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Let me Pitch My Business Idea to You

Let me Pitch My Business Idea to You

In collaboration with TMC, I am founding a Digital Innovation Hub (DIH) called TMC Insight Labs for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)

Rediscovering SQL

Rediscovering SQL

Over the last few months, I've been taking an online course in Data Analytics to introduce me to the field. This course...

Ecovative

Another example of life in its most basic forms, is this month's tech focus. Now when we think "basic", most people like to look to the past. Basic is where we're coming from; Advanced is where we're going. > Basic is where we're coming from; Advanced is where we're going. But

Never Ever Wet

Remember the magical water combatant spray I talked about in 2011? Never Wet [https://theredstringblog.com/never-wet]? Well, towards the end of last month, it finally went on sale in the U.S. According to Gizmodo [http://gizmodo.com/you-can-finally-buy-the-magical-spray-that-waterproofs-563613333] , you can buy it for $20 at any Home Depot,

The World Wide Web

The World Wide Web

Ever since we acquired the ability to easily and instantly share our lives with others over the Internet, there have been stories of inappropriate and mistaken sharing. From harmless cases like that of Randi Zuckerberg [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/26/randi-zuckerberg-photo_n_2365801.html] , to those with grevious

A Deviant Artist

A Deviant Artist

Some of you may already be familiar with deviantArt.com [http://deviantart.com/] and what it's for, but for the rest, let me give you a brief introduction. > deviantArt was created to entertain, inspire, and empower the artist in all of us. Founded in August 2000, deviantArt is the largest

Like Us

Here comes the almighty plug. The "word from our sponsors." The scene with the starving children in Africa who need your money, or the abused animals who need your tender loving care. Except... there are no animals, no starving children, and no sponsors. It's just me... and all I want

Words With Me

Now that we've talked about how important it is to know the right term [https://theredstringblog.com/the-right-term/], let me introduce you to my favourite game of late: Words With Friends [http://www.wordswithfriends.com/]. I play this game obsessively, night and day. I started playing the game after getting

Expanding My Dropbox

Expanding My Dropbox

It's always a great feeling when something you've given up on [https://theredstringblog.com/swift-4g], unexpectedly comes through. Some of you may remember how, about this time last year, I wrote an article about Dropbox [https://theredstringblog.com/do-me-a-favour-get-dropbox], unashamedly asking everyone to sign up using my referral link [http:

Slim Away

...And here you have it! An exercise-free way to work out your muscles - and proof that not only are people getting fatter, but they must be getting dumber as well. Because if these guys believe that using a stiff material to enforce body shape is a "modern invention", then

Technology Makes Us Stupid & Fat

Technology Makes Us Stupid & Fat

Some time ago, I was brainstorming with a friend to help her decide on a topic for her English paper, and the topic we came up with was the above. She felt it was too antagonistic and so decided to use milder phrasing: "Technology has done more harm than good"

Never Wet

I have seen the future, and it is NeverWet [http://www.neverwet.com/]. NeverWet is a super hydrophobic [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superhydrophobe] coating that can be sprayed on just about anything to make it water resistant combatant. That is to say this thing doesn't just resist water, it

21 Gun Salute for Steve

21 Gun Salute for Steve

With the death of Steve Jobs [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs], co-founder of Apple Inc. [http://www.apple.com] the world has lost another pioneer. The picture above taken at the white house shortly before his death, shows him and fellow pioneers, raising their glasses to the future

Backwards Compatibility

Backwards Compatibility

As a "computer person", it is an unspoken rule that I need to be on top of current technological events. Frankly speaking, I am terrible at this. I usually learn the latest news, not from tech news, but from friends in related fields. Granted, this is still in most cases,

High-tech, Shmy-tech

High-tech, Shmy-tech

Are you tired of the OS X [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X] vs. Windows [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Windows] argument? Or the iPhone [http://www.apple.com/iphone/] vs. Droid [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_Droid_X]? How about the iPad [http://www.apple.

The Language of Logic

The Language of Logic

One of the many things that bother me about the field of computer science, is the enigma [http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/enigma] that surrounds computer programmers. Few people understand who we are, even fewer understand what we do, and practically nobody understands how we do it. The first of

The Red String on Flipboard

The Red String on Flipboard

Here's a quick tip for all you iPad toting, Facebook using readers. There's a fantastic app on the iPad called Flipboard [http://www.flipboard.com/] which can make your reading experience that much more pleasant. I started using it the day I discovered it in the app store [http://www.

Facebook & The Wall

Facebook & The Wall

As for the Facebook [http://www.facebook.com/] where I read that article [https://web.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=10150163500422187], is it just me, or does it also irritate you when people disable their Facebook walls? I mean seriously, it's a problem. Facebook is all about social networking

Swift 4G

So my Dropbox ploy of last month [https://theredstringblog.com/do-me-a-favour-get-dropbox] was quite a failure. I'm glad I didn't hold out much hope in you guys. As it turns out, my space was being taken up by an iPod Photo Cache folder that iTunes [www.apple.com/itunes/] automatically creates

Do Me a Favour, Get Dropbox!

So my tech spiel for this month is a little self serving, and was inspired by a Lifehacker article [http://lifehacker.com/#!5796318/the-cheapskates-guide-to-getting-free-dropbox-space] . I want to talk to you a bit about Dropbox, and make no mistake my aim is to persuade you to sign up for a Dropbox

Xbox Kinect

So my brother Deji, bought the Xbox Kinect around the beginning of December. So far we only have a few games, Kinect Sports [http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-US/Product/Kinect-Sports/] which is similar to Wii sports - you can bowl, run track, long jump, and play a few other olympic

iOS 4.2

Apple's latest software update for its various mobile devices was released this past month on the 22nd. The 4.2 update brings a few interesting features to the iPhone, iPod, and iPad. Features such as Airplay, Game Center, and Multi-tasking . These 3 features are the ones that I've personally found

The Desktop

Now let's talk about the Desktop... Or rather, desktops. You see the Macbook has this feature called Spaces, it also has Expose, Dashboard, and something called Spotlight. Between these 4, making your way around the computer quickly, easily, and effectively, is a simple task. That is, if you use all

The Keyboard

The first time you look at your Macbook keyboard, you will notice a few differences. There is now a Command key where Ctrl used to be. There is still a control key but only one - on the left side. The Alt key has become the Option key with the

The Touchpad

The Macbook touchpad is really an interesting piece of work. Its mode of operation is fundamentally different than that of a Windows touch pad. In fact, it may be more accurate to call it a finger pad because everything you do with it seems to revolve more around the number