I have been doing more mobile web sites recently. My preference has been to use responsive design that allows for any display size. The display size can range from Desktop, TV, tablet or phone. However, I have found it is important to know your target audience and also do testing. Not all browsers are understanding of the @media and HTML5 components. …
I hate toolbars on my browsers. I despise unwanted software, this is why I was very upset recently with a java update that was being installed on my wife’s computer. For some reason the most recent version of Oracle Java has added the McAfee Security Scan into it’s install. I am not sure if it was a java update or the …
I realized that I’m not that up today with my news. I don’t watch the evening news and I don’t typically read any papers during the week. Maybe I’m just behind the times. The news I do read / watch is technical news and world news. I get this from Flipboard . I also subscribe to the local paper, the Sunday …
I just watched the trailer for Red Dawn (a remake). I’m torn. First off, how could they make a remake. Second, why would you do such a thing? I can see a sequel, but a remake. So what is even more scary than the review I read, is that I can tell you that I plan on going to see this …
I launched a new theme on the site 2 weeks ago. I Mentioned at the time a new technology. I have switched to a responsive design theme. If you are not familiar with responsive design it is: (wiki pedia) Responsive Web Design (RWD) essentially indicates that a web site is crafted to use Cascading Style Sheets 3 media queries, an extension …
I was reading an article on gigaom regarding how bandwidth is getting cheaper. http://gigaom.com/2012/08/02/guess-what-bandwidth-is-getting-cheaper/ The article was not about our home or business bandwidth but rather IP transit costs. The cost to move data from one location to another (overseas). The reference the value from a business perspective, if that business buys a lot of bandwidth. Companies like netflix, google, etc… …
I got this post in an email from a co-worker. I thought the insight into Yahoo was interesting. Some of the comments were great and really hit home. http://sriramk.com/unsolicitedyahoo.html Every company has issues, and some of these are pretty fun to read about.
I recently went to a new ice cream shop in our town. Having 4 kids often requires you to visit fun places like this. It also calls for a fairly expensive ice cream visit. The new place was great, the owner was nice and even gave us some free samples. The one thing that caught me was the use of an …
This is a great article on what works when developing a mobile app. The team from Pocket Lists http://www.1312.ru/Pocket-Lists-sales-13500-in-first-3-months/ This is a great story of how to make money on an app. (see this clip of the article) Category: Productivity (to-do & checklist app) Price: initially priced at $4.99, then settled to $1.99 Developed in: 10 months from scratch to version …
Dell has just launched a developer focused laptop. The cool thing about this version is that it runs Ubuntu (linux) and is on a 13 inch laptop. (check out the hardware here) The article that I found regarding this was focused on the Sputnik project. I think this is a great start. I’m a fan of small portable computing and the …
I was reading flip board app this morning and ran across this article from techcrunch – http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/05/study-61-of-u-s-households-now-have-wifi/ A study shows that 61% of US households have wifi. The US is lower on the list 8th behind the UK and places like Germany. I thought that 61% is a pretty good number. From a security perspective I wonder what percentage of those …
I have often been with group of people and need to share some type of wireless. Frequently I’ve used my phone (iPhone 4 – Jailbroken) and myWi (http://intelliborn.com/mywi.html). However, I have not recently jailbroke my phone after the last update. The main reason I have ever jailbroke a phone was for this feature (a mobile hotspot). In the case where I …
There are a few great posts on the web on how to speed up your phone. I won’t try to re-create them. I personally like the version from lifehacker and the few links they have related to Battery life and settings http://lifehacker.com/5897438/how-to-speed-up-clean-up-and-revive-your-iphone Overall, the idea is to disable anything that is continuously talking or communicating to the web. Basically, notifications and …
I’m always checking the number of devices on my network. I have a guest wireless that I have in the past let neighbors use. Since then I have cut them off, but left the network on to see who attaches. For a while I had my pineapple setup to do a rickroll on anyone who connected. Nmap makes it easy to …
UPDATE – Since writing this pfsense has added a package install of SARG. I recommend an updated tutorial of this post – SARG and Pfsense V2. Here is a tutorial on how to setup SARG (http://sarg.sourceforge.net/) – Squid Analysis Report Generator on Pfsense. If you don’t know what any of those words meant then here are some references. SQUID – (www.squid-cache.org): …