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Posted February 06, 2019in Tech Talk

Lessons in utility from Discord

The hardest nut to crack when developing anything in tech. About a dozen years ago, Jim Carrey released a brand new website. In mid-2000s, Carrey was still one of the [...]

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Posted January 02, 2019in Tech Talk

Flying below the radar on Reddit

“The front page of the Internet” has everything in place to be the next YouTube. The Internet can be a fickle place when it comes to success. For years, a [...]

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Posted December 05, 2018in Tech Talk

Cold technology gifts

Smart speakers are a cold — not cool — gift Christmas gifts can be tricky. For the most creative, romantic or codependent amongst us, the “thoughtful” gift is probably the gold standard [...]

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Posted October 31, 2018in Tech Talk

WiFi 6 kills the confusion

And you won’t even need a manual. Manuals are the bane of nearly every man’s existence. It doesn’t matter if you’ve purchased a “some assembly required” set of shelves, a [...]

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Posted October 03, 2018in Tech Talk

Cancel the unwanted noise in your life

Sony’s WH-1000XM2 is the king of the consumer-level headset market. Everyone has that frustrating experience of sitting close to someone with awful headphones — not headphones that are unstylish but [...]

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Posted September 05, 2018in Tech Talk

Motorized scooters are a thing

Just not yet in Iowa In the season two “South Park” episode “Prehistoric Ice Man,” a guy named Larry is found frozen in ice and thawed, wherein they find he [...]

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Posted August 01, 2018in Tech Talk

This vacation better be worth the headache

There is no silver bullet in the digital age for booking travel accommodations. Leave your cares, deadlines, awkward relationships and everything else at home and travel to an exciting or relaxing place. [...]

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Posted July 04, 2018in Tech Talk

The platinum age of photography

Your pocket “super camera” is now a gateway tool to master photography. The mechanically captured still image has been around for more than 150 years. In the mid-1840s, the Daguerreotype [...]

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Posted June 06, 2018in Tech Talk

‘Fortnite’ is winning the entertainment battle

A cartoonishly violent, freemium videogame Most every tech-enabled marketplace celebrates a new industry darling each year. Whether it’s movies, social media, podcasting, transportation, applications, music or any other silo of [...]

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Posted May 02, 2018in Tech Talk

Facebook knows virtually everything about you

And, passively, it’s all your fault. Ninety-five percent of the world has no idea how the Internet works. Security breaches, data leaks, identity theft — these are life-altering events that [...]

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