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 ...
What is a Mac server?
It used to be that a Mac server was something only a systems administrator would ever want to go near. It was a special, expensive version of Mac OS X -- for example, Snow Leopard Server cost $500, as opposed to $129 for the regular version of Mac OS X. And the updates had to be supplied separately, ...
Keeping iPhone apps organized
iPhone app management is, to put it bluntly, a mess. Once you get more than a couple of screens' worth of apps, you start having difficulty keeping track of what's where, and resort to using Spotlight to find an app you want to launch. And even though you can create folders, they all look similar, ...
Microtrenching — it’s the new technique for internet
This is super cool -- rather than having to dig a big tunnel in the street to run cables, a new technique called microtrenching cuts a narrow groove for smaller cables like fiber optics for internet. One of the problems with Verizon FiOS in NYC is its relative lack of availability; that may change ...
5 Tips on How to Give a Great Corporate iPhone or iPad Presentation
We have given over a dozen corporate presentations on the iPhone and iPad over the past few years. Here are our top 5 tips on how to make your iPhone or iPad presentation a success when in front of a corporate group. 1. What are the specific goals of the presentation? Is it more useful to show off ...