Archive for the ‘ Technology ’ Category
One of my favorite photographers on one of my favorite photographic subjects: the tremendously elusive (thank god) nuclear fission reaction. I’ve seen various shots on cobwebsites, but to my knowledge nobody has collected them in one place. (If anyone has more or higher quality images please comment.) These impossible sights were captured by “Doc” Edgerton in [ READ MORE ]
I picked up an Arduino recently after about two years of lusting for one — just never had time. The standard first program sketch is a blinking LED (see this great Make Magazine video), but the same time I ordered the Arduino I also bought a $10 (shipped from China) 24×16 LED Matrix from Sure [ READ MORE ]
With the advent of Amazon S3 and its remarkably cheap storage costs, creating services based on scalable storage has never been so easy and inexpensive as it is today. One area where this is most apparent is the boom of network backup products. In years past, companies like Iron Mountain or EMC would have to [ READ MORE ]
I’ve been playing around with this new web app called timetoast. In essence, it allows you to create and edit flash-based timelines with pictures. It’s relatively simplistic at the moment, but I’m excited to see this sort of product in existence. I suspect they are planning collaborative features, but currently its single-user creations. A timetoast “wiki” [ READ MORE ]
Let’s take a brief look at what I would call the bottom-line total cost of ownership (TCO) of the original 8GB iPhone versus the forthcoming 8GB iPhone 3G. That is, the TCO of each iPhone with equal data (unlimited), voice (450 min), and SMS text messaging (200 txts). (Above I’ve charted the initial cost of the [ READ MORE ]
Immediately following the 3G iPhone announcement at 11:45a PST this morning, AT&T posted up a press release outlining all the great things Apple is doing for them. Oh, and they also snuck in a $10 increase for the unlimited iPhone data plan. The data price will be $30 instead of the current $20, plus voice. [ READ MORE ]
I want to take a couple of minutes and talk about how compelling the Intel Atom platform is for home servers. There has been lots of buzz around the Atom for the past few months since it’s a very low-cost, uber-power-efficient processor. The Atom can be likened to a vintage Volkswagen Beetle: low-cost and low-power [ READ MORE ]
It’s always difficult to try to gather accurate statistical data on operating system market share in the public sector. However, while Stanford University users can purchase any computer they want, they have to report their computer and OS into a database in order to access the Internet from Stanford campus. By looking at that data, [ READ MORE ]
I needed a replacement Superdrive and I’ve been really curious as to what exactly is inside the Apple Macbook Air External USB Superdrive. So I bought one for $108 at my local Apple Store and proceeded to destroy the case by opening it using metal clippers to ensure nothing inside got damaged. However, now knowing [ READ MORE ]