Scala Foundation Brochure
Project: Scala Foundation Brochure, Layout and Design Client: Scala Foundation, Princeton, NJ Technologies: CS6: Photoshop; InDesign CS6 Description: Layout and Design URL: Brochure
The Inner City School: Inequality and Urban Education
Project: Conference Brochure, Layout and Design Client: Yale University/UEP, New Haven, CT Technologies: CS6: Photoshop; InDesign CS6 Description: Layout and Design Brochure
Wikipedia Project
The Wikipedia Project website is the home for the NSF funded research and data project launched and codeveloped by NYU and Yale University. Project:Wikipedia Research Project, New Haven, Ct, Abu Dhabi, UAE, New York, NY. Client: National Science Foundation/NYU-Yale...
A Brief Guide to the Newer Reservation Apps
by STEPHANIE STROMAUG. 29, 2017 I Know the Chef This diner-focused app lists only restaurants it has evaluated to make sure they meet its standards. You select a restaurant, time and number of diners; the app responds with a confirmation right away, or provides the...
How to Avoid Phony Facebook Phone Lines
By J. D. BIERSDORFER AUG. 28, 2017 Q. Why doesn’t Facebook have its telephone-support number listed on its website? I often have questions about using the site. A. Facebook does not list a telephone number for technical support because Facebook does not offer...
Dear iPhone: Here’s Why We’re Still Together After 10 Years
By BRIAN X. CHEN AUG. 23, 2017 Dear iPhone: It’s hard to believe we’re still together after 10 years, which is eons in the tech industry. What’s the glue that keeps us together? For one, I rarely get lost now that I always have a GPS device in my pocket. After lots...
Bringing Fieldwork Back In: Conference
Project: Conference Book/Program (Online and Print), Layout and Design Client: Yale University/UEP, New Haven, CT Technologies: CS6: Photoshop; InDesign CS6 Description: Layout and Design Brochure: Fieldwork-Booklet
When You Should (and Shouldn’t) Share Your Location Using a Smartphone
By BRIAN X. CHEN JULY 12, 2017 SAN FRANCISCO — Last week after my motorcycle malfunctioned and crashed on the freeway, I wanted only two simple things from technology: to call 911 and to tell loved ones where I could be found. Coincidentally, I had been testing...
GIA Cell Guard™ (“MRET Nylon”): Advanced Cell Phone EMF Radiation Protection
Dear readers, I post this article link for informational purposes only. The argument about EMR is unproven, but not without all merit. For thoe of you interested, read on, and click on the links for more... Scientifically Proven Radiation Safeguard for Any Cell Phone!...
Online Video Producers Caught In Struggle Between Advertisers And YouTube
by Laura Sydell Courtesy of NPR Morning Edition-All Tech Considered It's been lean times for some of YouTube's most popular video producers. In the last two weeks ad rates have gone down as much as 75 percent. The producers are caught up in a struggle between...
That Fingerprint Sensor on Your Phone Is Not as Safe as You Think
New research suggests that the fingerprint security features on iPhones and Android devices can be easily fooled by so-called MasterPrint fakes. By VINDU GOEL APRIL 10, 2017 Courtesy of NYTimes. SAN FRANCISCO — Fingerprint sensors have turned modern smartphones into...
How to Protect Your Online Privacy Now That Congress Sold You Out
By Eric Limer Courtesy of Popular Mechanics All your private online data—the websites you visit, the content of your chats and emails, your health info, and your location—just became suddenly less secure. Not because of hackers, but because Congress just blocked...
How the Republicans Sold Your Privacy to Internet Providers
By TOM WHEELER On Tuesday afternoon, while most people were focused on the latest news from the House Intelligence Committee, the House quietly voted to undo rules that keep internet service providers — the companies like Comcast, Verizon and Charter that you pay for...
Escaping the Scareware Alert
Tech Tip By J. D. BIERSDORFER Q. I sometimes get obviously fake virus alerts invading my desktop browser, but the only option to make the box go away is to click the O.K. button — which I am afraid to do. Where do these things come from, and is there an easier way to...
Buying a New TV? Here’s How to Cut Through the Jargon
By CHRISTOPHER MELE Looking to buy a new television? You’ll face an alphabet soup of terms like 4K, H.D.R. and O.L.E.D. but you don’t have to be fluent in tech-speak to get a television that is right for your needs and budget. Should you buy now or wait? Consider...
I Ignored Trump News for a Week. Here’s What I Learned.
Farhad Manjoo STATE OF THE ART I spent last week ignoring President Trump. Although I am ordinarily a politics junkie, I didn’t read, watch or listen to a single story about anything having to do with our 45th president. What I missed, by many accounts, was one of the...
How Your Phone Knows Where You Have Been
Please, please, please, do not leave your location services settings at Default. This is another invasion of privacy that you get no compensation for, which has huge profit potential for everybody but you. Don't allow Apple, and so many other tech companies, to so...
Hooked on Our Smartphones
By JANE E. BRODY for the New York Times The many men, women and children who spend their days glued to their smartphones and social media accounts might learn something from Lin-Manuel Miranda, creator of the groundbreaking megahit “Hamilton.” Asked in an interview...