You may have noticed the new look around here. GregsHead.net is now a WordPress blog, and is sporting a new customized template, and a couple neat, new plug-ins. Jen and I spent probably most of an hour tonight making use of the related posts plug-in. It was so fun! We were looking up an old…
Technology
Bits vs Bites … Scam
I have already learned that there is a difference between a bit and a byte. That’s why when you buy a hard drive that says it’s 1 TB … you’re actually only getting 976.56 GB. Or something like that. Because one kilobyte is 1024 bits, and one megabyte is 1024 kilobits, etc. For some reason…
Pranav Mistry: The thrilling potential of SixthSense technology
Wow. This is really amazing. I actually love the story behind it, too. (He shows you how he developed the ideas.) But the demos of it doing what it does… incredible interaction of digital and physical world. Worth the 15 minutes to watch!
Deposit @ Home: Electronic banking the way it should be?
While listening to an episode of MacBreak Weekly, one of their frequent tangents took them to a service offered by a bank that I hadn’t ever heard of: deposit from home. As a self-employed web design guy, I often get payments in the form of checks. The craziest thing in the world to me is…
A World Without Skype?
In other news… the amazing little internet telephony app Skype could be in serious trouble. With a court date set for June 2010 according to this article, there is a good possibility that there may be no Skype after that date. There appear to be questions as to who owns what. Hopefully they can be…
Mac OS X Snow Leopard (10.6) : Available August 28th!
Apple announced yesterday that their latest version of Mac OS X will be available for purchase this Friday, August 28th! The OS dubbed “Snow Leopard” will mostly streamline the current OS, Leopard, even down to the start up and shutdown time. Also, it takes up much less space on your hard drive. The software will…
The Itch
It’s happening again. I never really know why. It just happens. It’s time to change up my websites. All three of my main websites. For some reason I have new ideas for this blog (cool ones, actually!) and my web design site, and our music site. All three will actually be a bit simpler (maybe…
Tivo for your Radio: radioSHARK by Griffin
Today I wanted to bring you another product recommendation. I don’t do that very often, so hopefully that gives a little more weight to my recommendations. For a few years we have enjoyed the benefits of a Tivo DVR for recording, pausing, rewinding and really all of our television consumption. It’s fantastic. Really. Can’t recommend…
Space Exploration in the News?
Saw this interesting article today. I used to talk about cool things we were learning from and doing in space… until I got too busy! :-) Have been cutting back on the schedule though, and hoping to have more time to read and pass along things I read, AND even write some of my own…
Instant Message, Facebook, Texting and Twitter
Recently I was pondering this crazy social and technological trend our society has taken toward communicating in short bits of strangely coded information. We no longer speak to each other in the English language. We’ve shortened it to strange acronyms or just improperly spelled words (often incorporating numerals) and we’ve also limited ourselves to 140…