Category Archives: Technology

Responding to DVD subscription decline, Netflix closes call center

Posted on October 24, 2014 by Thanos

This is as predictable as the sunrise, if there weren’t titles only available on DVD then the red envelopes would be even fewer. Netflix is closing a call center devoted to its DVD subscription business in Hillsboro, Oregon, letting go … Continue reading →

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The Best 3-D Printed Gun Yet Shoots Paper Airplanes

Posted on October 20, 2014 by Thanos

Paper Airplane Machine Gun / Papierflieger-Maschinenpistole – YouTube.

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The Internet of Things Is More Than Just a Bunch of Refrigerators

Posted on October 14, 2014 by Thanos

Harvard Business Review covers the internet of things, but everyone is probably wondering what the heck is meant when people say that. The (with a capital T and capital I) Internet of things is all of the public accessible things … Continue reading →

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Future of Braille Report- Library of Congress

Posted on July 9, 2014 by Thanos

In the early 1990’s right after the Americans with Disablities Act was signed into law I helped incorporate a Braillex screen reader / keyboard into a PC with custom mainframe applications to enable the company I worked for to hire … Continue reading →

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Vimeo’s video recording app Cameo gets indie music boost

Posted on July 9, 2014 by Thanos

This is good news from Vimeo, other video services might want to pay attention to this move. Cameo, the iPhone video recording app that Vimeo acquired in March, relaunched with a bigger focus on music Wednesday, allowing users to combine … Continue reading →

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Crunch Your IoT Data Before It Clogs the Network

Posted on June 23, 2014 by Thanos

Paul Glynn makes a good point here – for the Internet of things to be effective and efficient, some data refinement needs to take place at a local level. If you pass every measurement, second by second, you will quickly … Continue reading →

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The Demise of Spinning Disks and Other Technology Verges: Updated

Posted on June 20, 2014 by Thanos

More than a couple of years back I made predictions about spinning disks that are speedily playing out now. As SSD’s both increase in space and decrease in costs the move to adopt them in all infrastructure is accelerating. If … Continue reading →

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Apple IOS 8 adds extensions for IoT

Posted on June 9, 2014 by Thanos

The new IOS extensions are Apple’s way of trying to meld their walled garden gear into the Internet of things. Essentially Apple has to poke more holes in the garden walls if they want their devices to stay relevant and … Continue reading →

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Crop Factor with ISO & Aperture: How Sony, Olympus & Panasonic Cheat You

Posted on May 16, 2014 by Thanos

Here’s my PSA for today – if you buy one of those small sensor mirror less digital cameras or any other crop factor sensor camera then you really need to pay attention to the math & logic in this video … Continue reading →

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How to create and tailor a Smart playlist in ITUNES

Posted on May 4, 2014 by Thanos

When I do want to listen to old stuff or tunes from a certain era I use a smart playlist, and here’s how you can create and tailor them for particular decades in ITUNES. Continue reading →

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