What is it? XBMC is a home theater software system. XBMC is open source, free, and constantly expanding. XBMC, it must be said, and this is not a minority opinion, is amazing. Attach a second monitor to your Windows, Linux, or Mac machine, preferably an HDTV and you now have a media library that is not only organized and streamlined, … Continued
As a boy, Saroo lived in Khandwa, India where he was a train sweeper with his brother. One day he fell asleep next to the trains, and when he awoke his brother was nowhere to be found. Hoping to find his brother, he hopped on a train. This train took him all the way to the busy city of Calcutta, … Continued
Jordan Golson, an Apple Store employee in New Hampshire, sold 750,000 dollars worth of Mac products in a mere three month stint. During the same time, he was personally grossing 11.25 an hour. In his interview with The New York Times, he lamented that, “part of me was thinking, ‘This is great. I’m an Apple fan, the store is doing … Continued
Clif High will blow your mind. He can’t out-and-out tell you the future, or even show you his face – but he’s happy to provide hour-long podcast interviews on YouTube every month where his theories and predictions are hashed out and picked apart. This is how most people (including myself) stumble upon the eccentric Clif High. There are many ways … Continued
Today, the use of social media is, to say the least, prevalent. Social networking sites offer another medium for us in which we can express ourselves freely. In the United States alone, at least 77% of the population uses some form of a social networking site. Places such as Australia and the UK consist of a little over 80% of … Continued
Imagine life in 25 years. You’ll have piled up thousands of emails, written hundreds of documents, made countless phone calls and text messages, and posted innumerable amounts of material to social networking websites. In that time, so many things will have happened – your digital content, mile-markers along the way. What might it all say about you? Some seem to … Continued
Prosthesis (from the Ancient Greek prósthesis meaning “addition,” “application,” or “attachment”) is the practice of creating an artificial limb or body part and integrating it in a fairly permanent way. Prosthetic limbs have been used by mankind for over 3,000 years as a solution to amputation, deformed limbs or body parts from birth, or a number of other physical limitations. … Continued
Spotify is a popular online music player favored by Facebook and general Internet users alike. Most users of Facebook have seen Spotify updates on their friends’ walls that show what they’re currently listening to. Sean Parker, investor in Facebook and founder of Napster, has been heavily investing in the service. Despite the rise in popularity over subscription-based Internet radio, however, … Continued
The philosophy of the Pirate party is simple, and begins with empowerment, the fundamental change in our modern society that comes with everyone having a voice. This voice is accessible across the globe in the form of the Internet. It provides a solution that has always been at the heart of government, even our own pseudo democracy: the people can … Continued
If you’ve ever worked on a shared computer, merged your personal and professional messages, or simply dealt with the odd bout of paranoia that the feds are surveying you, it’s worth considering email encryption. Before we get into software recommendations, let’s answer the important question. How does encryption work? Let’s say that you would like to send a private message … Continued
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