Proving the date of origin of anything electronic – for patent or copyright purposes, perhaps – has been well nigh impossible. But that has now changed.
Category Archive: Life
Announcing Flash’s deathdate is but the first in a tough and painful road to restoring confidence in Adobe and its products.
What a mess the UK has made of tidal prediction: two different agencies, each charging us for information that we paid for in our taxes.
WSJ headline: “Apple’s Share of Smartphone Industry’s Profits Soars to 92%”. Is it a “profit monopoly”?
For a few years, I managed to get along without wasting any more money on PDAs and their ilk. Then came the Zaurus, and Dana. But none compared with the Z88.
The commercial mower of lawns does not pay a royalty for each lawn that they mow. So why should a user of H.264 video encoding be expected to pay royalties?
I needed a one-way method of generating a unique key for each subject name that would not permit the reverse process, of working out the name for a given key: something known as a ‘one-way hash key’.
Calendars, Mathematica, and the Mac: a curious but productive union.
Even though images of you may not be as sought after as those of celebrities, we all need to sharpen up our Cloud security.
For reasons known only to Microsoft, Word will never tell you that your document is too tough for a 17 year-old to read.
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