This article from Huffington Post (I’m not an avid reader, just happened this way) came into my radar about one of my favorite websites of all time, Ars Technica. On average, I visit this site about 6 days a week. I’ve been a reader of this site since it started back in 1998. I’ve even […]
Tag Archives: Internet
Brave Browser So Far and WordPress Innovations
I was just about to write a quick little blog post about how I think the Brave browser is nice and fast, but then I tired to get into Google Sheets to look something up and it didn’t work in Brave. Neither did logging into my WordPress (self-hosted) site. I had to switch to Safari […]
Speaking on Synthetic Mobile Performance Testing and Monitoring
I gave a presentation on Synthetic Mobile Performance Testing and Monitoring last night as part of Mobile Monday Detroit at OU Inc. I talked about: Mobile Web Monitoring Challenges Website Performance: What is it? Mobile Testing 3rd party calls Summary I discussed some key benchmarks to look for in mobile performance testing: End to end […]
Been a while…
Thanks to Alex, been working on some new projects. Working with Heroku (had always been curious about their services) to install a node.js application called Telescope for some exciting things I can’t disclose yet. Also planning to work with another node.js application, but not Telescope, in the coming days. Doing my first speaking engagement on […]
Speed up your Android’s Chrome Browser
I’m not normally looking to make changes like this… who am I kidding? Of course I am. I’m a speed freak. I love pushing my technology to the limit. Thanks to reddit user erythrocytes64, you can make a simple change to a Chrome flag. Go into Chrome and surf to chrome://flags/#max-tiles-for-interest-area. Set that to 512 instead of […]
When Free Public WiFi Really Isn’t Free
How do you feel when you’re at a public place, like a Starbucks, and you search for a wireless network and you are given a few options, leading you to choose the one that you get as a benefit of being a subscriber. At this Starbucks in Troy, MI, for instance, I was given the […]
Dropbox adds convenience for business users
We use Dropbox at work and I also use Dropbox personally. Prior to just recently, to use both of my Dropbox accounts, I had to use DropboxPortableAHK alongside the standard Dropbox client (for Windows). It worked about 99.8% as well as I wanted it to. Every now and again, the portable version would get stuck […]
Windows XP still at 29% market share
So I’m reading this article over at Ars Technica that talks about how Windows XP is near its end of life for support from Microsoft (April 8). It has all kinds of graphs and charts that say one thing: Microsoft is still winning the OS and browser war. What else it shows is that with […]
Tethering the Nexus 5
I recently made the switch from an HTC One that I got back in May, my first Android phone, to the Google Nexus 5. Why did I do this? There are a few reasons, but one of them was that I wanted to have a phone that ran Google’s most current version of Android without […]
MESS came into my radar today
So, the Multi Emulator Super System came into my radar today. What a fascinating project. It takes the MAME (Multi Arcade Machine Emulator) project and shoves it into a web browser using JavaScript. I was able to play Choplifter (Apple IIc), Pitfall (Atari 2600), and Lemonade Stand (Apple ?) today. I was impressed. You can […]