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Cloud-in-a-Box

Posted in Cloud

Originally posted 2011-07-01 12:00:39. There has been a lot of recent news about pre-packaged cloud solutions. Whether it's from established companies like Dell, or from new startups like Nebula, these appliance-based solutions promise an easy way for enterprises to adopt and deploy cloud solutions both within their architecture and using a hybrid approach (internal and [...]

Sometimes It's the Little Things That Set Everything in Motion

Posted in Business

Originally posted 2011-07-19 11:30:02. Do you carry any napkins with you? You might want to start considering such after you read the article below. It seems that a host of big-name ideas, everything from Facebook to ethernet, started on a napkin (rumor has it Jeff Bezos made is Amazon list on a napkin as well): [...]

It's Sad That We Even Need This

Posted in Personal

Originally posted 2011-08-12 16:59:02. Although I think many of us would like to hide our head in the sand about this, it's an issue. There are thousands upon thousands of men out there looking to take advantage of women using force, or in this case, drugs. At least there are intelligent people out there trying [...]

Photo: An Interesting Take on Stop-Motion Photography

Posted in How-TosPhoto

Originally posted 2011-08-17 09:30:08. Dave Wallace, a freelance videographer, put together a stop motion video consisting of 2,335 photographs. Stop motion videos are nothing new, but Wallace's video uses an interesting twist. Created as an advertisement for ClickPixx, a new online photo-printing service, the video was created using printed photographs. After spending the day shooting over [...]

Small Town NY Library Needs Your Help!

Posted in PersonalPublishingWriting

Originally posted 2011-09-02 08:41:50. Hurricane Irene, while knocking out power and disrupting business and all sorts of other stuff, also wrecked local libraries and destroyed book collections. Do you have any books laying around that you don't need? Children's books in particular? Check out the article below (from GalleyCat) and send what you can: http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/... [...]

Wonderfully Complicated

Posted in CloudReview

Originally posted 2011-07-13 12:50:30. I have been writing a lot of data visualization lately (really as a precursor to a much larger post about the next big step in computing/software) and here is something I recently came across: Wondergraphs. I've pasted their video tour below: Introduction to Wondergraphs from Wondergraphs on Vimeo. Now I consider [...]

Can Amazon Change the Face of Education with the Kindle Fire?

Posted in CloudHypothesisIdeasTechnology

Originally posted 2011-09-28 10:55:11. Although I had originally believed that the iPad would do this, the price point (and the high-end computational specifications) has probably hampered it's ability to gain traction in elementary, Jr. high, and high-schools. Sure, there are outlier educational institutions willing to pay for this but for the most part, I would [...]

How-To: Tips for Adjusting Photos in Photo Editing Software

Posted in How-TosPhoto

Originally posted 2011-08-25 15:06:54. Although the article below references Adobe Lightroom in particular, it applies to any photo-editing software (like Aperture 3, for example) that provides this kind of fine-grain modification: http://gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com/2... From the piece: 1. Boost blacks to +5 points or so (in the Basics panel, under Color). Deepening blacks will add richness to [...]

Got Startup?

Posted in Business

Originally posted 2011-07-18 16:02:41. Got a great startup going? Want some press? Pitch it to the folks at Mashable and get your PR on (or just stalk Charlie Sheen until he Tweets about it): http://mashable.com/bizspark/ From In the Mind of Jason Thibeault, post Got Startup?

Do It Yourself vs. Amazon: Weighing the Pros and Cons of Cloud-based Businesses

Posted in BusinessCloud

Originally posted 2011-07-11 21:12:07. Although we talk a lot about how the cloud in terms of companies off-loading costly infrastructure, what we don't often talk about is how the cloud has enabled a new crop of technology startups. Whether it's managing lots of cloud instances (Rightscale) or reporting on cloud traffic or helping companies deploy [...]