Reading Time: < 1 minWhen 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 […]
Technology
The fog of war and the future of technology
Reading Time: 2 minI’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 minFor 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 minBack 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 minWhile 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 minI’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 minFrom 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 minSpam 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 minIt 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 […]
Facial recognition and encryption can’t be put back in the bottle
Reading Time: < 1 minThere are two topics that I hear come up repeatedly with groups trying to stop them, but I think it’s too late for both. First you have facial recognition technology, which privacy advocates are trying to stop. It’s a noble cause, for sure, but it’s likely to impossible to stop at this point. There are […]