LAN, GAN, WHAM!
Behind router and firewalls computers, servers and media players talk to each other without worrying about hackers and other Internet pests. Outside; at the airport, in the café or on the train, it's very different. It's tricky to
Behind router and firewalls computers, servers and media players talk to each other without worrying about hackers and other Internet pests. Outside; at the airport, in the café or on the train, it's very different. It's tricky to
The Franco-German team Hillebrand & Ghillebaert invented SMS, Short Message Service. Most likely they were unaware of what was ahead. Battery operated wireless phones with global coverage? Done. Why would anyone want to send a 160-character text message? The
Insanely great things can be done with a Raspberry Pi for $40. For audio on the home-LAN the challenge is to get the digital stream of ones and zeros over to the analogue amplifier in best possible condition.
I needed a way to import interesting stuff from a web page into my DokuWiki . This is where I collect phone numbers, contacts, to-dos, bank accounts, links, pictures, quotes... well, everything and then some. The backbone of my
People who create content and software must be able to make a living somehow. The question is how. Today we can choose between advertising-funded, sponsorship, donations, subscriptions and micro-payments. If you think advertising-funded content has gone completely off
All the years of Windows and MacOS have been a cavalcade of viruses, security holes, updates, drivers and license keys. And, the strange feeling of paying for the hardware while handing over control of the computer to a
Smartphones drive me crazy but it's not like there's a choice. BankID, mobile banking, Soundcloud, train and plane tickets, SWISH, Skype, Google Maps.... revolutionary apps that it's very hard to manage everyday life without. A smartphone, however, completely
I write stories on media, human and machines. And I pay to publish them. There is no advertising, no moderators, no online hate and no comment boxes. Bad actors can now manipulate large swaths of people to do