Posts in "Tech"
Corporate communications at its finest
Cox Communications isn’t great at, well, communicating.
Game changer: Flip Video
How the Flip Video is turning the amateur video recording industry on its head.
The G-rated Internet
Nic highly recommends OpenDNS if you have children who use the Internet.
Review: JPod
Douglas Coupland continues the exploration of the lives of tech workers he started in Microserfs.
Review: On Intelligence
Very interesting book about how intelligence works and the challenges we face in trying to build intelligent machines.
The winged messenger swoops in
Version control is a necessity for staying sane. Nic looks at some options.
Firefox downloading PDFs to Lexmark folder
A solution to a weird Firefox glitch is proffered to the altar of Google.
Shiny Crescent
Nic moves his site to a new server. Excitement! Drama! Jazz hands!
The end of the Y
Nic sings the praises of the local YMCA where he sent his daughter to preschool and the Reggio Emilia method.
Review: The Digital Photography Book
Will help improve the quality of your photographs.
Life in the cloud
Keeping data in sync between different computers and different people is tricky. Nic looks at some ways it can be done.
The fairy princess Wii
Fairytopia rips off the Wii mote and it actually doesn’t suck.
Car alarm yadda yadda
Nic gets stuck in customer service hell when he replaces the fob to his car alarm.
Wii first impressions
Nic’s family scores a Wii. Here are his first impressions.
Doing it for free
Why the first job for any technology company is to make their product easy to use.
All your podcasts are belong to us
Nic puts an iPod connector in his car and his life is changed forever.