Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category

Why the iPad will be a success

29 January 2010

Unless you’ve been living in a cave, you’ve undoubtedly heard about Apple’s spanking-new device: the iPad. And while this is one of the most hyped products ever—people have anticipated it possibly more than the iPhone—some have their doubts about it, even calling it an iDud. Just because they won’t be getting one. […]

Pandora

10 August 2009

Pandora is an Internet radio station that plays only music that you should like, based on your music profile. Based on a comprehensive analysis of music, Pandora accurately matches songs similar to the user’s taste.

Hyphenation

7 August 2009

Often, when you read a website, the page has one of two problems: either the text is too wide or the text is too narrow. Here’s how to solve at least one of those problems when reading material on the Web.

Computer trouble

15 July 2009

Unfortunately my entire Linux partition was wiped because of that, and when a Linux partition goes, the GRUB loader fails, making the entire computer unusable except by a clean installation of an operating system. [read more]

BlueBehemoth.com

29 June 2009

Today is my brother Samuel’s birthday, and as a present I got him the album Wayfaring Stranger, an album of hymns played on the cello, from BlueBehemoth.com.

LaTeX & XeTeX

19 June 2009

LaTeX is a system for typesetting that’s rather difficult to set up and learn to use, but for me was well worth it. The chief reason why I like to use LaTeX for any largish document is that the results are so much better. In addition, it’s much easier to manage large documents.