Earlier last week I had the chance to attend and speak at a private TTI/Vanguard conference entitled Generation Techs. Due to the nature of the conference I am not allowed to say who was in attendance but I hope to share some of the more interesting things discussed. As I told the conference organizers, it was one of the greatest experiences I have ever had. The people in Continue Reading »

Taking a note from Hulu, CBS launched an HD video player not too long ago. Their HD video gallery sports streamed, ad-supported clips and full episodes from their primetime shows. The site is plastered with Intel ads and unlike Hulu, videos are not embeddable. Continue Reading »

Now that I have recovered from my jet lag, I have been catching up on news, the biggest story being the iPhone 3G launch that I missed. Well, not entirely - there were quite a few stores in Rome that had the new iPhone. Today I began standing in line for an iPhone 3G at the Apple Store at 7am. Five hours later I had a shiny new black 8GB iPhone 3G. Continue Reading »

As a reminder, I am in Rome for a while attending and speaking at the TTI/Vanguard “Generation Techs” conference so there won’t be any typical PSTAM posts until I return early next week. I have been hanging out with Josh Spear and we’re wondering if you know of any interesting things to do in Rome. Drop a comment if you’ve got an idea. Continue Reading »

Many people have predicted what the future of the Internet holds. To each his own comes to mind as there are many different takes on what that future will be like. For some that future shows a vastly improved mobile web or the proliferation of open standards while to others the Continue Reading »

It’s no secret that I love the cloud and try to keep all of my data in it. So when Google announced that they added PDF support a few weeks ago, I was listening. Last night I had the bright idea to move my treasured PDFs from my S3 account to Google Docs, where I would easily be able to read them with Google’s built-in preview and access the original files. Furthermore, I figured Google would have tied in PDF support Continue Reading »

The recently launched Startup Warrior from former Georgia Tech classmate Andrew Cantino utilizes the Crunchbase API to help visitors visually browse startups and view startup hubs. Since the launch, Crunchbase has added similar mapping functionality but it’s up to you to decide which implementation is more effective. Continue Reading »

Today I turn 22 years old. In the last year I have done a lot of things I’m happy about but I won’t dwell on them here. I’m looking to the future and especially this upcoming year. I only have 5 classes left at Georgia Tech until I receive my degree and I have already completed the harder Computer Science Continue Reading »

Back in May I did a bit of traveling and became somewhat paranoid about the Internet connections I found at various hotels. I began using SSH tunnels to protect my web traffic when using Internet connections I did not trust. While setting up an SSH tunnel is a fairly trivial matter for those familiar to the command line, it’s not the same for everyone. Continue Reading »

I just got back from the midnight showing of Disney/Pixar’s latest flick, Wall•E. I’m here to recommend that you see it at your earliest convenience. I am no movie critic but I can easily tell you it was great and not more than a few minutes passed between theater-wide laughter (Rotten Tomatoes rates it at 98%). If you have a Mac or have worked with them, you’ll quickly notice a nice homage to Apple. Continue Reading »

It wasn’t too long ago that I was taking a look at the first Eye-Fi card: a 2GB Wi-Fi-enabled SD card that uploads pictures to configured computers and photo-sharing websites. I concluded that the Eye-Fi was a 9 out of 10. Since then, Eye-Fi has differentiated their products and now there are Continue Reading »

At the beginning of this month I wrote about my satisfaction with my new ISP, DirecPath. For only $20 per month I get a fiber line that I thought had throughput in the area of 26 megabits/sec down and 14 megabits/sec up. As you might be able to piece together from the title of this post, I was a bit wrong. Continue Reading »

When Firefox 3.0 was officially launched last Tuesday, I updated my copy of Firefox and installed a few select browser add-ons. This included my normal batch of add-ons like Firebug, YSlow, Delicious Bookmarks, and a recently discovered Quartz inline PDF plugin (nifty!). Then I found out about Feedly. Continue Reading »

Hot laptops are nothing new. Even with smaller processor fabrication, laptops keep getting smaller making it hard to effectively cool them without a large heatsink or loud fan. Case in point - my MacBook Air is a heater and it doesn’t help that the exhaust vent is angled down. I end up moving it around in various awkward lap positions while in classrooms with stadium seats that Continue Reading »

In the first part of this Going HD series I discussed the arrival of a 50-inch Samsung plasma HDTV as the core of my new HD setup. I’ve spent almost two weeks with the HDTV and I have no complaints thus far; it’s a stellar display. The only problem has been getting 1080p HD content on the display to really use it. Continue Reading »