Tyler Whitaker's Infotech

Month: March 2006

  • New InfoTech Article: Logical Technology

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    The latest InfoTech article published in Landscape Management Magazine on using logic to solve technology problem is now available online. Technology is built on logic. Problems with technology have logical answers. InfoTech: Logical Technology

  • Lego and Mass Customization

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    Fast Company magazine has a great article on Lego’s new plan to use mass customization of their product to deliver more personalized product offering. Basically you download their Digital Designer product, draw up the plans for you creation, and it keeps track of the blocks you need. Then you can place an order to their…

  • Articles

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    InfoTech: 2009 technology buying guide Jan 1, 2009By: Tyler WhitakerA collection of some cool high-tech toys to start the new year. InfoTech: Is Obama the tech president? Dec 1, 2008By: Tyler Whitaker It’s now time to buckle down and understand what changes for technology are coming during the next four years. InfoTech: TV ads fight…

  • Samsung Releases a 32GB Flash Hard Drive Replacement

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    For the last year, I’ve been watching the capacities increase and the price drop on the current flash drive technology. As someone who has lost several hard drives over the years, I see this as the next big step in computer reliability. Both Fans and Hard Drives wear out, but with a Flash drive there…

  • Amazon’s S3 Web Service – Online Hard Drive

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    It think we’ve hit a new milestone in the web’s development. Amazon.com has announced their Amazon S3 – Simple Storage Service. We now have low cost, “in the cloud” data storage. What does this mean to me? Web developers across the global can now offer online applications without needing to build the costly data storage…

  • 63 Year Old Enigma Message Cracked

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    The M4 Message Breaking Project has just announced breaking a 63 year old encrypted message from German Sub U-623 sent during the height to World War II in November 1942. They accomplished this via a distributed computing project similar to the SETI@home project. Using over 5,000 desktop computers the team was able to work through all of…

  • The Search for Noah’s Ark Continues…

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    I found an interesting article on the “Mt. Ararat Anomaly.” Recent satellite images are providing the best yet views of this area and what may lie beneath the snow and ice. Is it Noah’s Ark? I’m not sure, but the images are very interesting… http://www.space.com/news/060309_ark_update.html

  • Google Mars is Now Available

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    Google Mars up and online. It looks like the resolution is similar to Google Moon. You can find the face on mars but the resolution isn’t tight enough to see it. All in all, it’s a pretty cool tool. Hopefully the imagery will be upgraded in the next 12 months with data from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter that…

  • Amazon’s Mechanical Turk

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    Have you ever wanted to earn a little extra money on the web? Amazon.com has a solution for you. It’s called Mechanical Turk. It’s a system where people answer simply questions for pennies. The questions range from your favorite books to whether a picture is of a pizza parlor or not. So I know you’re…

  • Microsoft Origami Ultra-Mobile PC

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    So Microsoft just announced a new mobile device at CBIT. The media has been leaking information for the last couple of weeks. Microsoft ran it’s own stealth marketing campaign on www.origamiproject.com. It’s a cross between a Pocket PC, IPod, Win XP Desktop, Tablet PC, and Dish Network’s PocketDish product. The best thing about this announcement…