In the quest to keep you, dear reader, entertained and informed I undertake extensive research to find what's hot, interesting and useful. This means that I spend a lot of time looking at "stuff" of which only a small fraction of the "really good stuff" gets published.
Amanda Palmer, known to her fans by the soubriquet "Amanda ****** Palmer" and wife of noted author Neil Gaiman, raised almost $1.2 million on Kickstarter back in May.
The ship early, patch often philosophy has put real programming and programmers on the endangered list
These projects are at opposite ends of the computing spectrum and they are both hot!
Gibbs follows up on his column from two weeks ago wherein he claimed " I think I know just what might be the smart [social media] tubes of the future.
I've checked out many iPad stands over the last few months and I just found what I think is one of the very best: The Uprise 360 produced by Hub Innovations. This is a dead simple design which your iPad (version 2 or 3) snaps into and you can rotate it to portrait or landscape as required. It's easy to remove the iPad when you need to and that's it ... as I said, it's dead simple and does the job. For $39.95 the Uprise 360 produced by Hub Innovations Uprise 360 gets a Gearhead rating of 5 out of 5.
Is there any organization or company that can resist surreptitiously tracking its customers?
Security firm Sophos today apologized for wreaking havoc in its customers' networks after a faulty update to its anti-virus software yesterday caused false positives for certain malware to occur on Windows-based computers.
Today's major social media providers have a problem: How to make money, can they find the unicorn?
If there's one thing that annoys me it's the obsessive miniaturisation of electronic products. Although I don't have anything like RSI or arthritis or poor motor skills, with most teeny digital devices my fingers become inaccurate banana-like appendages stabbing at the minuscule keys with a success rate of maybe 50 per cent at best.
A new technology will make it ridiculously easy to see if you are carrying or have consumed drugs or touched or have explosives on you.
Gibbs has some more gear that makes travel better and finally (he hopes) has fixed his iMac.
There comes a point in many situations where you have to recognize that the cat is not only out of the bag, it has stolen your wallet and your car keys and has taken the I-15 to Vegas.
Gibbs just got back from his summer holiday and he took a load of gadgets with him ...
Your organization does stuff. You buy things, you make things from the things you bought, you write things, you send out invoices for things you've sold ... there are thousands of things you do and these procedures are what drives your business.