Ever had a gadget that took months to learn? Companies often fall to the idea that newly designed tech gear should be the most advanced and up-to-date. This may translate to non-user friendly as Jeffery Zeldman, a web designer and entrepreneur recognizes in the article, Uncomplicated Technology, and Why It’s Always Worth Your Money, “When I started in web design, computers were for nerds, and people took pride in how difficult everything was,” but in reality, the most successful products, “haven’t been the most advanced, sophisticated or beautiful, necessarily,” he explained, “but they were the ones that understood what consumers wanted to do and enabled them to do it.”
Category: Technology
Real or Fake?
After the Equifax information breach, many of their customers were encouraged to visit a site containing consumer updates and security information. Instead of creating a page from the Equifax domain, the company spawned a new page, one that was easily copied, leaving their clients yet again at risk. Nick Sweeting, a software engineer proved this point when he created a clone of their page. His version was so convincing that a representative of Equifax even tweeted the web address (three separate times) he had created. Sweeting’s page alerted people that it was a fake since his intent was not to steal information but to spotlight the fact that Equifax had created yet another cyber hazard.
Someone Made a Fake Equifax Site. Then Equifax Linked to It.
Phone Protection?
There are a multitude of smart phone protection products on the market today. Deciding exactly what you need can be hard. The Wirecutter, the product recommendations site owned by The New York Times has narrowed the field with their top choices. Reality Check: What Does, and Doesn’t, Protect Your Smartphone. Currently debating a screen cover versus a case or possibly a protection plan versus a warranty? They have research backed answers that may help with your decision.
Look At Me Now
What does it look like to others when you use your cellphone? Ever caught yourself watching TV and checking Facebook at the same time? The photographer Eric Pickersgill explores our relationship with media in his photographic project, “Removed.” Mr. Pickersgill recruited friends, family and strangers to pose as if they were holding their phones or electronic devices. The results were both fascinating and shocking to many. Seeing themselves so focused on media instead of the person next to them, Eric and his wife created rules such as leaving their phones in the car when they go out to dinner. Both feel like they’ve gotten to know more about each other and grown closer in the last six months. Take a look for yourself and listen to his Ted Talk, then see how you feel about the part electronics play in your life.
What do you look like when you look at your electronic device?
Fire Up The Grill?
Did you know that America throws out literally tons of coffee grounds per day? Rich Bruins, a once college minister who took a group of students on mission to Guatemala, a huge coffee producer, discovered a way to re-make parts of the coffee waste. With some slight changes, he has brought his idea to the US in the form of Coffee Coals, which outperform charcoal in ignition and BTUs. Want to know more, check out the whole article, This Morning’s Coffee Grounds Could Be the Fuel to Cook Tonight’s Dinner. Ever imagine that coffee would fuel more than your caffeine addiction?
What’s your favorite flavor of pie?
Tomorrow is Pi day and I couldn’t resist throwing in a post that deals both with numbers and a tasty treat. So, what will you be doing tomorrow on 3.14.15 at 9:26:53? I’m thinking a nice quiche would be good in the a.m. and then a big old piece of buttermilk pie for in the evening. There is no call for using Pi, 3.14159 in accounting…, but this still counts as a math related post, right? Enjoy your pie day and this article with a little history of both Pi and Pie. After all, this kind of Pi day only happens once every century!
Throwback Thursday | The Pi Day of the Century
Feeling the Candy Crush?
How many hours have you spent playing games on your phone? These simple, mind-numbing, thumb cramping challenges are always popping up inviting us to checkout from life. Sometimes what feels like just a few minutes is actually hours. Imagine what you could do with an extra 1400 hours!
What else could I have done with 1,400 hours?
DIY Just Got A Whole New Meaning
The world of credit card fraud is big business and with “buyers” willing to pay fifty plus dollars per card number, why would the cyber thieves want to stop? The industry has grown in such mega-proportions, taking down large retailers like the Target. But the Target breech of last December, which was detected in three weeks, has nothing on the current scheme that is being linked to Home Depot and may have been happening since April. One of the nations largest do-it-yourself retailers obviously needs some better ‘tools’ for protection.
Take that, Yodle
Although I am not promoting AutomatedSocialNetworking3.0 (ASN), Yodel telemarketers were so rude to me today that I found this ASN YouTube video about Yodel. Here you go:
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