Category Archives: Technology

Resistance is futile

Posted on February 22, 2013 by Fred Stiening

As much as the iPad has changed the world, it is about to change again x 10 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1uyQZNg2vE Many questions flow from technology running way ahead of the law. Will it be legal to drive a car while wearing these? … Continue reading →

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Behold the iRadio

Posted on February 6, 2013 by Fred Stiening

The owner of Emmis Radio has long asserted that most portable devices have always had the ability to receive FM radio broadcasts and the people selling them deliberately chose to not use the capability. In the case of Apple, the … Continue reading →

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1 Gb / sec to the home

Posted on January 29, 2013 by Fred Stiening

https://fiber.google.com/features/ So how’s that for shaking things up? Combine that with the FCC trying to free up 200 MHz of spectrum for WIFi and the world is about to change again

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Looking for a job working for iHeartRadio?

Posted on January 23, 2013 by Fred Stiening

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Fun with Siri

Posted on July 13, 2012 by Fred Stiening

I gave in and committed myself to another two years of freedom with an iPhone. The current model has a very clever thing called Siri that is a voice activated assistant – intended to do things like “invite bill to … Continue reading →

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Non-Local Local Radio

Posted on July 9, 2012 by Fred Stiening

This YouTube video is instructive if you want to understand where “Local” music radio is headed. StorQ is the product being promoted by Dial Global – ChristianFM just happens to be one of the companies using the product – Jack … Continue reading →

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DNS Changer day

Posted on July 5, 2012 by Fred Stiening

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/07/05/dnschanger_botnet_shutdown/ This story is interesting for a lot of reasons.   First the technical details, as non-technical as I can make them…. When you do things on the internet (including the web) there is a process that goes on behind that … Continue reading →

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Podcasts App

Posted on June 28, 2012 by Fred Stiening

This could be the Talk Radio killer. A large part of America now own an iPod Touch, iPhone or iPad. Up until now, “podcasts” have been stupidly complex and intimidating.  In the iUniverse, that meant switching between two apps, one … Continue reading →

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Who protects us from our protectors?

Posted on June 28, 2012 by Fred Stiening

Sarah Palin’s email account was “hacked” when some kid reset her password.   All it took was correctly answering a challenge question, one that a trivial amount of research turned up. Challenge questions are not there to make your account … Continue reading →

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End of Nations

Posted on June 27, 2012 by Fred Stiening

Last weekend was the debut of another “The World is Ending and Civilization is about to end, what will you do?” movies…    Unlike Hunger Games, I didn’t bother writing about it. Just now, I was bombarded with an ad for … Continue reading →

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