I’m not much of a student of architecture when it comes to design, but I’ve recently been engrossed by “McMansion Hell“.1 It’s a snarky architecture blog about ugly houses. The McMansions 101 section is extremely educational. Did you know that there are 15 different jargon terms for the construction of a window? Fascinating. Found via […]
In a somewhat “click-bait”-y title1 on Motherboard, Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai quotes the Director of Security for Android: “For almost all threat models,” Adrian Ludwig, the director of security at Android, referring to the level of security needed by most people, “they are nearly identical in terms of their platform-level capabilities.” In a short interview after a […]
Yesterday, Microsoft announced their all-in-one Surface Studio PC featuring a very clever integrated zero-force monitor arm. It reminded me of Wacom’s Cintiq line of visual graphic tablets. Now the Surface Studio isn’t cheap ($2,999 USD for the base model), but I’m actually more intrigued by the new Surface Dial that they released as an add-on accessory […]
This is a great tutorial on setting up AirVPN (can easily be applied to any VPN provider) on pfSense 2.3.x and VLANs. I had always meant to update my guide for this. I had written: NOTE: FWIW, I think you could accomplish this through VLANs [rather than static IP addresses] The author goes through the […]
Working in design and UX, my team and I are often challenged with making things more “engaging”. In other words, how do you make the user come back for more? Ian Leslie writes in, “The Scientists who Makes Apps Addictive“: Fogg called for a new field, sitting at the intersection of computer science and psychology, […]
Today was my last day at Kobo. Over the past seven years, I have forgotten more war-stories than I remember. What is left are positive memories of Kobo, née ShortCovers, bringing digital reading to the masses through our mobile apps; anytime & anyplace. It’s followed by us dreaming big and making our mark on the […]
The USA Today reports: Comcast is in talks to buy DreamWorks Animation in a multi-billion-dollar deal, The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg are reporting. The cost of the deal would be more than $3 billion, according to both news organizations, citing unnamed sources. Jeffrey Katzenberg, CEO of DreamWorks Animation, has been searching for a buyer […]
From the Guardian’s piece called, “Microsoft to unify PC and Xbox One platforms, ending fixed console hardware“: During a press event in San Francisco last week, Spencer said that the Universal Windows Platform, a common development platform that allows apps to run across PC, Xbox, tablets and smartphones, would be central to the company’s gaming […]
I’ve been looking at the MEAN.io stack technologies (it seems like the new hotness) and I can see this being the underlying the language for the “Internet of Things”. IoT is a term that has slowly crept up into the consumer marketplace displacing the “home automation” trend, but its been in use in many other […]
The big story of CES 2016 was the outstanding Virtual Reality demos by Oculus, HTC, and Samsung. A lot of stuff on the technology and how amazing it is has already been written, but I wanted to touch upon some of the user adoption issues that I think these companies need to overcome in order to […]
