What good are LinkedIn recommendations?
In this economy and job market, it pays to be proactive in keeping your professional profile up-to-date. On LinkedIn, this means seeking out recommendations from your supervisors, direct reports, and co-workers.
The article...
The science of Star Trek
Today's launch of the new Star Trek movie bodes well not just for Paramount and movie theaters, but also for geeks and engineers. Though Gene Roddenberry intended his "Wagon Train to the stars" as a message of hope for humanity, the...
The first Easter egg
Before we all go home for a holiday weekend, check out Computerworld's video gallery of ten Easter eggs in action.The name "Easter egg" comes from the Easter tradition of hiding chocolate eggs for children to find. It has a similar...
MIT's vision of 2019 doesn't account for the Wii
The cover story on today's Computerworld is "The PC of 2019". The article features a video that demonstrates developers at MIT employing a combination of software and hardware to make computing ubiquitous, as they snap photos and...
AT&T predicted the future. Can Microsoft?
The past century was filled with optimistic predictions of how quickly technology would progress. Flying cars? Moon colonies? Robotic servants to free humanity of day-to-day drudgery? None of that's happened yet, much to our...
Macworld doesn't need Steve Jobs
The industry is abuzz with doom and gloom: No Steve Jobs at Macworld '09! No Apple at Macworld '10! No Christmas for good girls and boys!
No doubt the fanboys will decry Philip Schiller as Macworld's keynote speaker, saying that...
Mac OS X updated to 10.5.6 -- should I care?
Mac OS X v10.5, aka Leopard, was released on October 26th, 2007. When people first upgraded, I recall hearing more complaints than is typical of a major Apple OS release. My own efforts were plagued with lost passwords, broken...
The iPhone kill switch -- it KILLS you
Speak to someone outside the corporate IT industry, and they might not have heard of Computerworld. At best, my friends confuse my workplace with our sister publication, PC World; at worst, they think I've joined the glamorous world...
From my cold dead hands
I recently attended KansasFest 2008, a convention that celebrates the endurance of the 30-year-old Apple II computer. The new applications for old hardware continue to astound me; many innovations, such as the 17-CPU "AppleCrate"...
WarGames returns to theaters for 25th anniversary
In 1983, personal computers were in an exciting infancy. The Apple II, Commodore 64, TRS-80, and more made for a diverse digital landscape in which to explore, create and hack. We didn't know what "security" meant other than...
Google Maps now offering walking directions
I've never suggested it to anyone, but I always wished there was an online mapping service that complemented its driving directions with walking ones. In Massachusetts, we're accustomed to a variety of perplexing and congested...
iPhone 3G: Will It Blend?
Some iPhone 3Gs are reported to be nothing more than iBricks. Hours of troubleshooting later, when frustration has reached the breaking point, there's only one sure solution left. Blendtec has the answer: Though I'd first recommend...
The day the 2D died
I spent this past weekend at the Funspot Arcade, soaking in the experience and environment of Eighties digital entertainment. With so many classic games drowning each other out, it wasn't the best environment to appreciate the...
Rosetta-free makes life merry
I love old hardware and software, going as far as finding modern applications for an Apple II. But this time, my stubbornness was giving me more pain than pleasure. My day-to-day computer has been getting slower and slower as of...
Five reasons why GS/OS beats Vista and OS X
Everyone is tossing their favorite operating system into the ring: Mac OS X, Linux, Windows Vista, Windows XP. But our recent OS smackdown overlooked my operating system of choice: GS/OS. So, in the style of Preston Gralla, I...
Old school tax refund
Most American taxpayers can expect an "economic stimulus incentive" check of $600 and an average tax refund of $2300. What's a geek to do? Why, buy toys, of course! Computerworld recently solicited its editors for suggestions of...
Anatomy of an Apple IIc
For a 1 MHz machine, the Apple II sure has been a hot news item lately. First, Dan Budiac bought one for $2,600, inspiring us retrocomputing enthusiasts everywhere to get back to basics. Then, as long as we were plumbing the depths...
Getting started with the Apple II
I recently interviewed Dan Budiac, a Web developer who picked up an Apple II on eBay. That in itself is nothing unusual; nostalgia strikes all of us at one point or another. What makes Dan's story newsworthy is the computer a...
A very geeky Valentine's Day
Happy Valentine's Day to peerless geeks everywhere. For those of us who are more likely to spend the holiday in the warm bask of Captain Janeway or the Terminatrix, here's a compilation of heart-themed webcomic strips to make you...
Hollywood meets MIT
Tomorrow sees the release of Jumper, a movie about a young man (Hayden Christensen) who can instantly teleport to anywhere on the planet. He soon discovers this power puts him in the middle of two warring factions: people like him,...
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