Articles By: ericjmartin

Get Serious About Backing Up, Part 1, the RAID

Everything in our world is going digital, and that means that the information we store on our computers and hard drives is getting larger all the time, and doubly as vital to our future. This article is the first in a series peering into how profession tactics to create large reliable storage can be...
July 14th, 2009 | How To... | Read More

Jolicloud Enters Closed Alpha Testing

As a follow-up to our story last week about netbook operating systems, today we have the opportunity to enter another contender to the ring, Jolicloud. We’ve been following the development of the design oriented OS closely and today they’ve announced the start of alpha release testing. It’s...
June 2nd, 2009 | Randomness | Read More

Palm Pre Launch Date Announced

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May 19th, 2009 | Cell Phones | Read More

Sky Map for Android Provides Moving Planetarium

Google announced a new tool today at one of their Searchology events for their mobile phone operating platform, named Sky Map, an aid to night sky viewing. This innovative application is yet another clever integration that exhibits how mobile smart phone sensors combined with internet access can provide...
May 12th, 2009 | Cell Phones | Read More

Wolfram Research shakes Google in its Booties

Stephen Wolfram, famous mathematician and author,  made an announcment today that soon a new type of search engine will be unleased upon the world. In a talk at Harvard, the man repsonible for educational technologies like Mathematica, the scientist demoed a new search engine that returns results of...
April 28th, 2009 | The Internet | Read More

Google Rolls Out News Timeline, Similar Image Search

Those nutty programmers over at Google labs released two new features to the world yesterday, similar image search and news timeline. They seem to have busy this past winter, and these new features likely won’t disappoint. Google news timeline aims to create a rich user interface that gives us...
April 21st, 2009 | The Internet | Read More

Technology and Education – A Great Toolset

If you’re trying to get a job done, naturally you want the right tool for the job. In the world of computing and tech, we often see that people use tools they’re comfortable with rather than the most appropriate program. It’s natural, but would you use a hammer to put a screw in just...
April 21st, 2009 | How To..., The Internet | Read More