Tyler Whitaker's Infotech

Category: Technology

  • 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

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Ning.com and Corporate (Social) Web Apps

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    So I just ran across www.ning.com. Ning is the latest in social web applications designed to bring people together. But the twist here is that it’s a development platform complete with search, php, built-in tagging and a fully-managed content store (no database setup required). Best of all it free, thanks to Marc Andreessen (the guy…

  • Asterisk, VoIP, and Next Gen IVRs

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    In the last couple of days, I’ve had a couple of people tell me about Asterisk.org. For those of you who are not familiar with the next generation of telephony, it come a long way for big iron Nortel and IntervoiceBrite. Now you’ve got low cost hardware and open source PBX solutions. Asterisk is offering an…

  • Ajax, Mashups, Camps, and Pits

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    I’ve been working on a couple of pieces of client side browser based code lately that I hope to share in the coming weeks. And what I’ve finding is that an Ajax Mashup is basically the same kind of stuff I’ve been doing for several years.  It started when Evan Davis and I hacked the salesforce.com API in a…

  • GPS Cell Phone Tracking for Kids / Employees / Spouses?

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    So recently I’ve been having thoughts about using cell phones to track people. They are already connected to a network and with recent e911 laws they are increasingly shipping with gps chips. All you need to do is web enable the tracking data and viola you can track your friends, kids, employees, anyone… Check out these…