Last September, I was asked to be interviewed by CBSPhilly.com for a segment they do called “Defend Your Ride.” Philadelphia local and friend, Michaelangelo Ilagan met me on South Street for a photo shoot and the interview. I almost forgot about it until this morning – when I woke up to find my face on Continue Reading »

This past Thursday, Apple applied for another patent. This time it was for the technology to use a mobile device’s orientation sensors to help correct photo problems.To fix problems such as tilt, the patent uses gyroscopes, compasses, or accelerometers to determine the device’s orientation. The photo could then be corrected on the fly, as it Continue Reading »

Some three-and-a-half years ago, Apple filed for a patent on the iPhone. Apple finally received its long sought-after patent on Tuesday. But the story doesn’t end there. Apple’s iPhone patent is so abstract, broad and far-reaching that if Apple decides to play hardball – it could squeeze out rivals rather than set up cross-licenses. “[a] Continue Reading »

ICANN ( Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ) has debated the domain name suffix for years, but allowing a more open selection has proven to be more than difficult. For years, URLs have been limited to a select few, .com, .net, etc. Over the years we have seen a few others pop up, Continue Reading »

This tutorial came to form for the sole purpose that I did an experiment that combined this technique and CSS Parallax ( which you can read here ) and realized that I should have created a more in-depth article on how to achieve this affect. In short this is a tutorial on generating organic randomness Continue Reading »

Today we celebrate Angry Birds Day! Angry Birds being the the second most popular mobile phone game of all time (next to Snake) gets its very own day. Today we put aside the OS war to honor our feathered friends that bring us together. Get out there and show your support for this great game. Continue Reading »

I’ve noticed over the years that there are a lot of websites that consist of horrendous code. I just never understood why people fail to validate their code. Writing error-free HTML is the best way to help ensure that pages render optimally in as many browsers as possible. This includes older, as well as, future Continue Reading »

Since its inception in Windows 95, I’ve always been a fan of the Run command. I was never big on making a huge taskbar nor loading my desktop full of shortcuts. The Run command allowed me to quickly access applications or documents in which the path was known (ie. the calculator or command prompt). When Continue Reading »

I was a fortunate soul to never have the discomfort in using Windows Vista, but from what I understand it is a very unpleasant experience. Having said that, there were some changes in the GUI coming from Windows XP to Windows 7. The toolbar changed in Windows Explorer. My personal preference while browsing through my Continue Reading »