Archives for the 'Technology' Category
Location-based Apps Picking Up Steam
Friday, June 11th, 2010
It seems like the location-based social media apps like Foursquare, Gowalla and BrightKite are finally beginning to pick up steam. Starbucks was an early adopter of Foursquare, and now I’m starting to see more and more small businesses take advantage of the opportunities that are being afforded by this new medium. In fact, the social [...]
WWDC Sold Out
Friday, May 7th, 2010
Apple’s Worldwide Developer’s Conference sells out for the third straight year in a record-breaking eight days. Not a good sign for Flash.
SXSW Trending on Twitter
Sunday, March 14th, 2010
Look at the rise in the term “SXSW” over the last few days on Twitter:
4G Performance, Part III: More from Austin
Saturday, March 13th, 2010
I got back to my hotel room this evening and attempted to have a video chat with my wife and kids. While fun, the video quality on my end was horrendous – which prompted me to do some more testing. I ran a test on Speedtest.net and got pretty awesome results, 7.01 Mbits up and [...]
Sierra Wireless Overdrive 3G/4G Performance, Part II
Saturday, March 13th, 2010
My first road trip with the Overdrive and I had pretty high hopes. I’m at SXSW in Austin, so I figured bandwidth would be a problem for AT&T given the number of iPhone toting geeks concentrated within a several block radius. I thought I’d be in the clear with 4G access via Sprint’s network. Unfortunately, [...]
Sierra Wireless Overdrive 3G/4G Performance
Saturday, March 6th, 2010
A couple of days ago, I ordered a Sierra Wireless Overdrive 3G/4G wireless hotspot from Sprint. I’ve only had the chance to use it a couple of times so I’m withholding judgement on performance until I’ve tried to use it in real world situations. I live in Raleigh, NC which is one of Sprint’s 4G [...]
Fixing SNMP in Mac OS X Server 10.5.7
Thursday, September 10th, 2009
I monitor my network with PRTG Network Monitor. After recently upgrading our Xserve from 10.5.4 to 10.5.7 (server), its status changed in PRTG to “in alarm” and was unable to connect via SNMP to collect any data. It turns out that the default configuration of the SNMP agent changed with the 10.5.7 upgrade, tightening access [...]
In-Depth Review of Snow Leopard
Thursday, September 3rd, 2009
John Siracusa has posted an exhaustive review of Apple’s latest OS release, Snow Leopard. Great read if you really want to learn why you need to upgrade.
WWDC Sold Out!
Tuesday, April 28th, 2009
For the second time in history (and second year in a row), Apple’s Worldwide Developer’s Conference has sold out. This seems to support my theory that WWDC is “the” Mac conference – eclipsing the once-mighty MacWorld Expo.