We Talked to the Scholar Who Just Got $2.3 Million to Study Games
Last week, the European Union's European Research Council announced that Espen Aarseth won its competitive Advanced Grant. It's designed to allow researchers to pursue ground-breaking, high-risk projects in Europe, and it comes with a €2 million (roughly $2.3 million...
First known Mac ransomware reaches the wild
KeRanger will force you to pay digital cash to use your computer. While ransomware has sadly been a reality on smartphones and Windows PCs for a while, you haven't really had to worry about it on a Mac... until now, that is. Palo Alto Networks claims to have...
Berkeley Institute
Project: Berkeley Institute Client: Berkeley Institute, Matthew Rose Technologies: CS6: Photoshop; WordPress; Divi PageBuilder, MailChimp, and Google email integration Description: Web site development. URL: binst.org
‘Happy Birthday’ settlement puts the song in the public domain
You won't have to pay Warner to use the most popular English song in history. Since 1988, Warner/Chappell has had an iron grip on the copyright for "Happy Birthday to You." Artists couldn't sing it on a recording without paying up, even though it's virtually...
Critical Realism Research Network
Project: Critical Realism Research Network Client: John Templeton Foundation Grant Technologies: CS6: Photoshop; WordPress; PageBuilder Description: Web site development. URL: http://www.criticalrealismnetwork.org
Sharing Files via Dropbox With People Who Don’t Have an Account
Q and A from the Personal Tech column of the New York Times By J. D. BIERSDORFER Q. I am having trouble trying to figure out how to send tax files to my parents on Dropbox, but since they are not Dropbox users, I don’t know how to share my files with them. How can I...
Center for Research on Inequalities and the Life Course
Project: Center for Research on Inequalities and the Life Course (CIQLE) Client: Yale University Technologies: CS6: Photoshop; Drupal Description: Web site development. URL: https://ciqle.yale.edu
Elm Institute
Project: Elm Institute, Princeton, New Jersey Client: Danilo Petranovich Technologies: CS6: Photoshop; Wordpress, Jetpack, Paypal Description: Web site development. Paypal integration. URL: http://www.elminstitute.org
Drupal vs WordPress
Reprinted from Big Tuna Interactive Author: Adam Hermsdorfer When we first started developing sites in 2007, every site we built was with WordPress. At that time, these sites were smaller and WordPress was evolving from a blogging platform to a full fledged content...
The Big Debate—WordPress Trackbacks And Pingbacks: Are They Dead?
Posted on December 15, 2014 What Are Trackbacks? You’re bound to hear about trackbacks in a WordPress related conversation on some point, but just what the heck are they? The WordPress Codex defines a trackback in WordPress this way: …TrackBack was designed to...
Are Gadget-Free Bedrooms the Secret to a Happy Relationship?
Article courtesy of Nick Bilton, New York Times, DEC 3, 2014 Sound the alarm: The good old-fashioned relationship is under attack from technology. That seems to be the message from a growing body of psychology research examining how technology is affecting our love...
Americans Say They Want Privacy, but Act as if They Don’t
Image Credit Ellen Porteus Article courtesy of Claire Cain Miller The Upshot, New York Times, NOV. 12, 2014 Americans say they are deeply concerned about privacy on the web and their cellphones. They say they do not trust Internet companies or the government to...
How to Buy a USB Hub
Reprinted from HowtoGeek.com Compared to the complexity of purchasing a new graphics card or swapping out your motherboard purchasing a USB hub is definitely a simple purchase; but that doesn’t mean you should just grab the first one off the shelf at your local...
The Moto 360: An Elegant Smartwatch Worthy of Attention
By MOLLY WOOD, New York Times Motorola’s Moto 360 smartwatch wowed when it was announced last March, and it has been talked about ever since as the smartwatch you might actually want. The main reason? It looks good. Really good, in fact. Now that the Moto 360 has...
Apple Plans Smartwatch and Larger iPhones
By BRIAN X. CHEN, New York Times SAN FRANCISCO — When Apple wants to make a big splash, it returns to its history. Thirty years ago at the Flint Center for the Performing Arts, a roomy auditorium in Cupertino, Calif., Steven P. Jobs introduced the original Macintosh....
U.S. firm says Russian gang stole 1.2 billion Internet credentials
(Reuters) - A cybersecurity firm said it has uncovered about 1.2 billion Internet logins and passwords and more than 500 million email addresses amassed by a Russian crime ring, the largest known collection of such stolen data, the New York Times reported on Tuesday....
Despite warnings, computers still vulnerable to hackers of start-up codes
By Joseph Menn SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A multi-year effort to prevent hackers from altering computers while they boot up has largely failed because of lax application of preventive steps, researchers say, despite disclosures that flaws are being exploited. In the...
Samsung battles on two fronts as Apple readies iPhone 6
BY SE YOUNG LEE SEOUL (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co Ltd (005930.KS) is losing smartphone ground not only to cheaper Chinese rivals but also at the high end to Apple Inc (AAPL.O), a survey showed, in an ominous sign for the South Korean giant as Apple readies to...