Category: Random Thoughts
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IoT Devices and Network Security
This is going to be a multi-part post about securing your home/business network and separating your IoT devices into their own to keep them and yourself “safer”. With the explosion of IoT in the recent years, it is hard to find anything without some sort of “smart” capabilities. Whether it is a TV, Sonos, Nest…
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You want HBO Now? Better move out of Canada.
Yesterday, at the Apple press event on March 9th, Apple announced various new hardware and software updates. Amongst them was HBO Now, which is a stand alone service provided exclusively through Apple TV when it starts . However, much like most of the other cord-cutting ways of watching legal TV episodes and Movies (Hulu, TV…
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Google is the Internet!
That is a pretty obvious statement with the size of the company and the services it offers, but I did not have enough of an appreciation for that statement until recently. It is easy to dismiss the statement as an obvious one, but it is a little scary to me. No one company should affect…
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Updated: Google Reader shutdown signals RSS’ death?
The internets are busy writing about Google Reader being shutdown on July 1st, and how RSS is dead. The argument I read in one of the articles was the RSS and Google Reader, while functional, were not sexy enough and are being replaced by the likes of Flipboard, and Pulse. Sure, there is some truth…
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OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion Continues to Blur the Line to iOS
Apple’s next version of OSX is around the corner, and it continues to blur the lines between iOS and OSX. You can read more about that on Gizmodo. By why not just allow iOS apps to run on OSX? With all the talks about sandboxing apps and bringing more iOS features to OSX, it just…
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Android Browser is the IE of the mobile Web
For years Web App developers have dreaded the browser fragmentation and having to support IE. It required a lot of extra finess in both Web frameworks and Web App code to make sure things worked close to intended across all browsers specifically IE. Now that the focus has shifted to the mobile web, history is…
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Upgrading to iPhone 4S
My phone finally arrived yesterday, but that is just when things got even more interesting. Here I am with a brand new iPhone, but no internet, and no micro SIM. Of all the days in the year, my cable provider decided to do maintenance on the one day in the past three years that I…
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Is this the death of WebOS?
I, personally, had high hopes for Web OS and Palm. I truly believed that it was the only worthy opponent to iOS and from the moment it was announced I was ready to buy into it except for the cheesy phone design. That was not the only mistake that Palm made though, and HP’s announcement…
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Google NaCl
Google recently announced a new beta version of Chrome that supports NaCl, or Native Client. It allows C/C++ code to be natively executed inside the browser with restrictions. The new API is called Pepper, but it sounds much like the plagued ActiveX technology that Microsoft offered with IE a few years ago. What do you…
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A shift to Android
I have recently shifted to Android since I had to do some development for it and I had to see for myslef if the phone was really as bad as the simulator on the Mac. The short story is that it is impressive in its own way, but it is not an easy switch from…