It is interesting how luddite the world of DJing can sometimes seem considering how electronic their music is. When optical discs (or CDs) were emerging on the scene we had many DJs resisting the trend believing that CD technology makes things too easy compared to what is required to physically manipulate a vinyl record. They also romanticized about CDs removing the ability to “touch the music” that is playing like they with vinyl. I suppose they were oblivious to the fact that they weren’t quite touching the music given that Read More

According to some religious myths it is the “word of god” that created “the heaven and the earth”. Ironically, there may be some truth to the idea that “words” have so much power. There is a source code to the universe. Science is the process we use to reverse engineer it. Every new piece of the source code of the universe that we discover gives us that much more power over the universe. We can modify the source code to suit our needs and desires and build new programs to Read More

A great thing about modern smartphones is that you don’t have to settle for pre-installed apps like we once had to on our old cellphones. This makes them much like PCs, where we could always hunt down for new programs to try out. Your stock Android browser might be adequate, but there are better Android browsers out there, and Dolphin is one of them. At first sight Dolphin reminds me a lot of Chrome on desktop computers, with its tabs and main toolbar looking very similar. There is even that Read More

According to a study done by Science Express reliable and constant access to online information is affecting how we use our memory. Instead of remembering facts ourselves we remember where we can find those facts. This phenomenon was observed even before the age of the internet when people operating in groups know that they can get some information they need from specific persons in that group (someone that may be an expert on a given field). Instead of bothering to remember said information, they just remember the person from which Read More

Macs are a pretty powerful platform to compute on out of the box, but there are ways you could be taking advantage of them that you don’t even know about! Do you want to pimp your mac? Check out this collection of tips and tricks for Mac users: 1. Enable “Tap to Click” Regular laptop users click a lot. Unfortunately, the Mac trackpad requires a pretty decent amount of pressure to make a click. Mac users can bypass this by enabling the “tap to click” feature in system preferences –> Read More

Koopik has just launched their new daily deal service nationwide.  The new service aggregates daily deals from thirty-five different sources, so you visit one web site instead of dozens.  Even better, you can subscribe and have Koopik pick (or “pik”) deals for you and send them to you via one daily email. Koopik’s core strength is filtering out the deals you don’t want to see and filtering in the deals that you do want to see.  The first filtering is by location.  Once you set your location, you only see Read More

I am going to go against the conventional wisdom and predict that, not only will Google+ succeed, but that it will succeed BIG.  Here’s why. Adaptability Google has learned from its mistakes. Orkut was too kludgy to appeal to most users and lacked necessary support from the Google executive team — you can’t win at social on a small scale. Wave was too complex to explain to anyone outside the Googleplex – the elevator pitch for Wave was a slide deck.  Buzz was too tightly tied to Gmail and only Read More

Facebook's alleged declaration of war on Google and the talk about the the "link" being replaced by the "like" as the new search paradigm got me thinking about search engine optimization and the future of search engines. I have to say that I never quite liked search engine optimization because it always seemed to be so much more about doing things for the robot instead of for the human. I think that providing real value to users and the overall user experience are ultimately all that matters. Everything that falls Read More

This week was marked by the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3). Among the biggest debuts were the motion control peripherals including PlayStation Move from Sony and Kinect for Xbox 360 from Microsoft. The race is on about which of the two technologies will perform better in practice and which will be better received in the market. Of course, neither Sony nor Microsoft were first to come up with motion control. Nintendo had this nailed since the launch of Wii with its Wii remote control in 2006. They will, however, claim to Read More

" We are too busy mopping the floor to turn off the faucet." — Albert Einstein Wired on Tuesday ran an article called "Wireless Oligopoly Is Smother of Invention" pointing out how restrictive of choice the current carrier oligopoly in the US is. Ryan Singel does an excellent job in contrasting the wireless industry with the TV and Internet service provision industry to illustrate just how closed and restrictive the wireless carriers are. I can vouch that this is not the case only in the USA, but to at least Read More