How to update a cell based on date in excel and store that value A few weeks back I was asked to create a rule in Excel that would recalculate a cell’s value ONLY on Monday! And store that calculation. What? Hmm.. Then I thought, wait a minute, I should be able to do this in the cells directly. At first I tried to do this all in one… Read More
Virtual Reality Hackathon coming to SF. Why its different this time so get your Helmets ready Did anyone watch the Google IO conference broadcast, or better yet, was there? Hope you are enjoying your watches. But more importantly, are you enjoying your cardboard HMD? I have to admit, that caught me by surprise, but very cool! But the point of the VR glasses is to demonstrate Google’s VR Build Kit. I… Read More
Will Delete replace Erase in our common lexicon? I was listening to NPR and they played an interview with a futballer who answered a question misunderstanding vampire for umpire. After he realized the mistake he laughed and said please delete that. And it struck me, 10 years ago, we would said erase. I’m pretty sure whatever device they were using for the interview… Read More
How to overclock your calculator Now, have you ever been adding a bunch of numbers and thought, man this feel kinda slow. Never mind its so fast you cant even think straight before the screen updates, that not the point. ANYTHING is better when its faster. Well, almost anything. So I post a set of pics from imgur, via Reddit… Read More
Multiply numbers by drawing lines When I first saw this in Reddit I thought it was pretty cool, why it was posted as a Japanese Visual multiplication method I don’t know since there was nothing in the comments saying it was Japanese. But anyway, the idea is pretty simple. To multiply two numbers between 11 and 99 you simply draw… Read More
Categories: Five Points on How to Position Technology The following is a summery post from Hugh Seaton, you can go there to read the full version. However there are a few points I want to reinforce. When a company bring a technology to market, they have to think about how to talk about their offering.For a start-up company, this can be especially challenging… Read More
The “Yo” app is the most basic unit of communication. It’s still silly though During lunch I was having a conversation with a group of people at work around the app ‘Yo’. I’m sure you have heard of it by now, basically it is a simple 1 button app that sends the message “Yo” to someone(s) from your address book. The basic idea came from a request from an… Read More
How to make a monster pancake with a rice cooker Yes, you read that right. You can create a massive huge super monster pancake using your rice cooker. That is assuming you have one of course. If not, with a few modification you can use a bread maker as well. The cool part is you can add a number of ingredients like fruit, nuts, chocolate,… Read More
Filed under WTF; Comcast has turned 50,000 routers in to public hotspot WITHOUT permission This is so crazy, I really have to question if its true, but based on the story out of Seattle PI by Dwight Silverman, seems like this is really happening. Comcast is planning on turning 150,000 comcast routers in Houston into citywide wireless hotspots! And without prior consent! WTF?? According to Comcast, there is complete… Read More
A Super computer DID NOT pass the Turing test, point by point reasons why. I was just as excited as everyone else when I read on a post via Reddit that a computer program called Eugene passed for the very first time! Seems a supercomputer running a program called Eugene Goostman passed the Turing test during an event at the Royal Society in London. It convinced 33 per cent… Read More
The return of Reading Rainbow is on! The LeVar kickstarter effort crosses the $1 Million mark! Yes its true. In 24 hours ‘Bring Reading Rainbow Back for Every Child, Everywhere.’ kickstarter crossed the $1 million mark. As of this writing its past $ 2.5 million and still climbing! This is a great success for LeVar and his team in LA, but there is something larger here. The understanding that reading is… Read More
If you have not heard already, change your iphone password because of phishing hack The details are still dripping out, but it seems a hacker called ‘Oleg Pliss’ is accessing peoples iPhones by using your Apple iCloud account and invoke the ‘Find My iPhone’ service.’ Oleg will then lock your phone and charge you £55 to unlock it. There is not much you can do about it right now… Read More
How to toggle between 2 or more apps in Android using Tasker geared for Pebble users. I have a Samsung III. That means I cannot use a very simple but useful command that lets me load the last app used but not the current app. However, there is a way around this. In fact, you can do something even cooler if you are willing to put in the time. For this… Read More
Google Glass will sell out of all models. But not for pure demand, but speculators Like we used to see when Apple released a new iPhone it would sell out very quickly, then on ebay and craigslist there will be a flood of posts of people selling for .5, 1 or even 4x the original price. I have a feeling the same thing is going to happen with Glass. Even… Read More
How to open multiple command line windows in win 8 This was bugging me for a few days. Took a few times to look it up, so thought I would share here just in case someone else runs into this as well. Seems when you try open a window for the command line, anytime you try to open a new one, it simply brings you… Read More
How to lock and unlock your Android phone with your Pebble watch This is a very cool app. The way it works is very simple. When the phone detects that it is near the watch (makes a bluetooth connection), it unlocks the phone. When that connection is lost, it locks the phone up again. Sweet! Its called Pebble Locker and its not a Pebble app, but an… Read More
A fap gauge for Pebble. Really. Its called FapGauge. Genius Not much more I can say here. A fap gauge for the Pebble smart watch. FapGauge. Pretty straight forward: – up button starts recording – down button stops – long press on the select button erases the highscore Records how long you take, how many faps total end faps per second. The highest fps is… Read More
WHY would facebook buy Oculus.. Unless… Second life a la Facebook? Sounds crazy but perhaps not as much as you might think. The main expressed reason Facebook bought Oculus is the ‘platform’. Basically trying to get in front of the next shift in hardware. When Facebook launched they were king of desktop, but then mobile takes over and they had to play a bit of catchup. … Read More
SimCity 5 2013 for the Mac finally gets offline play Finally Mac people can play SimCity the way must of us prefer to play it, offline and with lockups. The next time you log into the game you should see the alert for update 10. Install it. Including offline play, here are a few more nice things. New: SimCity Single-Player Mode. Enables Offline Play. Single-Player Mode… Read More
How to make your Android phone faster, or at least feel faster Their has been a jailbreak hack that has been around for awhile that speeds up or removes animations on iOS devices that make your older phone feel a bit faster. Well turn out you can do this on Android as well without rooting or any other hacks. Its pretty simple. First find the ‘developer options’… Read More