Monthly Archives: November 2015

An Interview with MP3.com Founder Michael Robertson On The Launch Of His New Venture: Onrad.io

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Longtime entrepreneur Michael Robertson founded MP3.com at the dawn of the digital music industry. He now returns with a new startup – Onrad.io – which aggregates a vast number of online radio streams in order to provide listeners with not only the precise song they want, but a steady stream of music curated by actual djs. In this conversation, George Howard discusses not only this new startup, but also Michael’s views on entrepreneurship generally.

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Use AutoCorrect In Microsoft Office To Create Your Own Boilerplate Responses

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AutoCorrect is a pretty amazing thing…most of the time. I’m not a huge fan of the autocorrect function in iOS all the time—or it’s tendency to correct words that are actually spelled correctly because Siri thinks some other word should go there instead. In general, though, I appreciate being able to just hammer away on the keyboard and let Microsoft Word make those minor corrections for me on the fly. Recently, though, I started using the AutoCorrect function of Microsoft Word in a completely different way.

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Sony Makes Seventh CPU Core Available To Developers According To Recent Update

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Both of the major current generation game consoles – the Microsoft Xbox One and Sony PlayStation 4 – are powered by octal-core APUs (accelerated processing units), built by AMD. Though the APUs in each console share some architectural similarities, the chips and their memory configurations are quite different. Something that both Sony and Microsoft have done, however, is reserve CPU cores for use by their console’s respective operating system. Dedicating cores to the OS ensures it always has resources available and it makes for more predictable performance when navigating through each console’s various menus and options.

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A Series Of Unfortunate Tech Predictions – Blockchain

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It’s the time of year when futurists and all manner of tech analysts decide to break out the crystal ball and make some predictions for the coming months and years. Of course, I’m no different, but I don’t need the title of futurist to do it. I’ve decided rather than write one long-winded article about several trends, to break it up a little and write a series of shorter articles tackling each one I see having a major impact on both businesses (vendor and end client alike) and consumers in general.

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Three Important Lessons For The Music Industry, As Taught By Coldplay’s Latest Music Video

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The new music video for Coldplay’s “Adventure of a Lifetime,” the first single from the band’s upcoming album A Head Full Of Dreams, is an extravagant effort on the part of Coldplay to flex their creative muscles and assert their relevance in an increasingly digital world. Released yesterday on Youtube, the video was created in collaboration with the Imaginarium, a British performance capture studio that has worked on international blockbusters like Rise of the Planet of the Apes, and Mathematic, a Paris-based visual effects, animation, and motion design studio with previous experience in making music videos for Rihanna, Drake, Snoop Dogg, and Alt-J. The two studios wielded their forward-thinking design and tech skills to paint a much more primal picture: Coldplay as a band of singing and dancing chimpanzees.

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Cyber Monday deals: Acer Chromebook 15 for $249.99

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While small and light is definitely the bread and butter of Chromebooks, sometimes a large high-resolution screen is the answer, and the Acer Chromebook 15 is one of the only options that fits that bill in Chromebook land.

At $349, the full HD version of the Acer Chromebook 15 with Intel processor is a little on the pricey end of things for a Chromebook (ignoring the Pixel, anyway), but today the 32GB SSD version will only set you back $249 direct from Acer. And if you want a dedicated Chromebook to use around the house it is a pretty fantastic device. If you don’t care about extra storage and are an Amazon diehard, you can get the 16GB SSD model for the same $249.

It comes with 4GB of RAM — which should really be the minimum allowable — a 32GB SSD, HDMI out, 1 USB 2.0 and 1 USB 3.0 port. The speakers are also notably better than most I’ve found on Chromebooks, due in no small part to the extra space available for them.

I’ve been using this exact model for the last few months, and while it isn’t the sort of thing I would want to travel with, it has been an awesome laptop to have around the house for watching video and getting work done.

The larger high-resolution screen allows for truly useful side-by-side windows, as opposed to the often cramped quarters on Chromebooks. The Intel processor coupled with 4GB of RAM is plenty of power to keep Chrome OS running smoothly, even if you have my habit of opening a completely irrational number of windows and tabs.

If you have any questions about the Chromebook 15, just let me know in comments and I’ll answer as best I can.

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