It's hard to wrap up things that don't seem to end but here are some of the biggest stories that came out of the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show today. Unfortunately, the cleanest and greatest source of information comes from Press Releases which are cold, factual, and plain, the complete opposite of the buzz CES intends to generate. From around the web, here are those … [Read more...]
Archives for January 2011
The 2011 Consumer Electronics Show – What You Need To Know and What You’ve Already Missed
The Consumer Electronics Show starts tomorrow, January 6th, and goes through January 9th. It's the largest consumer technology tradeshow in the world. In addition to various vendors announcing their latest devices that will be talked about for the rest of the year, there are also awards programs, concerts, competitions, and celebrities. For those of us that are all about the … [Read more...]
iSender, On-Demand Peer-to-Peer File Sharing
This problem arises all the time for me. A file is one place and I want it to get to another place. Say it's at home and I'm at work or a few friends want a copy of a file and it's too large to be sent as an e-mail attachment. Well, for me it's pretty easy. I open FileZilla and FTP upload the file to my server and then send them a link. This isn't the greatest solution because … [Read more...]
Read an Interview With Legendary Hacker Captain Crunch
The stuff of legend, you might have read about the hacker Captain Crunch in The Anarchist Cookbook even. Now you can read a brief interview with Mr. John Draper over at ComputerWorld. Legendary hacker John Draper is known under the alias of Captain Crunch since he used a Captain Crunch cereal whistle to make free phone calls. Draper then built the phone phreaking tool called … [Read more...]
2010 Was A Good Year For Reddit
An administrator at the popular social news site, Reddit, yesterday posted a thread titled 2010, we hardly knew ye which summarized the changes Reddit underwent last year. The biggest change of course was the phenomenal growth that the site experienced and continues to see. Monthly pageviews more than tripled from the beginning of 2010 to its end. Here are the changes that … [Read more...]