Author: John

  • Ask an Engineer

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    From adafruit comes “Ask An Engineer” on Vimeo.  Sign up and watch, read the Adafruit blog, get online and ASK! See all the videos.

  • DorkbotPDX: People Doing Strange Things with Electricity.

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    DorkbotPDX About DorkbotPDX DorkbotPDX has crawled out of the womb and is in the now permanent (revolutionary) process of defining itself. We are a community of creative types who enjoy experimenting, finding art in technology and pushing the limits of whatever is in front of us. We meet on an regular, informal basis every other…

  • The 3-D Printing Free-for-All

    From NYTimes, By NICK BILTON,  Ángel Franco/The New York TimesThe MakerBot 3-D printer makes objects from molten plastic from a computer design. Downloading — quite often stealing, in the eyes of the law — music, movies, books and photos is easier than bobbing for apples in a bucket without water. It has kept legions of…

  • Taking LinkedIn Seriously: Bootcamp

    I started using LinkedIn pretty soon after its release and it was a sparse, actually empty, social network at that time.  It has come a long way, but my use of it hasn’t.  I adopted too early.  Following the rule of attending to one thing, and being reminded by a peer, I found the LinkedIn…

  • Firefox Add-On of the Day: HTTPS Everywhere

    Too slow to change?  Perhaps, but looking over Peter’s shoulder last week I realized I needed to be running HTTPS Everywhere. From the website HTTPS Everywhere FAQ Creating HTTPS Everywhere Rulesets Hack On The Code How to Deploy HTTPS Correctly HTTPS Everywhere HTTPS Everywhere 1.0 has been released, and the project is out of beta.…

  • Open Source Replacements for The Expensive Applications

    From Internet.com 67 Open Source Replacements for Really Expensive Applications. I have had recent experience selecting and recommending software in a number of these categories and this review echos my own results in many areas. Essentially, even if you need commercial support, many open source programs now offer paid support that costs much less than…

  • Password Strength

    Next time you update your password…