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
