Five Geeky Gift Ideas for iPhone Owners
Do you know a geeky iPhone owner? Finding a gift for someone who appears to have everything is a really difficult thing to do. Gift giving is quite possibly one of the most stressful social situations we as a culture put ourselves in, and locating just the right gift for a geek can be even [...]
10 Tips for New Players in Minecraft
A Gnomie recently bought Minecraft and asked for some tips in the Gnomies Facebook group, so Chris pointed them in my direction. Since there are many people who buy Minecraft and then have no idea what, where, or how to start with the game, I figured I may as well share these tips with the [...]
Geeky High School Graduate Gift Ideas
So, your teen is about to cross the platform, accept their diploma, and head out into either the working world or college. Choosing the perfect gift for your graduate can be a tricky task. After all, what do you give someone who’s heading off into the world for the first time? Well, we have a [...]
Raspberry Pi: Will You Take a Byte?
As one of the most unique and exciting products to be released this year, the Raspberry Pi has certainly gained a lot of interest. While the original purpose for the development of the Raspberry Pi was to provide an affordable device for British kids to learn about computer programming, it has now become so popular [...]
Give Yourself a Charge with the New Silicon Power Cell
Anyone who has traveled through our nation’s airports is well aware of how problematic it may be to find a charging station for your smartphone or other device, and if you do manage to find one, there is often a fee attached. This problem is compounded for those of us who fly coach where there [...]
Are You Seeing Ads on Wikipedia? It Could Be Malware
The extension you installed on your browser could be injecting ads into your favorite websites — even the ones that never feature advertising at all. This discovery led to a blog post by Philippe Beaudette of Wikipedia explaining that any appearance of advertisements on the site may be the result of ad-injecting malware installed on [...]
How I Consume the News (Without the Television)
While I was growing up, it seemed to be a family tradition to sit down for dinner with the TV on. Usually, the night’s news was what flashed across the screen. That was how I stayed current with the latest happenings in the world. Nowadays, I see a flaw with that method. I was really [...]
DSLR Cameras Vs. HD Camcorders for Video
Recently, I’ve found myself scouting around for a new prosumer video camera in hopes of finding something that is capable of capturing excellent video, above-average audio, and all with as little rolling shutter and moiré issues as possible. To my surprise, I discovered that HD camcorders are not the only big kids on the block [...]
Why Web 1.0 Needs to Make a Comeback
I’m quite young — 18 years old, but still quite young. Nevertheless, I was also introduced to the Internet and the Web at a very early age, so I can personally say I have grown up alongside it all. I remember way back when there was no Twitter or Facebook or even Wikipedia. Google was [...]
How to Get the Adobe Creative Master Suite for $49
Back when Adobe launched its subscription software program during CS 5.5, I was excited to see that a company or individual could essentially rent the software at a fraction of the actual buying price. That means short projects or off-and-on necessity could make it possible for you to pay for just the time you use [...]
Online Privacy: Is Sweden a Dystopia?
What is a dystopia? It is usually an imagined universe in which oppressive societal control and the illusion of a perfect society are maintained through corporate, bureaucratic, technological, moral, or totalitarian control. In Sweden, every citizen is a number inside a computer, literally. A scenario like in the film THX 1138 is pretty much what [...]
Microsoft’s Humantenna: the Next Big Thing in Gaming?
Guest blogger Lance Seidman writes: It should be no surprise that the gaming industry is growing every day as it attracts new types of gamers and programmers from every walk of life and mainstream media coverage upon the release of hotly anticipated games becomes more commonplace. Even Mom and Dad aren’t left out when there [...]
Open Source Weight Loss Week 1: the Rollercoaster
I’ve completed the first week of a year-long project involving sharing any and every detail of my attempt to lose weight and improve my overall health. This week is full of highs and lows as my body adjusts to a sudden increase in activity. As per the advice I’ve received from numerous exercise sites, I’ve [...]
Five Reasons to Shop Online
Online shopping has grown in popularity over the years due to its various advantages and benefits over traditional shopping at brick and mortar establishments. Matt Ryan’s recent LockerGnome article about pushy salespeople exposes a major disadvantage in shopping at conventional stores, particularly ones that specialize in technology. We all know the frustration and annoyance felt [...]
10 Favorite Music Creation Apps for iPhone and iPad
I like music. There really isn’t much more to it. I have self-taught keyboard, flute, clarinet, and a few other members of the woodwind section. I don’t consider myself great and I certainly don’t consider myself a professional. I play music because I enjoy it and that, in my opinion, is how it should be. [...]
Updated Google OS: Why You Will Like It
On April 16, 2012, I wrote an article, New Google Chrome OS: Admission of a Mistake? in which I stated that it appeared that Google had given up on the idea of a browser-only operating system. At the time, I also mentioned my disappointment with Google for not offering the new OS to those of [...]
Compromised Contacts Can Cause Confusion
It has happened again. Things seem to go in waves, and right now people who I know seem to be involved with a wave of compromised contacts in their email accounts. Last week, my wife received an obviously bogus email from a friend. She returned a quick warning, but I suspect her friend had already [...]
Dead Drops Offer Global Offline Anonymous File Sharing Network
It’s one of those cyberpunk ideas that sounds almost impossible to implement on any global capacity, but Dead Drops are very real — and over 800 of them exist around the world with more being added every day. USB Dead Drops are a modern take on an old spy practice of dropping a message in [...]
10 Advantages of Using GoToAssist for IT Professionals
This is a sponsored post written on behalf of Citrix. All opinions are 100% my own. As more small companies begin to depend more on information technologies, the need for viable, inexpensive IT support solutions becomes a must. Small IT teams can support multiple businesses simultaneously thanks in part to modern cloud-based solutions including GoToAssist [...]
The Science of Momentum in Portal 2
This may be a slightly strange subject for LockerGnome but I found it interesting. Fellow Gnomie Kat Shaw and I have started designing test chambers — after helping Matt Ryan with his article yesterday — and we’re trying to make them as devilishly deadly and difficult as possible. The test chambers we’re designing will use [...]
