Futurist's Cheat Sheet: Internet of Things
Through the Internet, humans have connected the world. People are closer to each other than ever while still remaining apart. The next phase…
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Fri, 31 August 2012
Wed, 29 August 2012
Futurist's Cheat Sheet: Holographic Displays
Movies are filled with big, bright 3D holographic images. Whether it is Tom Cruise manipulating items out of thin air in Minority Report…
Futurist's Cheat Sheet: Quantum Computing
Moore's Law describes the phenomenon that makes this year's computer more capable and less expensive than last year's. But it won't go on…
Tue, 28 August 2012
Futurist's Cheat Sheet: Biometric Authentication
The problem is not new. One way or another, people have to validate their identities. I am trying to enter a building or a Web service…
Mon, 27 August 2012
Futurist's Cheat Sheet: Human Augmentation
As long as there have been humans, there have been dreams of super humans. Eyeglasses started sharpening vision in the 1200s…
Tue, 24 April 2012
4 Cool Things You Can Do With Wappwolf and ifttt
Wappwolf and ifttt are a bit like the chocolate and peanut butter in Reese's Peanut Butter Cups. Separate, they're pretty good. Together…
Mon, 23 April 2012
Top Windows 8 Features: File History
The disk maintenance tools that Microsoft ships with Windows have always been, at best, tolerable. Now that there's an entire industry…
Windows 8 Feature: Refresh, Reset & Recovery
Yes, there really are 10 important and beneficial changes you'll find in Microsoft Windows 8, beginning with Refresh. Let's just say it's…
Fri, 20 April 2012
Insider's Guide to Technology Analysts
Gartner. Forrester. IDC. And lots of smaller fish, too. You can't read a tech-industy news story, attend a conference or listen to a sales…
Thu, 19 April 2012
Using SPDY on Your Web Server
Google's SPDY protocol offers several advantages over serving traffic via HTTP/HTTPS. But, if you want to use SPDY, you're going to have…
Sat, 14 April 2012
A Requiem For RIM
Since Research In Motion made BlackBerry synonymous with smartphones in the early aughts, the company has taken a pounding for mis-steps…
Wed, 11 April 2012
8 Things Instagram Did Right
With its billion-dollar sale to Facebook, Instagram instantly became the latest poster child for startup success. In just 551 days, the…
Fri, 30 March 2012
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[Poll] Do Developers Think Consumers Like Push Notifications?
Easy, instant push notifications are a phenomenon of modern mobile technology. They deliver news, app updates, requests and prompts to users…
Wed, 28 March 2012
The Many Layered Approach to Mobile App Testing
You are almost there. The finish line is so close you can taste the champagne toast that comes with victory and a job well done. But…
Trello: Online Collaboration Software at Its Finest
If you've seen one Web-based collaboration tool, you've seen 'em all, right? That was my thinking, until I started seriously looking at…
Tue, 27 March 2012
Autodesk CEO Pushes "Democratization" of Technology
Most people think of Autodesk as the maker of AutoCAD, the design software of choice for architects, engineers and other design…
Tue, 20 March 2012
jPlayer: A HTML5 Audio and Video Player for jQuery
Don't know whether your visitors are going to be able to use Flash or HTML5 for video and audio playback? Don't guess, take a look at the…
Mon, 19 March 2012
From Gmail to FastMail: Moving Away from Google
One of my New Year's Resolutions for 2012 is to move away from depending on Google services for my business. Last year's Gmail redesign, and…
Fri, 16 March 2012
Accidental Time Capsule: Moments from Computing in 1994
If you ever have your friends and/or relatives help you relocate, be sure to keep the security cameras rolling. There will be packing and…
Mon, 5 March 2012
Can Data Tell the Story of a Location? Discovering Haight Street
With the right data, you can get a pretty interesting picture of an area. Whether it's a state, city, or even a street, you can learn a…
Wed, 22 February 2012
Apple's Messages Beta: Pretty Meh in a Mixed OS World
As part of the Mountain Lion preview last week, Apple put out a beta of its revamped chat application, Messages. If you spend a lot of…
Tue, 21 February 2012
10 Tips for Using Evernote Effectively
Evernote is a tool for keeping track of, well, everything. At least everything as far as digital information goes, or information that can…
Sat, 11 February 2012
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[Data Visualization] GE and the Internet of Turbines
The next time you have to get an MRI or CT scan you might not know it but if the equipment is made by GE it is phoning home. No, the…
Mon, 6 February 2012
PR for Developers 101: How to Bootstrap Project Coverage
One of the things that I'm often asked by developers at conferences is "how do I get coverage for my project?" I had that conversation…
