by steve | Nov 13, 2012 | News, Technology
The good news? Continued employment for us computer geeks. You don’t have to be for one candidate over the other to appreciate the lessons learned here. This story tells the tale of the Obama team’s data mining efforts: How Obama’s data crunchers...
by steve | Aug 20, 2012 | News, Technology
Through the magic of having a decent Klout score I was chosen by Chevrolet to have a two-day test drive of a brand-new Chevy Volt in return for talking about it to you through my social network. So why not? My ’88 Saab 900 is going need to be replaced someday....
by steve | Aug 15, 2012 | Technology
I’ve been experimenting with .NET Gadgeteer. It’s an open-source toolkit for building small electronic devices, pretty much the same idea as the Arduino. Why Gadgeteer instead of Arduino? I don’t have a lot of spare time or room to work and...
by admin | Mar 19, 2012 | Design, News, Technology
Steve’s Carnegie Mellon classmates Drew Olbrich and Kevin Goldsmith have produced this very educational and entertaining iPhone app that demonstrates how a you can visualize the fourth dimension in just three. It may just blow your mind! Read more and get the...
by steve | Jan 13, 2012 | Technology
You think a person could just put an audio file on their web site, but you’d be wrong. There’s no one audio format that’s supported by all the browsers. Here’s the breakdown: For further details, read more at the Scirra blog:...
by steve | Dec 30, 2011 | Technology
Ok, you’ve got Ubuntu running on your machine through Parallels. You could run all the linux/unix foo directly on your OSX hardware, and that’s not really hard at all, but what if you need to match what’s really going on with your live web server?...