Archive for the ‘tech’ Category

FYI: The Cofounder Of 23andMe’s Next Project: Mining Your Quantified Self

Sunday, April 6th, 2014

Cofounder Of 23andMe’s Next Project: Mining Your #QuantifiedSelf. @lindaavey’s @WeAreCurious creates a forum for this
http://www.fastcoexist.com/3027630/the-cofounder-of-23andmes-next-project-mining-your-quantified-self

The Face Behind Bitcoin – Newsweek

Saturday, April 5th, 2014

The Face Behind #Bitcoin. Satoshi Nakamoto, hiding in plain sight w. >$100M. Interesting to read his strenuous denial
http://mag.newsweek.com/2014/03/14/bitcoin-satoshi-nakamoto.html

High-Tech Solutions for House and Apartment – NYTimes.com

Tuesday, April 1st, 2014

High-Tech Solutions for House & Apartment: Your home tweeting its temperature, the future internet of things
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/09/realestate/high-tech-solutions-for-house-and-apartment.html #sensors

What Happens When Amazon and Google Go to War? — Daily Intelligencer

Tuesday, April 1st, 2014

What Happens When Amazon and Google Start a Price War Over the Future of the Internet? Large #AWS price cut!
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/03/what-happens-when-amazon-and-google-go-to-war.html $GOOG

RoomScan creates floor plans automatically – TUAW

Monday, March 24th, 2014

http://m.tuaw.com/2014/03/23/roomscan-creates-floor-plans-automatically

Alternatives to Adobe Products

Monday, March 3rd, 2014

Pixelmator (photoshop Mac alternative): http://www.pixelmator.com Has a vector mode:
http://www.pixelmator.com/blog/2013/05/14/introducing-vectormator/

Latest version of GIMP for Mac OS X does not require X11:
http://www.gimp.org/downloads/

Dreamweaver & Illustrator alternatives:
http://www.onextrapixel.com/2013/06/18/10-best-alternatives-to-adobe-dreamweaver/ http://www.onextrapixel.com/2011/03/15/10-best-alternatives-to-adobe-illustrator

http://pikimal.com/html-editor

It’s sort of like Dreamweaver for $130
http://www.artisteer.com/

How to Survive the Next Wave of Technology Extinction – NYTimes.com

Saturday, February 22nd, 2014

How to Survive the Next Wave of Tech Extinction: Use $AAPL hardware, $GOOG services, $AMZN media & connector products
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/13/technology/personaltech/how-to-survive-the-next-wave-of-technology-extinction.html

Avoid Delicious!

Jesse Willms, the Dark Lord of the Internet – Taylor Clark – The Atlantic

Monday, February 10th, 2014

Jesse #Willms, the Dark Lord of the Internet. Contains an interesting description of the nuts & bolts of web #scams
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/01/the-dark-lord-of-the-internet/355726

Infinite series: When the sum of all positive integers is a small negative fraction.

Tuesday, February 4th, 2014

Simply the Most Astonishing #Math You’ll Ever See: 1+2+3+4+… = -1/12
http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2014/01/17/infinite_series_when_the_sum_of_all_positive_integers_is_a_small_negative.html & http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1_%2B_2_%2B_3_%2B_4_%2B_%E2%8B%AF HT @Tomorrow_Lab

Larissa MacFarquhar: The Tragedy of Aaron Swartz : The New Yorker

Tuesday, January 21st, 2014

@stevenstrogatz27: David Brooks was right: This @NewYorker article about Aaron Swartz by Larissa MacFarquhar is outstanding

The Tragedy of Aaron #Swartz: Such a smart person (eg developer of RSS). Such an avoidable end.
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/03/11/130311fa_fact_macfarquhar HT @stevenstrogatz