Google Glass has the potential to be the pinnacle of device convergence. These glasses may (ultimately) be able to integrate the real with the virtual world (i.e. Augmented Reality), and take the place of the recently ubiquitous smartphones, by replicating most of the same functions (online access, email, web, video, music, possibly even phone) with [...]
I’ve been using EverNote for several teas now. I originally started using this application as a means to diminish (or even eliminate) the loads of paper which my life was built upon. Even at first, just having a flatbed scanner took care of all of my needs well enough, but the promise of storing [...]
The internet of things is a growing meme on the internet. In a nutshell, this is a push towards adding senses to things. If you have a smartphone, you are on the edge of this growing universe. It’s sometimes easy to forget how many sensors you are carrying in your pocket (WiFi and Bluetooth radios, [...]
I ditched all of my guitar amps and pedals several years ago (2007), and have been using virtual equivalents in the iPad, iPhone, and computers for a while. One of the biggest shortcomings of this sort of system is that you need to be near a mouse or a screen to change parameters when playing [...]
Over the last year, I have seen an increasing number of online articles continuing the drumbeat that passwords are only a limited form of security, and the growing number of cyber crimes based upon stolen identities and cracked passwords. It now looks like Google will be pushing some form of physical security (like Yubikey’s products). [...]
We live in an age where having instant communications are an ever present norm, Cell phones allow us to be in contact with almost anyone, anywhere. I imagine that you can see this more clearly if you watch some old movies or TV programs. The plot lines are often written around the idea that we [...]
Over the last several years, I have written about what would seem to be a rather obvious proposition: We live in a world filled with electronics, and most of the people I know, know almost nothing about electronics. This is a rather dangerous situation, and electronics is only a tip of the technological iceberg (containing [...]
As a means to start ‘retooling’ and to develop some new skills on the internet, learning to write code has to be about as fundamental as it can get. I want to consider some of the less obvious reasons to look into code. I see this as, first off, we live in a time where [...]
There are a lot of ironies in playing the electric guitar. Most of he gear that is now used was cutting edge, experimental stuff from the fifties through the seventies. Those guitarists (way back then…) were experimenters and were, quite obviously, not too beholding to the past. It is in this what the real ironies [...]
I’ve been using the iPad more and more in the last few months. It is quite obviously a very handy way to deal with media (emails, movies, music, books, etc.). But beyond this convenience, I am slowly coming to see that there are some emergent aspects of using this Apple tablet. Since I have almost [...]
