As exciting as advances in battery technology have been lately–not least because of the efforts of Elon Musk, his Powerwall, and the Gigafactory in Nevada–a new glass created by MIT spinoff Ubiquitous Energy promises (threatens?) to turn current power-storage paradigms of their head. The key here is the special organic coating of that absorbs light […]
Sleeping problems seem generally to be on the rise for many people nowadays unfortunately, especially those of us who work with computers for most of the day. One way to combat any problems you might be having getting some shut-eye is to purchase this wake-up light by Philips. It may not make it easier to […]
Whether you are a fan of puzzles and brain teasers or you simply enjoy having interesting-looking functional art objects on your desk, you should take a look at these multicolored Magnet Balls as a gift or for yourself. Made from rare earth magnets, the myriad shapes one could use them to create are virtually infinite, […]
Firefox has a nice way to view files that are in both your memory and file cache. In the Address Bar, type about:cache. This will take you to a page that allows you to view a summary of your browser cache and also will allow you to browse the files stored in the cache. This […]
Three Reasons My Goal Is To Write 1001 Words A Day For a long time now I have had a goal to write 1001 words every day. Anyone can do 1000. I don’t always hit that arbitrary number but I’m convinced that by setting it as a specific daily goal I am setting myself up […]
As painful as it was for me to see after putting so much time into this site, I’ll admit it has also been morbidly interesting to watch the death of traffic to Digitalmediaminute.com in the last 3 1/2 years. You can see the basic idea in the screenshot, but suffice it to say that site […]
As far as I’m concerned the voice activated typing software I’ve used for typing blog posts, e-mails, and anything else that required more than a couple lines of text has been replaced. For years MacSpeech Dictate was my tool of choice to quickly get a few hundred words typed up, without risking repetitive strain injury […]
A former student asked me a few days ago how I learned Ruby on Rails. The answer was that I simply read alot of great tutorials. So in the spirit of sharing, here are the 12 tutorials that I found most useful: Rolling with Ruby on Rails – Curtis Hibbs of ONLamp.com offers his first […]
PureFTPd is a very nice replacement for the somewhat limited FTP server for Mac that comes with OSX. It is a free (BSD), secure, production-quality and standard-conformant FTP server. It focuses on efficiency and ease of use and has unique useful features for personal users as well as hosting providers. A binary installer is available […]
Link updated for 2016: Microsoft has just made the MSDN Library a free download! If you do any Windows development, MSDN library is a very useful tool to have. But wait – you say the MSDN library is already available online? Yes it is, but the search isn’t always very useful, and the web based […]
I have never been a very fast typist (or a fascist type for that matter), in fact I operate a keyboard in a fashion that might be called “touchhunting”. Lately if I’m writing something that runs more than 300 or 400 words I feel my shoulders and neck tighten up and I get more headaches […]
It looks like Google is about ready to launch Google Base. In fact the site was up earlier, but was soon taken down. You can find a screenshot on Flickr. The text on the screenshot reads: Post your items on Google. Google Base is Google’s database into which you can add all types of content. […]
I recently had to create an SFTP server on our work development system, and after doing a fair bit of Googling on the topic found a good solution. The solution is a combination of research done at different sites. It is this solution I am sharing in hopes that it will help someone else. This […]
Starting up a new media firm? Looking for a company name and a catchy tagline? New Media Company Generator will display a random company name and tagline for you! As more and more people catch the entrepreneurial bug and start their own companies, of either the online or traditional brick-and-mortar type, free tools like this […]
MailEnable is a high perfomance POP3 and SMTP free mail server for the Windows platform. It is free and contains some nice features like spam filtering, SMTP authentication, highly customized relaying options, and a built in list server. I can’t say I’ve done an exhaustive search for the very best free Windows mail server available […]