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Businesspersons vs. Engineers
We need more engineers. This is part opinion, part fact, and all true. The U.S., once leader in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) majors, is quickly falling behind. Business (and in particular, MBA) major rates keep rising. Both government and private institutions are asking for more STEM graduates, but we get business [...]
The Teknophilia Twitter Newsletter
I use Twitter a lot, it’s a great way to stay up to date and keep in touch with people. I’ve decided to make it easy for you to stay up to date with tech news without being overwhelmed by tons of unimportant details. Using paper.li, I created daily and weekly newsletters. You can either visit the page when you want, or subscribe to get them [...]
Sunday Suggestions
I write about things I find interesting. I give my opinion on topics, tips for getting things done, and share news of what’s going on in the tech industry. But what do YOU care about? This is your chance to request an article about something you don’t know about, are interested in, or think would be a good discussion topic. Either way, I’ll [...]
Losing and Backing up your Email
With the recent news of Google losing people’s email, many are looking for a way to back up their email.
There are a few easy ways to do this, and can help you sleep better at night:
Forward your email – Use a Hotmail account or some other service to keep a copy of your email on their servers.
Use a desktop client – I use Outlook, which kee [...]
Why is Borders Failing?
If you’ve been watching the news, then you probably know that Borders, one of the most well-known and visited bookstore chains, is going bankrupt. It’s closing 200 of it 642 stores, with all the stores closing being superstores. I for one have cashed in all my Borders gift cards and catching up on reading.
But why is Borders closing? Or rath [...]
How do YOU RSS?
Keeping up with the latest news is hard. You have to go to different websites, see what’s changed, and read what you find interesting. Being in the technology sector just means that the news changes even lot faster.
So how do you keep up?
If you’re like me, you probably use RSS for keeping up with the times. But even then, there are a millio [...]
In Technology, Everyone Knows You, or...
I’ve found that technology is a very polarized subject; in almost any respect. Opinions go either one way or another (Net Neutrality), reputations soar and fall, and entire companies are founded that contradict each other. But another way that technology is polarized is in the way people find out about it. Either your website is the de facto [...]
World’s fastest supercomputer b...
“A computer called Tianhe-1A, unveiled on Wednesday at a conference in Beijing, China, can run calculations faster than the previous speed leader, a computer at a U.S. lab in Tennessee.
The new computer set a performance record by crunching 2.507 petaflops of data at once. The previous leader, a computer called Cray XT5 Jaguar and located a [...]
Re-Evolution: Technology + Culture + ...
Remember when you could go to the World’s Fair and see the future? The amazing technologies, ideas, and exhibitions that were bonded by the feelings of progress, excitement, and anticipation of a better world? What happened to that? Re-Evolution is a large scale industrial art and technology festival in Los Angeles that is trying to bring ba [...]
Cloud Computing Plain and Simple
Ivan Welsh
Cloud Computing has received attention ever since it first came out, and this publicity and usage has been steadily rising ever since. What surprises me though, is that a lot of people talk about “The Cloud,” but don’t really know what it is, or what it does. Thankfully, we can learn what cloud computing is in under 5 minutes, jus [...]
Windows Media Center Customization, P...
Wade Rockett
In the first part of this segment on Windows Media Center (WMC) customization, we’ve covered how to view RSS feeds, see the Weather, and set a Sleep Timer. Now, we’ll cover two other plug-ins, RadioTime and Macrotube. The first is self-explanatory, giving you easy access to internet radio; Macrotube does the same for YouTube, Da [...]
Windows Media Center Customization, P...
Tim O’Bryan
Windows Media Center is a simple and robust media center, and is actually a pretty good piece of software that comes in all versions of Vista and Windows 8. While it does take care of all the basic things that any media center application is expected to do, it still fells a bit… lacking. Windows Media Center (WMC) seems to [...]
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