January 2012
Small But Digital - The MidiBus
November 2011
Why Johnny Can’t Opt Out: A Usability Evaluation of Tools to Limit Online Behavioral Advertising
We present results of a 45-participant laboratory study investigating the usability of tools to limit online behavioral advertising (OBA).We tested nine tools, including tools that block access to advertising websites, tools that set cookies indicating a user’s preference to opt out of OBA, and privacy tools that are built directly into web browsers. We interviewed participants about OBA, observed their behavior as they installed and used a privacy tool, and recorded their perceptions and attitudes about that tool. We found serious usability flaws in all nine tools we examined. The online opt-out tools were challenging for users to understand and configure. Users tend to be unfamiliar with most advertising companies, and therefore are unable to make meaningful choices. Users liked the fact that the browsers we tested had built-in Do Not Track features, but were wary of whether advertising companies would respect this preference. Users struggled to install and configure blocking lists to make effective use of blocking tools. They often erroneously concluded the tool they were using was blocking OBA when they had not properly configured it to do so.
October 2011
SwiftRing
September 2011
All Visual Arts - Charles Matton - Charles Matton: Enclosures
RMPrepUSB
August 2011
Best free data backup software. Hard drive backup and recovery freeware. Hard Disk image freeware.
AppFresh
July 2011
arthuredelstein/clooj - GitHub
June 2011
Distribute Ad Hoc Applications Over the Air (OTA)
The Pragmatic Studio | Installing Ruby 1.9 and Rails 3 on Mac OS X
April 2011
Future Farm: A Sunless, Rainless Room Indoors : NPR
the need for a product vs the cost of its productionOne of the more dramatic applications of plant-growing chambers under LED lights was by NASA, which installed them in the space Shuttle and the space station Mir in the 1990s as part of its experiment with microgravity.
March 2011
Android Apps: Walk and Text
Samsung installs keylogger on its laptops
ProjectPier.org
February 2011
What I want for my Mac | Monday Note
As described in a previous Note, I bought the family pack for OS X and iLife updates even though the ‘’single” version can be installed on any number of machines. That alone probably gets me into the lower tier of the Friendly Idiot database somewhere in Apple’s Cloud, but the fact that I also pay $100/yr for MobileMe upgrades me to Platinum status.
C'est là la grande force d'Apple.
January 2011
OpenSolaris 2009.06 won't run on v3.2.x? (View topic) • virtualbox.org
Note that such a panic happens in case you move an opensolaris installed /bootable hdd from one computer to another computer with different physicalhardware / device paths; opensolaris won't boot on the new machine; to fix ityou have to boot the new computer from the OpenSolaris LiveCD, and run"zpool import -f rpool". After that the hdd should become bootable in thenew computer.
A exécuter en tant que root évidemment, mot de passe opensolaris sur le Live CD.
Top 5 WordPress Security Tips You Most Likely Don’t Follow
December 2010
Communities Dominate Brands: Lets Understand the Mobile Phone Market, installed base and smartphones vs dumbphones
The world sees sales of 1.37 Billion mobile phones sold in just this past year! Only 22% of all phones sold this year were smartphones. The other 78% were what now is a bit dismissively grouped as 'dumbphones', which includes anything from very high-end featurephones (many non-smartphone featurephones in Japan and South Korea have more features and abilities than the best smartphones known in the rest of the world) to mid-priced phones to the ultra-cheap basic 'Africa phones'.
November 2010
Firecookie :: Add-ons for Firefox
Cookie manager for Firebug. Firebug has to be installed in order to use this extension. Use this extension to create a new cookie, delete existing cookies, see list of cookies for current site, manage cookies permissions and a lot more.
October 2010
Miscellaneous Symbols – Test for Unicode support in Web browsers
August 2010
ANTS in my scanner > a five years time-lapse! on Vimeo
I installed an ant colony inside my scanner five years ago.
I scanned the nest each week.
July 2010
digital signage software
How to prototype interactive iPad applications in 30 minutes or less using Apple Keynote | Amir Khella
June 2010

