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Author Archives: michael
Escape from PDF
My second least favorite file format on the internet is .pdf. Just so happens that it is from the same creator of my least favorite file format, .swf, Adobe. I avoid the two file formats as much as I can, … Continue reading
Google Mechanical?
While working on a project to monitor energy use in a commercial office building, I was researching some of the current products in the space. I looked at some very compelling solutions for energy metering and monitoring. The basic idea … Continue reading
Ubiquitous Computing
I am on a job site this week working on a few projects. Preparing for the trip, I realized how all of the workstations I usually work on are desktops. My systems are so synchronized that I simply never used my … Continue reading
CAPTCHA reCAPTCHA!
As I was putting a CAPTCHA on a web application I am developing, I realized what a pain spammers are to the rest of society. I try to make signing up as easy as possible for the web applications I … Continue reading
To OpenID or not to OpenID
I have always been a fan of OpenID, the decentralized authentication servcie for single log on. Keeping up with multiple usernames and multiple passwords for the sites I access can be a hassle. OpenID allows you to have one username … Continue reading
Motorola Droid vs. UT Starcom XV6700?
Ok, it sounds like an odd comparison, but it is actually quite interesting. I’ve had my XV6700 since early 2006. It served me quite well until the 4th quarter of 2009 when it was replaced by the Motorola Droid (the … Continue reading
It’s all coming together.
I was researching Event Management software for a client. Event Management software generally handles things like ticketing, reservations, and registration for a Conference or Event. One vendor, ServiceU, had this feature: EventU Green™ is an add-on package to our popular EventU online … Continue reading
Google Voice Open For Business
The transition from GrandCentral to Google Voice is now complete. GrandCentral was founded in 2005 as a way to use one phone number to connect many different devices. Google purchased GrandCentral in 2007 and finally opened the project back up … Continue reading
OpenDNS Defends The Family
We’ve been long time users of OpenDNS. For many years they have been saving us from really bad DNS servers from Verizon, Comcast, et al. Their CacheCheck has saved us many hours debugging servers. However, their latest offering is clearly … Continue reading
Scratch Programming
It saddens me when I see the younger generations using technology, but not understanding it. They were raised with computers, cell phones, Droids, iPads, and every gaming system you can think of, but most of them don’t really grasp how … Continue reading
