Computing, Technology

Karen Sandler on Open Source and Medical Technology

Karen Sandler reflects on her personal experiences with the issue of proprietary software in medical devices.

At OSCON 2011, Karen Sandler (executive director of the Gnome Foundation) talks about how patients should make an effort to understand the software their surgically implanted devices use.

How to Tell a Company to Support FireFox

If a company you do business with still has not implemented FireFox support on its web site, send a polite yet determined request.

Dear [Company],

Smarter Microphone Use for Recording Presentations

Introduction

The inspiration for this article came from watching numerous DrupalCon and other Drupal-related videos that had a hand-held video camera recording the presenter's voice from a distance, rendering the audio unintelligible.

The video aspect of presentations will be addressed in a separate article.

Web-Only Research: Convenience, Laziness or Ignorance?

I am repeatedly disturbed by people actually believing that they can in any way verify the authenticity of news online, or that they can do reliable research on the Internet.

Back in the Saddle, Experimenting with OpenCalais and RDF

After getting back to civilization, I feel like stepping into the future and implementing semantic web capabilities on some of my sites.

Electronic Musician: Build a Laptop Studio on Any Budget

Electronic Musician gives a few pointers on setting up a laptop music studio for any budget.

Planet Drupal TV Now Feedcasting

Planet Drupal TV aggregates multiple Drupal video sources.

Quick Drupal update today: http://www.planetdrupal.tv is now online, with videos pulled from 12 different feeds. You can see what is popular and sign up to participate in forum discussions.

Thesitewizard.com Misinformation on Drupal

Thesitewizard.com's Christopher Heng makes setting up and using Drupal seem dramatically more difficult than it really is.

Elgg, MediaWiki, Drupal Overlap

As many developers have pointed out, Elgg and MediaWiki functions can be easily replicated in Drupal.

Zacker.org had a great article on the subject:

Useful Drupal Modules: Print, AddThis, Simplenews, Twitter

The availability of an immense variety of modules for it shows the ubiquity of Drupal.

Drupal Updates, Multisite, Access Control

Easily migrating multiple Drupal sites into one installation was just as easy as fixing an Access Control Module bug.

All Hail the Power of Drupal

The more I use Drupal, the more projects it becomes the solution for.

Drupal, Elgg, Moodle: A Powerful Learning Management System

Drupal and Moodle have always been top players in their respective fields of content management systems (CMS) and learning management systems (LMS), making the idea of integration a powerful one.

A Note on Linksys WRT54G eBay Sales

All you non-geek, uninitiated owners of Linksys WRT54G routers who plan to sell your devices on eBay: bother not with posting a picture; you will impress the most with a serial number.

Drupal Update Is Seamless

The ease of update to 6.3 just furthered my confidence in sticking with Drupal

Crossing the Finish Line with Drupal

Leaving with home-cooked PHP code and traveling with TYPO3 and Joomla, Drupal finally gets me there.

Dvorak is Wrong on One Laptop Per Child

PC Magazine columnist John C. Dvorak misses the point in his criticism of the One Laptop Per Child project

Dating Site Scams

There are many people out there trying to find their dream partner online, but it takes a lot of hard work and a healthy dose of suspicion to sort through all the smoke and mirrors of scammers.

Here are some things to look out for in your onlie quest for true love. Not every sign by itself is an indicator of a scammer, rather, watch out for a combination of signs.

Do I Want My iTV?

Apple's iTV: yet another device in the home theater arsenal to mess with?

Adware Attacks

The battle is on to defend your computer

BusinessWeek has an excellent article that is definitely a wake-up call for many computer users who have not been aware of the extent of the adware/spyware problem. Unfortunately, preventive security measures are a quintessential fact of Internet life. If your PC is connected in any manner to the web, it is at risk.

It's All About The Substance

A millennia-old biological necessity of living beings is approached from the high-tech engineering angle

Instant Worms Through Instant Messages on MSN Messenger

The popular chat application is a culprit in spreading worms by exploiting users' contact lists

The iPods of the Future?

While far from being official or endorsed by Apple, these designs by devotees of the iPod express what many users want in future versions

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