A library that measures how bad the platform got
A JavaScript library that mostly wraps things the browser already does has become close to universal in about two years, and the…
Twitter’s outages are Rails’ problem now, whether that’s fair or not
Ruby on Rails made a specific promise when it showed up a few years back: skip the boilerplate, follow the conventions, and…
Apple is the company most likely to kill the iPod
Apple holds something like seventy percent of the music player market and is the company most likely to end it. The device…
Your photographs know where you sleep
Photographs have carried hidden text for years. Camera model, shutter speed, aperture, the date and time down to the second. It sits…
Encrypted mail is worth nothing to one person
Strong email encryption has been freely available since 1991. Seventeen years later, essentially nobody uses it, and the usual explanation is that…
The “quit your job and blog” advice is a survivorship bias trick
The circulating advice to quit a job and start a blog for financial success is misleading. While some blogs generate significant revenue,…
Redundancy is not a backup
The home storage boxes now on sale are advertised with redundancy as the headline, and a great many people are reading that…
A court is deciding whether your DVR recording lives in your house or theirs
Cablevision aims to offer a cloud-based DVR service that records shows in its data center, arguing it functions like traditional home recording.…
The lecture was always the loss leader
Universities are putting lecture recordings online for nothing, and this is being described as a threat to universities. It is not, because…
A USB stick is small enough to lose and big enough to end a career
Memory sticks, capable of storing vast amounts of sensitive data, pose significant security risks when misplaced. Government departments frequently lose confidential information,…
E3 2008: Microsoft Announces Xbox 360 Dashboard Overhaul With Avatars and Netflix Streaming
Microsoft unveiled a comprehensive Xbox 360 dashboard overhaul at E3 2008, introducing an avatar system modeled after Nintendo’s Miis alongside a transformative…
E3 2008: Square Enix Shocks Industry With Final Fantasy XIII Multiplatform Announcement
Square Enix delivered one of E3’s most unexpected bombshells during Microsoft’s press conference, announcing Final Fantasy XIII will launch simultaneously on Xbox…
Apple iPhone 3G Debuts with GPS, 3G Connectivity, $199 Entry Pricing
Apple released the iPhone 3G on July 11, 2008 featuring integrated GPS receiver, 3G cellular data connectivity supporting faster download speeds, and…
Apple Launches App Store with 500 Applications, Establishing iOS Third-Party Development Ecosystem
Apple launched App Store on July 10, 2008 alongside iPhone 3G release introducing curated digital distribution platform enabling third-party iOS application installation…
Your RAW photos might be unreadable in twenty years
Camera manufacturers create proprietary RAW file formats, limiting long-term accessibility of older files. Adobe proposed DNG, an open format, to mitigate risks…