Learning to play an instrument is challenging; the progress in the early stages is slow, and the exercises that help you learn are boring and tedious. It’s largely for this reason that so many people give up on their chosen instrument before they reach vaunted rock star status. So, to combat this drop-out problem,...
I recently went on a camping trip with a close friend of mine for his bachelor party, and most of the guys there were diehard geeks. The interesting thing was the different views we all had on whether or not we should have our iPhones (and the one poor Blackberry) on us during the...
UPDATED Yes, it has really been five years since a teenage girl called Bree Avery uploaded her first video on YouTube. Bree continued to upload videos almost daily in the following months, buddying up with the YouTube community and sharing everyday moments of teenage angst. Check out that very first video one more time:...
Many recent headlines have been devoted to Facebook’s focus on the HTML5 markup language, and specifically on an internal HTML5-based project at the company dubbed “Project Spartan.” But the amount of buzz seems to be taking Facebook a bit by surprise. That may be because Facebook’s investment in HTML5 is nothing new — and...
Google Chrome first launched on September 1, 2008. The very next day, someone filed a “bug” report on the Chromium project page stating the following: There is no option for a print preview. I think that this is needed so that you can see what the page will look like before wasting paper and...
The leaking of Facebook continues. Following our stories yesterday about their new Photos mobile app and “Project Spartan” (a new mobile app platform), Nick Bilton of The New York Times reports that Facebook will soon release an iPad app. Yes, finally. We had also heard in recent weeks that despite Facebook’s seemingly anti-iPad stance,...
Visit the Qwest resource center for relevant briefs and reports to help you better manage your enterprise. Learn how security threats can be mitigated by implementing layers of control in this brief from Qwest: Five Network Security Threats and How to Protect Your Business Data collected from customers is routinely anonymized and then sold...
Air travel promises to become cleaner, if industry actions ahead of the huge, annual Paris Airshow are any indication… Branson Still Backing Biofuels Virgin America— a company that’s been reporting on its own greenhouse gas emissions since 2009— ordered $1.4 billion worth of new, super fuel-efficient engines from CFM International the companies announced on Wednesday....
On the heels of some major search improvements earlier this week, Google has announced another round of search-related updates today – this time to its “related search” feature. On the surface, these changes are simply meant to make the display of related queries much easier for users to navigate. Starting today, if you perform...
Among the joys of web work is the freedom to create a more porous boundary between your personal and working life. Need to pop out to take your kids to swim lessons in the middle of the day? If you’re a web worker, that’s not a problem. Or conversely, if you have a huge...