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I’ve noticed people have been saying things like “I am cloud computing because my mail is now on gmail ZOMG”. Storing your mails on the internets is not cloud computing, it’s just online storage. Uploading pics from your phone directly to the web is not cloud computing. Google docs is not cloud computing. Just storing [...]
I got another cold call today from an Indian IT outsourcing company, despite that it says not to cold call me on my linked-in profile (which I’m sure is the place they harvested my contact information from). Besides being extremely annoying, I wonder if this strategy actually works for them?
How many times have you cold [...]
Many people report lost followers on twitter today. Numbers range from a few to hundreds. I seem to have lost about a hundred followers and a hundred from my following list. Hopefully they were all spam bots :-)
Imagine you walk into a room and there is clutter everywhere, things all over the floor, the walls are covered with random artwork hung at every height imaginable. You would start feeling uncomfortable and overloaded very quickly. Yet we do this to our users every day by not paying attention to the very basics.
There are [...]
This is a public service announcement to users of bluehost.com hosting. They store your account password in plain text. During my long drawn out battle where they refused to own up to database problems, one of the support calls resulted in the support woman asking me for my password. When I refused to give it [...]
While twitter is out repairing its architecture, they seem to have turned off the track feature. track used to be an incredibly useful feature that is very well hidden as a twitter command instead of a part of their UI (epic design fail, or maybe they want it this way). Here’s how to use a [...]
When I first got online in 1993, there wasn’t a whole lot to the web. In fact, I remember that year or shortly thereafter, buying a book called the Internet Yellow Pages. This book basically listed all the best sites on the web in something like 300 pages. Imagine how ridiculous this concept is today–yet [...]
In this post I’m going to try to explain in simple terms how a camera meters, and why you should take control of metering to achieve good shots.
Your meter is calibrated to produce the correct exposure for average scenes.
As it turns out, a good rule of thumb for average scenes is a particular shade [...]
It seems after In/Out (aka Backpack Journal) came out, there have been at least a few clones.
I created an app (actually long before in/out) called WFH (Working From Home), a way to quickly share status with your coworkers. You can pick your status from a dropdown for every day of the coming week, and [...]
The term Cloud Computing is on the rise according to google trends. But what does it all mean? Just like “Web 2.0″ it’s an overloaded phrase with tons of connotations and many attempts at definition. While perusing a cloud blog by James Urquhart, I was inspired to try to define the term myself. So here’s [...]
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