Communicating in a networked world
At first when Mike Liebhold (of IFTF) pointed me at the Netshare iPhone application from Nullriver, I was hopeful that we possibly could have a "tethered iPhone." This means we could use an iPhone to allow our Mac to have access to the Internet when … [Continue reading]
My real-world mixed-reality games were originally built to depend primarily on SMS (AKA "TXT" in the US) messaging. As the years went on (I started this in 2002) I found that I had to develop the games further so they could be played by email. As … [Continue reading]
Apple Computer had already announced that there are problems with power bricks for the old PowerBook and iBook computers (now officially discontinued) - the small cord coming out of the brick (carrying low voltage) is under a lot of stress and … [Continue reading]
Automattic released their Wordpress app for the iPhone this week. Since I'm fairly mobile, I wanted to try it out. For offline blogging from a laptop computer, I already use Ecto, which gives me substantial freedom in that I can create new posts … [Continue reading]
·GlobalVoices ADVOCACY has a page they call the Access Denied Map. On it they track visually, including pop-up annotations, countries that prohibit access to web sites. The thing that made the biggest impression on me is the number of countries … [Continue reading]