Amazon just announced a mobile phone, which they are calling Fire Phone. Should you consider switching from your iPhone or Android? Here's the overview. What’s it cost? $199 with a 2-year contract from AT&T What’s cool about it? Here are the top 4 things that make it interesting: Point it ...
Women in Science and Tech: Stephanie Kwolek, Inventor of Kevlar
This week Stephanie Kwolek died at the age of 90. She was a chemist at DuPont and invented Kevlar, used in bulletproof vests as well as in firefighter gear, on bridges, in fiber-optic cables, and in building materials. Her work with Kevlar began in the 1960s, when there were not many women in ...
Prevent thieves from using your iPhone, iPad with Activation Lock
An article in the New York Times today discusses how the iPhone and other smartphones now have a way to make the device unusable if it’s stolen -- a so-called “kill switch.” In Apple’s iPhone and iPad, it’s called Activation Lock. It prevents other people from using your phone, turning off Find My ...
E-Waste Recycling Events This Summer
The Lower East Side Ecology Center just posted a list of new e-waste recycling events for the summer. Here's the list. Hours are 10 am to 4 pm. Brooklyn: Saturday June 14th: St Marks Ave between Underhill and Vanderbilt Ave; Prospect Heights, Brooklyn 11238 Saturday, June 21st: 5th Street, drop off ...
How to Use the Web Securely When Away from Office or Home: VPN
I just got back from a week in Beijing, China. You may know that China blocks access to many American websites, such as the New York Times. So how did I read the Times online while I was there? The solution is the same one as the one I use when I’m in Starbucks or the library, using their public ...
Printing a PDF on Multiple Sheets of Paper from My Mac
I recently had to print out a floor plan, and it needed to be big enough for me to see all the tiny details. My printer only handles 8.5 x 11” paper. So what could I do, to print the floor plan bigger? A Mac app called SplitPrint made it super easy. I opened my PDF in SplitPrint, and told ...