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...]
Demo of Windows 10 ink features
Microsoft published a Windows Ink demo as the feature we saw at the Build conference is released to the Windows 10 Insiders fast ring today. The new pen experience is coming in the Windows 10 Anniversary Update this Summer. If you're an Insider, you can see the feature across apps like Maps, Edge, Office, Sticky Notes, and others with the cool new straight-edge … [Read more...]
Grandkids equal free tech support
Ally Bank has a commercial out that passes the baton to the next generation. Grandkids = free tech support. These grandparents are more excited to get their tech fixed than to see their grandchildren. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aL2wal9Wp-E Well, perhaps the "tech support" is not quite free. In the blog post accompanying the ad, Ally provided an invoice to request … [Read more...]
Uptime Funk parody of ‘Uptown Funk’ from SUSE Linux
Uptown Funk featuring Bruno Mars has a classic sound. This parody, made for SUSECon 2015, takes the pop song and changes the lyrics to discuss uptime and patching your servers without rebooting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYRlTISvjww The production quality is very high and they don't stop there. SUSE Linux made another parody of Maroon 5's 'Sugar' at the same … [Read more...]
Mozilla encourages the public to stand up for encryption
Mozilla is raising concerns of government attacks on accessibility to encryption for the public. Governments look to make encryption illegal or punish companies utilizing the technology. Mozilla hopes for everyday users to realize the importance of encryption through their public education encryption campaign. This video shows some the headlines telling of those efforts against … [Read more...]