Cloud computing is nothing new. Email has always been "in the cloud," especially IMAP which allows you to have your desktop email mirror that of your online mailbox and sync mailboxes across multiple computers. Many so-called "cloud" computing solutions are much less impressive by comparison, since they really only exist in the cloud – and [...]
The vast majority of the world is multilingual. Not only are they multilingual, but many people use multiple scripts as well, including character based scripts like Chinese and right-to-left scripts like Hebrew and Arabic. In the old days of computing each of these various scripts was handled differently, with each computer platform using various different [...]
In this clip ‘self-hating Jew’ Jon Stewart points out the obviously one-sided and mobius-strip like quality of mainstream American news coverage of the war in Gaza. Together with help from Kiven Strohm and other friends on Twitter and Facebook, I’ve compiled a list of resources about Gaza, with the aim of providing an alternative view. [...]
I’ve been using Apple computers since 1986. I used to think I would never use anything but… The recent development of both open source and cloud computing has changed all that. A lot of the tools I use would run on any platform: firefox, songbird, evernote, open office, etc. And more and more, Firefox is [...]
The iPhone happens to be a great eBook reader. Despite (or because of) its small size, it is actually a very pleasant reading interface. This is partially because of the screen’s high resolution, and partially because the width of the screen is just about the same as that of a column of newspaper print. Unfortunately, [...]
There is no doubt about it, Facebook is a more popular site than Twitter. And not just by a little bit either. Comparing the two is like comparing a stadium rock concert with seeing a band at your local pub: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/facebook_kicking_twitters_ass.php?page=2 ”HubSpot estimates that Twitter has 4 to 5 million users, 30% of which are [...]
Shashwati and I finally got to the Taipei Biennial, on the last weekend before it closed. That means we missed most of the site-specific pieces around Taipei, but we did get to the main exhibit at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, which was surprisingly busy – perhaps because admission was free. The highlight of the [...]