Category Archives: Computers

The Internet Is Faster – Just Not In The US

By C.G. | Published: April 18, 2010

Living in New York City, I am fortunate to have fairly fast internet; I think my officially marketed speed is 30mpbs down with real world speeds near 22mbps+. But the rest of the nation isn’t so lucky. Broadband penetration is weak in many areas of the country and, let’s face it, is laughably described as [...]

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Apple’s Genius

By C.G. | Published: April 15, 2010

Slashdot points us to a brilliant article by Steve Cheney who believes the real reason why Apple has forced developers to write applications in their native XCode isn’t because of Adobe’s Flash. He argues that Apple made the changes to the iPhone OS License Agreement to enhance application and, therefore, platform performance while maintaining architecture [...]

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Cool Data Visualizations

By C.G. | Published: February 21, 2010

From Google Buzz, founder & CEO of Seesmic, Loic Le Meur, shared a recent Harvard Business Review article discussing the visualization of Twitter’s stream. Its a fascinating read just for the inferences one can get from the data. The article uses different trend analysis projects like Twitter Spectrum, TwitterVenn, and StreamGraphs to highlight comparisons between [...]

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Big Buck Bunny

By C.G. | Published: February 20, 2010

How did I not hear of this sooner? Big Buck Bunny is an open source movie! Released under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license, BBB is an HD quality short film created entirely out of open source software. A team of animators were flown to Amsterdam in October 2007 and only seven months later, the [...]

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Street Fighter IV: iPhone Edition

By C.G. | Published: February 20, 2010

When I was a kid, I wasn’t very good at most video games. I don’t know if I never paid attention to the gameplay as much as the others or if I just wasn’t skilled enough. When I became a teenager and hung out at the local arcade place (Spaceport, I think was the name [...]

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