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Tuesday, December 15, 2015

Almond+ Router/Smarthome Hub Plus CT100 Thermostat = Remote Control Heat

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A few years have gone by since I wrote about the original Almond touchscreen wi-fi router and range extender and my consulting relationshi...
Tuesday, August 4, 2015

Turn on YouTube’s Speech-to-Text Closed Captions ... They’re Hilarious!

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The other day I discovered that YouTube has introduced automated, possibly on-the-fly closed captioning for a lot of its videos. To see...
Saturday, February 7, 2015

Hiding in Plain Sight: Super Panavision Cameras in John Frankenheimer's "Grand Prix"

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Note: this blog post contains what some may consider spoilers. I saw John Frankenheimer's movie Grand Prix in a theater in Times Squ...
Thursday, October 17, 2013

Adobe Creative Cloud: What You Worry?

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Adobe Chief Marketing Officer Ann Lewnes (visual approximation) Adobe Chief Marketing Officer Ann Lewnes is not a worrier.  And she do...
Monday, May 20, 2013

OK, Google: Maps, Map Maker, and All Those 6 Bond Streets

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Now, with Google and online maps at our fingertips, what was once normal can be seen as uncivilized — like asking someone for directions to...
Saturday, April 6, 2013

Twitter Followers, Real Twitter Followers & Celebrity Twitter Followers

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I’ve had a Mind The Rant Twitter account for about two years.  And during that time I’ve cultivated a vast throng of 117 loyal followers: ...
Thursday, April 4, 2013

Goodreads, Amazon, Anna Karenina: Coincidence?

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Last week, when Amazon announced that it had bought community reading site Goodreads for an undisclosed sum, there was plenty of sturm und d...