Very cool method of providing haptic feedback to a touch display without the use of vibration or surface deformation. It uses changes in an electromagnetic field to alter the attraction of your finger...
Read More →From Disney Research, here is some very cool research into techniques to provide some rather advanced recognition capability to normal objects and to enhance the variety of gestures that a normal touch device...
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Time Machine is a fantastic backup tool, but to keep it from being a resource hog, you might want to consider excluding the folders listed below. This all began with me wondering...
Read More →I just love stories like this. WiFi hackers Inveneo have utilized mesh network technologies for a novel solution to a unique problem. The problem? Rural farmers and herders in Africa (and other areas...
Read More →The following is a straighforward guide toward setting up IMAP access in Apple Mail 4 with a Google Gmail account (Mac OS 10.6 Snow Leopard). I have tried a ton of different configurations,...
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This technique allows you to use the built in Macintosh Time Machine app to backup a Mac OS 10.6 Snow Leopard machine to a Windows 7 network shared drive wirelessly. Through trial and...
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File 2009′s SMSslingshot under “fun stuff that gets people interacting with each other”. Interesting project, although for texting, I would have gone with a QWERTY keyboard over an old school triple-click key pad. ...
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For many years I have emailed files to myself, copied them to thumb drives, and cobbled together my own FTP syncing scripts. All very complicated and error prone. Enter 3rd-party syncing services –...
Read More →OK, so maybe it isn’t REALLY the end of the world. But the following article echoes the sentiment that the number and speed of modern communication channels reduce focus and enable procrastination. Researchers...
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