Most licensed air traffic transmit a public signal rich with flight data that can be decoded by anyone with the right hardware and software. All of that is brought together as 7000+ volunteers keep tabs on airplane flights world-wide via a very cool website called FlightRadar24. Need to know where your flight is right now? Watch live traffic on-line free. There’s an app for that too. These are the days of miracle and wonder.
I’m using the Parrot Teleprompter App available on Android and iOS. It’s a simple and useful app for scrolling text in front of your camera. The app is free and quite useful, but it requires the use of a remote to get the most benefit from a teleprompter app. This is a review of the…
Back in 2009, a doctor named Robert Lustig was the first to put himself out on a professional limb and say we have problems with sugar in a Youtube video called Sugar: The Bitter Truth. It was a very long lecture using a lot of science terms that probably scared away half the audience out of fear of learning something hard and scared the other half numb with incredulity. In the original video he says that sugar (fructose especially) is the toxin that is causing our obesity epidemic.
When designing for a client who says they want a “Low Maintenance” yard, many of us have an idea of what Low Maintenance means, but the only thing that really matters is what the client thinks of the same. A long time ago, APGA (then called AABGA) had a great manual about levels of maintenance. …
HuffPost recently wrote about an art installation at Aspen Art Museum involving some tortoises with iPads glued to their backs. But there is controversy. Is it ethical to strap something unnatural to the back of an animal?
Filemaker 11 is certainly leaps ahead of previous versions. charts, scripted report creation, quick find, object inspector, object focus scripting, portal filtering and object badges are awesome editions to the pallet of tools available for data developers and designers. There are a lot of excellent reviews out there about what the latest version contains. However, there are a few features that could use some attention.
Facebook is becoming increasingly commercialized. On one level, it seems nice–even convenient. For instance, you could gift someone a set amount of money to donate to a charity of their choice. Or you could donate money to a specific charity on behalf of someone on facebook. But the first time I saw this, I wondered…
