The New York Times has a bewildering panoply of options for reading the paper digitally, including an almost-unknown but very awesome "Replica Edition" in which each page of the daily paper appears exactly as it does in print. (Hat tip to Dan Okrent for telling me about that, as I almost certainly ...
QuickBooks Online with Mac for Small Business
I just switched our office to QuickBooks Online for our accounting. It's one of these new categories of applications called "cloud services" (because everything runs on a server off in the cloud somewhere; you're not running actual software on your machine). This category is also referred to as ...
Amazon Fire Phone: Better than the iPhone?
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 ...