You use paper towels to dry your hands every day, but chances are, you’re doing it wrong. In this enlightening and funny short talk at TEDxConcordiaUPortland, Joe Smith reveals the trick to perfect paper towel technique.
Seems to make sense.
(Source: brooksreview.net)
And for the toughest offenders, ramblers, Ms. Brownlee sometimes puts an Elmo doll in the center of the meeting table and tells participants, “Anytime anybody in the session thinks we’re getting off track, pick up the Elmo doll.” This allows co-workers to express frustration without interrupting, she says.
Meetings are the great alternative to actually working.
Just saying, “We have the fastest AP” is like saying, “I’m the best engineer.” It should be followed with the questions, “At what?” and “Under what circumstances?”
Such claims are OK if they are accompanied by detailed scenarios and use case descriptions, but a broad claim is easily disproven in the real world. Such bragging will only get worse with the introduction of 802.11ac of course, so expect more of it.
Before deploying an enterprise wireless network, I had no idea how complicated it could be. You go from being an IT nerd to trying to understand spectrum issues.
ESPN Radio has updated their iOS app to 4.0 and it now requires a $4.99 payment to keep listening (on top of having to have an ESPN.com login). I purchased the app a few years back for $2.99, so I understand why they are charging again. I don’t use it often enough to pay for it, so it got deleted. We are seeing more developers (even large ones) having to come up with ways to sustain revenue to keep working on their apps.
With iOS 6 likely to be announced in a few weeks, I thought I’d explain my wish list from an education/enterprise perspective. Apple has quietly beefed up what mobile device management systems can do with each version of iOS (a lot of new things in iOS 5).
1. The ability to disable automatic Software Update (or require passcode to download)
While I love the ability to do over the air iOS updates, I also want to control when it happens. I don’t want a student to be able to install an update that I have not tested with our mission critical applications.
2. Install apps wirelessly with volume purchase program codes with no interaction from end user
While a lot of MDM providers have the ability to push apps to devices, they still require the end user to enter an iTunes password. I want to be able to silently install (and update) applications without an end user having to do anything.
3. Google Apps style iCloud account creation
While I love iCloud for personal use, it is tough use to use in an education/enterprise setup. The users either have to create their own account (most won’t do it) or I have to do it and then I will be responsible for keeping up with their information. Google Apps gives me all the benefits of a Google account while also being able to have control (set permissions, reset passwords, etc). I would love to be able to do this for iCloud
4. Require pass code to enter Settings.app (or a toggle switch to turn off each setting individually)
This has become an issue with students using school owned iPads (cart scenario). Some of the students have found their way into the universal access section and changed some of those settings. I’d prefer to be able to lock them out of Settings.app in general. Apple currently allows me to lock down Mail, Twitter, and iCloud.
Apple Configurator is an app for the Mac that is made for iOS device roll outs. It also integrates into the Volume Purchase Program to help manage app licenses to particular devices. My question was what happens if I pick up an app that is temporarily free. Will Apple Configurator know that it was free when I bought it and therefore not require VPP codes? Here is the answer from an Apple engineer:
Apple Configurator checks to see if the app is free at the moment you import the app into Apple Configurator. If a free app is imported and Apple Configurator finds that it is no longer free, you will be required to import VPP app codes for it. If the app is still free as you import it then it stays free forever on that particular computer. Each computer does this check independently.
“Rather than having an initial reaction of, ‘How many problems is this going to cause?’ CIOs are now saying, ‘How do we make this work without putting the company at risk?’ There’s no longer a question of whether they should make it work—it is happening in just about every major financial institution.”
BYOD cannot be ignored by any industry.
Java and Flash are terrible. They are full of security holes that must be patched. I decided to try to do as little browsing with them as possible. You need Chrome installed for this to work.
2. Disable Java in Safai (Preferences > Security > Un check ‘enable Java’
3. Download Alfred.app
4. Load this AppleScript into it (I use keyword flashfree)
5. Anytime you come across that doesn’t work in Safari, fire up Alfred and type in flashfree and it will launch the current Safari URL in Chrome. Chrome uses its own Java and Flash plugins that they seem to do a decent job of keeping patched.
Inspired by true events, WORLD WAR///hack tells the story of how the U.S. Government gathers top computer hackers from around the country, under the guise of a hacking competition, to unknowingly help solve a pressing national security crisis. Little does the government know that eighteen-year-old hacker, Wyatt Dyer, is both the cause and solution to their crisis.
I got the digital copy yesterday. It’s a great read. If you order before 5/7, you get free S/H and a .pdf copy.
It is the 21st perfect game in the history of Major League Baseball. It is the third perfect game in White Sox history, the last coming from Mark Buehrle on July 23, 2009.
Fine update to a great application
The fair price for a product isn’t cost-of-goods plus (say) 10 percent. The fair price for a product is what people are willing to pay for it.
This is a great new podcast by David Caolo and Aaron Mahnke. I don’t even work from home and I really enjoy it.
Awesome.
“My model of management is the Beatles. The reason I say that is because each of the key people in the Beatles kept the others from going off in the directions of their bad tendencies.
“They sort of kept each other in check. And then when they split up, they never did anything as good. It was the chemistry of a small group of people, and that chemistry was greater than the sum of the parts. And so John kept Paul from being a teenybopper and Paul kept John from drifting out into the cosmos, and it was magic. And George, in the end, I think provided a tremendous amount of soul to the group. I don’t know what Ringo did.
Some lost interviews with Steve Jobs were recovered recently. What stands out most to be is the section about the differences between the valley and Hollywood. Steve understood it, and understood it so well that he knew he could not break it totally down.
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