Category Archives: Computer

Caine’s arcade

Posted on 04/11/2012 by Zed

Only 11 minutes long. From YouTube: A 9 year old boy who built an elaborate cardboard arcade in his dad’s used auto parts store is about to have the best day of his life. Help Caine’s Scholarship Fund: http://CainesArcade.com Call me … Continue reading →

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Celebrating Alan Turing

Posted on 12/19/2011 by Zed

Alan Turing was a brilliant British mathematician who during World War II helped to break German ciphers for the British government’s Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park. He worked as part of a team that was responsible for the decipherment … Continue reading →

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The Worst Internet Passwords

Posted on 11/21/2011 by Zed

Image used under Flickr CCLi. Image credit: Flickr user Jeroen Bennink. According to SplashData’s annual list of worst Internet passwords, the very worst password is “Password.” SplashData, quoted on mashable.com, created the rankings based on millions of stolen passwords posted online … Continue reading →

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Ron Johnson: What I Learned Building the Apple Store

Posted on 11/21/2011 by Zed

Apple Store, Scottsdale Road in Scottsdale, AZ. Used under Flickr CCLi. Image credit: Flickr user Dru Bloomfield. One of the most dramatic success stories of the last decades has been the meteoric triumph of Apple’s retail stores. US Apple Stores … Continue reading →

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Kodak’s iPhone photo app creates instant social networks

Posted on 11/16/2011 by Zed

Today Kodak announced Gallery, a free app for the iPhone, that allows users to create on-the-fly social networks to share their photos. Say, for example, you are at a wedding, you can create an instant network of other people snapping … Continue reading →

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Is Apple’s Lion a stinker?

Posted on 11/10/2011 by Zed

Despite the massive hype of its new Lion upgrade from Apple, Chitika, an online analytics company that tracks user behavior, has noticed a stagnation of Lion users online. According to TechCrunch, after an initial burst of sales the adoption of Apple’s … Continue reading →

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Steve Jobs was right: Adobe kills mobile Flash

Posted on 11/09/2011 by Zed

Seems that Steve Jobs was right after all when he banned Adobe’s Flash from all the Apple mobile devices. Adobe has announced that it will cease development of Flash for mobile devices, and instead switch over resources to creating html5-based … Continue reading →

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Comparing Google and Apple

Posted on 11/09/2011 by Zed

Ben Parr has an article at Mashable comparing the key differences between Google and Apple that is well worth a read. Both companies are enormously successful and have played a defining role in current technologies. However, Parr’s thesis is that … Continue reading →

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I hate captchas, you hate captchas, we all hate captchas!

Posted on 11/03/2011 by Zed

I can’t think of anything more annoying that captchas when surfing the web. I am sure I am not alone in trying to register for a website and just quitting upon seeing a captcha show up. Captchas are annoying, they … Continue reading →

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Final words of Steve Jobs

Posted on 10/31/2011 by Zed

Novelist Mona Simpson delivered the eulogy for her brother, Steve Jobs, on Oct. 16 at his memorial service at the Memorial Church of Stanford University. She spoke about his final words: “…he’d looked at his sister Patty, then for a … Continue reading →

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