If you would like to hear from 'the mind behind Linux', you can watch this Ted Talks interview with Linus Torvalds. He has fundamentally changed computing as so much of the Internet infrastructure runs off of Linux, Git is huge for software development, and other influences he has on the world. Check out the video embedded … [Read more...]
Steve Jobs’ journey
Steve Jobs is well known for founding Apple. This infographic plots the milestones of his life. For more details of Steve Jobs, you might check out the book Steve Jobs or Steve Jobs: The Man Who Thought Different. (Credit: Funders and Founders) … [Read more...]
Official trailer for ‘Snowden’ shows Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Edward Snowden
The official trailer for Snowden was released today. The movie will be in theaters September 16th. Academy Award®-winning director Oliver Stone, who brought Platoon, Born on the Fourth of July, Wall Street and JFK to the big screen, tackles the most important and fascinating true story of the 21st century. Snowden, the politically-charged, pulse-pounding thriller starring … [Read more...]
Dropbox demo of Project Infinite
Dropbox showed off a preview of an upcoming Dropbox feature. It will allow people to use their familiar operating system file explorer to see all of the content that they have access to without having to have a local copy on their hard drive. The cloud icon will indicate that you can open the file and stream it from the Internet. Alternatively, if you want to ensure that you … [Read more...]
A brief music video featuring mechanical keyboards
Adafruit Industries created this short music video using clickety-clack mechanical keyboards. They get better responsiveness and accuracy but I can remember offices full of these keyboards making noise. As a fast typer, they always slowed me down because I was embarrassed of how much noise I was making. Finding the music within the noise, here is the music video, which also … [Read more...]