by steve | Jan 15, 2022 | News, Technology
With the help of HackerBoxes.com, I’ve built a miniature version of the JumbTron you see at your favorite sports stadium! Take a peek at two demos of it in action: Where am I going with these projects? The goal is to pull information from my various web...
by steve | Jul 11, 2021 | Idea Hose, Technology
Now in these days this is an unpopular idea in some quarters, but services like Twitter and Facebook do not have any kind of monopoly over “social media”. The people making decisions at these services have been using online discussion groups for a lot...
by steve | Apr 11, 2021 | News, Technology
Here’s my problem: in my home office I bounce between a desktop and three laptops and in the interest of speed-of-getting-things-done I end up saving files and downloads on whatever machine I’m working on instead of taking the extra seconds to make sure...
by steve | Apr 8, 2021 | News, Technology
Once you’ve picked up the very basics of the command line in whatever variant of UNIX, GNU/Linux, etc you have handy, you’ve just scratched the surface of “expert mode” on your way to “wizard mode”. Command line tools are something...
by steve | Mar 29, 2020 | News, Technology
Hey, did you know that Google search will do math for you? Try it out! 8 * 5 + 5…not only returns the calculated answer of 45, but also displays a full calculator for further use. This Lifehack.org post has this and a number of other clever things about Google...
by steve | Jan 29, 2020 | News, Technology
Minecraft. Game of the Decade? Quite possibly. I’d mostly ignored it for years as I had other things to do. Then my little girl and her friends started diving in. I’d watch Chloe and the other kids start up and start worlds from scratch on their...
