Your First Home Office Network
“Telecommuting” – it’s the only way to fly! Being able to work from home will change how you think about work. And setting up a home network is easier now than ever. Gone are the days when you had to study wheel vs. ring vs. serial diagrams – network capable devices [...]
Comparing Touchscreens and Keyboards
The home user has only to take a moment to consider whether they like touchscreens or keyboards, but the business owner and industrial provider has to ponder the question more deeply. The question changes when you’re ordering for thousands of employees. We’ll discuss ramifications for both here.
Keyboards have a lot of loyalty [...]
There needs to be a Gadget for everything? Right?
Well given that cardboard is so 1980’s and every item of clothing will soon need to have a battery to make it “do something” – the MingleStick fills an age-old niche. The business card replacement.
While I can’t see companies handing out MingleSticks instead of business cards to [...]
Over and over, we keep hearing about drives to bring a personal mobile computer to every student. There was the famed – but ultimately ill-fated – XO Laptop, which was to be cheaply produced and sold directly to governments around the world for their citizen’s use. There’s now about 12 versions of their story out [...]
We start with Moore’s Law, which states (roughly) that the number of transistors which can be placed on an integrated circuit doubles every two years. In other words, electronics component density will allow computers to double their efficiency to size ratio every two years. This means that devices can keep getting smaller, and that devices [...]
Once upon the 20th century, we had the phreakers. Phreakers were phone hackers; they’d use various equipment and techniques to rig the public phone system, getting free calls, snooping on private calls, even running their own private network, and generally abusing the telephone system for naughty stuff. Then along came the computer age proper, and [...]
Now that “cloud” computing is here, everybody is heaving a sigh of relief that they don’t have to buy, download, or install as much software. We’ll always need some, but isn’t it becoming a nice bonus that you can offload a lot of tasks to the platform of the Internet itself, and use them just [...]
“The web as a platform”. That’s the mantra you’ve been hearing a lot about, applied to cloud computing. The idea behind cloud computing is basically to take all the computer that you have in front of you and condense it down to an operating system running a web browser, with everything else coming through the [...]
With Australian Internet users up in arms about the prospect of mandatory Internet filtering by the government, we thought this would be a timely subject. The purpose of this article is to show what Internet filtering is, and also why it isn’t the best solution to the problem of illegal content online. It is not [...]
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– If you have images hosted at sites like Photobucket, you can paste them directly into forum text boxes by using the “IMG Code” shown under the [...]
