Enterprise employees have shifted from the gray and controlled world of corporate IT to the colorful Oz of consumer technologies, but according to data from an IDC/Unisys survey IT is in need of some kind of wizard to sort things out. According to dual surveys of 560 IT managers and another interviewing 2,660 employees...
This brave fellow plans on wearing this thing at Burning Man, which you may know is in the desert. I can’t think of anything I’d like to be wearing less than a full-on labcoat loaded down with PCBs, batteries, and so on. The TV plays NTSC video and it’s 160×120 (for smooth resizing of...
There’s an exhibit on display at the Museum of the City of New York currently, a series of photographs that chronicle some of the history of food carts in the Big Apple. It’s an interesting retrospective, a way to think about the “then and now” – the immigrant experience, our changing (and unchanging) dietary...
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It is an absolute, hard-and-fast law that whenever a high profile site undergoes a significant redesign, the reaction from regular readers will be one of outrage. Not puzzlement, not measured criticism, but full-on outrage — as if they’d woken up to discover that someone had crept in and rearranged the features of their wife’s...
Developer Sandro Mancuso has some words of wisdom for those of you stuck working on legacy code: change your attitude. Cursing and moaning won’t get you anywhere, so you need to learn to love working with legacy code. That may be obvious, but how does one actually make this shift in thinking? Mancuso has...
Business is all about the bottom line — ironing out inefficiencies, increasing productivity, finding ways to get or make things cheaply that you can sell high — and web work offers new ways to bolster that bottom line. By allowing managers to source talent from just about anywhere, technology makes it easy to take...
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Apple has today invited developers to begin submitting applications to the Mac App Store that are intended for use on OS X Lion, the latest version of its operating system. Lion is scheduled for release this month, so it is definitely time for developers to be getting compatible app updates into the store. OS...
Apes with assault rifles are just a bad idea: That’s the lesson 20th Century Fox wanted to convey with a viral video it published on YouTube last week. The video shows a group of soldiers from an unidentified African country having some fun with a chimpanzee. Then one of the soldiers hands the ape an...