After years of being surrounded by iOS users who swear by their devices and apps, I gave in and purchased an iPad Air as a belated birthday gift. The design is ergonomic and beautiful. The apps are brilliantly optimized. There’s something special about the unity between hardware and software that…
When Google Glass was still in closed beta testing, the media was touting the flagship wearable as a glimpse into our future. Healthcare adopted Glass in the operating room, emergency centers, and even medical education. The more I think about it, the less ready we are for the large-scale adoption…
In my pursuit for optimization without utilizing resource-hungry plugins, I’ve compiled the following PHP snippets to run as cron jobs on my Bluehost account.
Rather than paying the ~$500 to replace my Macbook Air’s logic board, I got an awesome deal for an Acer C720 Chromebook. After using Google’s Chrome OS for nearly two months, I’ve found very little that I can’t easily accomplish on this “limited” cloud-based operating system.
As part of renovating this site, I wanted to cut down on the resource-heavy social media share links at the end of each post. I’ve modified some of the CSS created by Chris Ferdinandi to replace the aforementioned links with simple color-based links to various social platforms. Furthermore, I tapped…
Thanks to the Disqus Recent Comments Widget, WordPress users can easily display recent Disqus comments through sidebar widgets; however, for dynamic sites with significant activity, Disqus API requests can prove to be cumbersome. What if you exceed the allotted requests per hour? How slow will fetching recent comments make page…
During Apple’s WWDC 2013 keynote, the graphically-inclined may have noted “OpenGL 4” among OS X Mavericks’ feature list. I was curious and decided to study OpenGL support between Mountain Lion and the developer preview of Mavericks. The comparison was done on my non-production workstation using OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.4) and OS…
For the last week, I’ve been struggling with audio skipping and battery drain while listening to music on my Galaxy Note 2 (Carbon custom ROM). I observed that the “mediaserver” process was running for an inordinate period of time whenever I played music from PowerAMP.
Google’s Feedburner service has long been heralded as one of the best ways for websites to distribute RSS feeds. Users can monitor, publicize, and distribute their feeds through a variety of ways… all for the price of free. However, Google has made a few unnerving moves in the world of…
The topic of “browser speed” often comes up when comparing options, but as the Internet becomes more advanced, it becomes increasingly important to find proponents of web standards like HTML5 and CSS3. I decided to run a not-so-involved test among some popular (and free) browsers on the Google Play Store…