPT versions), you had to guess which model to use. Fast but shallow? Slow but deep? Plus, who knows the difference between this -mini model or that “deep …