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28 crucial checks to make before launching your Web site
Every day you come across Web sites that are just plain wrong. Either they’re over-designed with way too much going on or they look like someone built the site with their eyes closed. And even if...
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A dozen real desks of a dozen real techies
"Image by Jeffrey BeallGo on, look at your desk … is it a nice, neat, clean with everything in its place workspace or is it an everything out of its place including a cat and even the kitchen sink if...
View ArticleSpliddit: Algorithms to divide the rent, stuff, or credit fairly between people
I’ve gone out for lunch with Bob, Carol, Ted, and Alice and now it’s time to settle the bill. I only had a chicken salad and a soda but Bob had a steak and a beer, Carol had the pasta special and a...
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7 tips for speeding up OS X Yosemite (and a last resort if they don’t work)
YosemiteImage by AppleYou might still be nervous, as many of my friends are, about upgrading to Apple’s latest release of OS X, version 10.10, otherwise known as “Yosemite.” Being the foolhardy user I...
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10 Chrome extensions for developers
Hooked on Google ChromeImage by GoogleAs I mentioned in a recent Gearhead post, I’ve become hooked on Google’s Chrome browser. But as good as it is, like all software that becomes part of our routine...
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The 12 gifts of Techmas
Gifts that geeks will loveYes, it’s that time of year when techies go to bed dreaming of gadgets, wall warts and blinking LEDs. In this roundup I have 12 gifts that any geek worth his salted hash would...
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Seven killer Linux apps that will change how you work
Linux productivity toolsThe sheer number of Linux apps available today is mind boggling and one category in particular has exploded over the last few years … productivity tools. While there are a few...
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Spaced out tech auction: 8 vintage space items go on the block
Saturn V Launch Vehicle Digital Computer (LVDC) Memory ModuleImage by RR Auction It’s not often that vintage space memorabilia becomes available, but if you have any money left after paying your taxes...
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9 chatbot-building tools
Chatbots can smooth customer queries, if you build themImage by ThinkstockCustomer service is expensive. The more complex the product, the more it costs to deliver a great customer experience. Yet it...
View ArticleREVIEW: 6 enterprise-scale IoT platforms
There's little need to tell anyone in IT that the Internet of Things (IoT) is a big deal and that it's growing insanely fast; BI Intelligence estimates that there will be some 23.3 billion IoT devices...
View ArticleRevisiting Comcast's Xfinity public hotspot strategy
Last week I wrote about Comcast's plan to build the nation's biggest Wi-Fi service by co-opting their customers' Xfinity gateways and, following a detailed conversation with a representative from...
View ArticleRevisiting Comcast's Xfinity public hotspot strategy
Last week I wrote about Comcast's plan to build the nation's biggest Wi-Fi service by co-opting their customers' Xfinity gateways and, following a detailed conversation with a representative from...
View ArticleAnd there's something else wrong with Comcast's Xfinity customer-based Wi-Fi...
I have, in previous Gearhead articles (first in Comcast's latest bad idea turns your Wi-Fi into everybody's Wi-Fi and then in Revisiting Comcast's Xfinity public hotspot strategy), discussed Comcast's...
View ArticleHistorical computing: The launch of the IBM System/360
In 1964 IBM announced one of the most famous mainframes ever, the IBM System/360 which, on the low end versions ran at 0.0018 to 0.034 MIPS. For the time, that was serious performance ... in...
View ArticleRoboBees to save US agriculture ... in about 20 years
What man breaks, man can fix ... at least, that's what we like to think. Consider, for example, bees. Bees of all species are dying off in the US and Europe and over the last few years we've seen the...
View ArticleBluedriver: Vehicle data capture for geeks
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about Automatic, a dongle that plugs into your car's OBD-II connector and sends data about your car's performance and your driving via Bluetooth LE to an app on your iOS...
View ArticleUpdate on my Amazon Fire Phone review
The PR people from Amazon got in touch after I published my review of the new Amazon Fire Phone (Amazon Fire Phone: Nice but nothing to get fired up about). They had a couple of points they asked me to...
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28 crucial checks to make before launching your Web site
Every day you come across Web sites that are just plain wrong. Either they’re over-designed with way too much going on or they look like someone built the site with their eyes closed. And even if...
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A dozen real desks of a dozen real techies
"Image by Jeffrey BeallGo on, look at your desk … is it a nice, neat, clean with everything in its place workspace or is it an everything out of its place including a cat and even the kitchen sink if...
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9 chatbot-building tools
Chatbots can smooth customer queries, if you build themImage by ThinkstockCustomer service is expensive. The more complex the product, the more it costs to deliver a great customer experience. Yet it...
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