Wikipedia and Reddit are turning off the lights to protest two bills that have been working in our legislative branches that would change the Internet forever as we know it. SOPA, the Stop Online Piracy Act, and PIPA, the Protect Intellectual Property Act, are bills that have been crafted and sponsored by entertainment giants like the MPAA and RIAA without input from technology … [Read more...]
A few WordPress plugins to make your blog more of a site
I was recently migrating a Joomla site and everything I saw could have been better utilized as a WordPress site. By customizing a theme, the front-end would have changed as little as possible while the back-end would have been able to enjoy the beautiful, simple and straight-forward admin dashboard of WordPress. To capture some of the functionality that the site had … [Read more...]
From CES 2012 to the Shopping List
I have been in the market for a new laptop for a little while. Between delays and the holidays, it came to be 2012 with no new laptop. Then I wanted to wait for the CES so I could see what be coming onto the market and now I wonder if it is worth it to wait until mid-2012 to get a new laptop that comes with Windows 8 and an Intel IvyBridge processor. From all the CES coverage … [Read more...]
Send your documents to Kindle with Amazon’s new software
Moving society away from such heavy reliance on paper comes at one painful inch at a time. Amazon's Kindle and other eReaders and tablets out there have certainly done a lot to assist in the cause. Amazon has made available an application for Windows that would allow you to send your personal documents to your Kindle devices. With it installed, you can either right-click a … [Read more...]
Hexadecimal Numpad eases your IPv6 conversion
IPv6 is here and it is the result of lots of hard work, deep thought, and planning ahead so we don't run into the same situation we have now with IPv4. However, one thing that was not considered in its adoption is our faithful keyboard. IPv6 expands beyond 0-9 and incorporates hexadecimal so we have to wander our keyboards for 0-9 and A-F. The shift key also gets a work out … [Read more...]