If you're unfamiliar with Spotify, it's a subscription music service that lets you listen to all the music you want with either Pandora-like "channels" customized to your taste based on the music you like, or almost any specific album you can think of, without having to purchase it. There's a free ...
Good Googling
Love 'em or hate 'em, Google is an inextricable part of our lives. While they have many compelling and interesting services (many not always fully baked), the best thing they do, in my opinion, is the same thing they originally did: search. Here are some tips for good searching: You shouldn't ever ...
Great, great speakers
I bought AudioEngine 2 speakers for my desk here at IvanExpert world headquarters, and they are awesome. They're small, great-looking, and above all, incredible sounding for their size, at least when you're sitting in front of them. I recommend the little wedge stands as well. I have these plugged ...
Raspberry Pi right now!
A computer I sort of think of as the Apple II of today is the Raspberry Pi, a tiny $35 computer designed for education. It's just...inspiring and fun. If you've got a Pi, you can check out this stuff I've made for it. (Some of these can actually be useful for non-Pi purposes too, if you know what ...
Top 10 from New York Tech Day
I went to New York Tech Day last week and here are the 10 most interesting things I saw. (I haven't tested all of them, so do your due diligence as always before signing up for something.) 1) Two high school girls made an app for Android called Arrive, which they billed as "attendance at your ...
CrashPlan and Java 7 on the Mac
CrashPlan is excellent cloud backup software. However, one issue it has is that it depends on Java, which is a transitional state on Macs. On Macs, CrashPlan is designed to work with Java 6, which is included with Snow Leopard, and downloaded from Apple if needed on Lion and Mountain Lion. One ...