Reading Time: 2 min I’ve said before that I don’t think Facebook is listening to you through your phone, but the truth is perhaps much worse. The amount of detail (and information they can derive from that) is staggering. This crazy technology can be a good thing, too. I’ve thought for years that companies like Apple would find a […]
Technology
There’s room for your own island
Reading Time: < 1 min When people talk about the big companies online (like Google, Facebook, Amazon, Twitter, etc), it’s easy to think that they make up most of the internet. And while they’re indeed massive, they still only take up small chunks of space compared to the entire web. To help visualize this, Martin Vargic created a map of […]
The fog of war and the future of technology
Reading Time: 2 min I’m thrilled to have lived in the time period that I grew up in. When I was born in 1976, there was essentially no such thing as a “home computer”, much less amazing devices like cell phones, and I’ve been able to watch as technology has grown up with me. When I was young, our […]
Missive email
Reading Time: 3 min For the last few weeks, all of us at GreenMellen have been using the Missive email app and and it’s been great. Missive is an email program that works with your existing account (Gmail, Office 365, iCloud, etc) and adds some neat features. Here is a quick video that shows what it does: We aren’t […]
Electric cars are the new digital cameras
Reading Time: 2 min Back in the mid-90’s, my family got our first digital camera, a Casio QV-11. It was really neat, but took absolutely awful photos compared to film cameras. That was ok, though, because we knew what we were getting into and we knew that each model would get better and better. Plus, it was really fun […]
We’ll all become parts of a distributed power plant
Reading Time: 2 min While Tesla is known most for their cars, they also have a variety of other battery-focused products. The Tesla Powerwall, which is essentially a giant battery for your home, is one that could really reshape things going forward. The Powerwall is intended to be used with Tesla solar panels to help keep it charged, though […]
Supernatural Exercise
Reading Time: 2 min I’ve found another fun way to exercise, and so far I’ve been excited to dig into it every day. It only works for those that have an Oculus Quest (or Quest 2) VR headset, but it’s pretty neat. It’s called Supernatural — here is their promo video: The big downside to it, of course, is […]
Finding old versions of any site
Reading Time: 2 min From time to time, it can be useful (or even just fun) to find an old version of a website. Perhaps you need to grab some content from an old version of your site, or maybe you want to see how ESPN looked 15 years ago. If that’s what you need, there are a few […]
Spam makes it harder for the good stuff to shine
Reading Time: 2 min Spam is just a bad thing. We all hate it. The problem I’m finding lately is that it’s also making good things appear to be more questionable. “Why did you write about that?” A while back, I shared on my Facebook about some great new charging cables we bought for our devices around the house. […]
Averages or adjustments?
Reading Time: 2 min It can be easy to try to design something to fit “the average person”. But do you want to? Or more importantly, is it even possible? In many cases, an average may not exist. If you’re with a group of people where 50% are Christian and 50% are atheist, it’s not useful to say “the […]