Wed., Oct. 9, 2013
I got to speak to a bajillion middle school students at Glover Middle School's Discovery Days today about web development and digital journalism. I forgot what it was like to be a 7th grader. Favorite parts: 1. When I mentioned that video game programmers turn…
Wed., Oct. 9, 2013
If you haven't seen it yet, the NY Times' "What is the Higgs?" is a totally rad interactive graphic that explains what the Higgs-Boson particle is. They do it with style and their storytelling ability is top notch so you should check it out. I…
Tue., Oct. 8, 2013
If you haven't heard by now, there's a new gaming system called SteamOS that is trying to bring the world of PC gaming into the console-dominated living room. A custom Linux operating system that has been optimized specifically for video games, SteamOS is causing all…
Mon., Oct. 7, 2013
So some of your favorite government websites are shut down, such as the U.S. International Trade Commission (oh noes! Not the US ITC! How else am I supposed to search the current Harmonized Tariff Schedule?) I snarkily replied that it was "a completely nonsensical (from…
Mon., Oct. 7, 2013
Because I get asked this all the time, I thought I'd share with you the best way to identify a font. Does it look like Helvetica? It's probably Arial. Does it look like a restaurant menu? It's probably Papyrus. Does it look like the very…
Thu., Oct. 3, 2013
Google released a new app called, imaginatively, Google Web Designer. Being a web designer myself, I thought I'd take it for a spin and give you my thoughts. (Before we start, I should let you know of my pre-exisiting biases. As someone forced to use…
Wed., Oct. 2, 2013
Girls speaking Klingon and 16 Gig caches, writing in code with some dots and some dashes, Wood Elves with bows fighting dragons with wings, ... these are a few of the nerdiest things.--Jim Stone, local nerd Last week a friend made a joke on the…
Wed., Oct. 2, 2013
In case you haven't heard, the Federal Government is shut down for the moment. In a completely nonsensical (from a technical perspective) act, a bunch of federal websites have been taken down and replaced with this very welcoming message: In case you really, really needed…
Wed., Oct. 2, 2013
Our newsroom has an iPad Mini, codenamed "iPad Mini", for testing stuff. It's still using the archaic and antiquated iOS 6, so let's update it. First we open our Settings app. Then we go to General settings, and at the top we see Software Update.…
Tue., Oct. 1, 2013
Welcome to the Spokesman-Review's new Tech Deck blog, where we discuss all sorts of different nerdy things, with an Inland NW slant. As one of the online developers for spokesman.com, I fortunately/unfortunately cannot escape the moniker, so I might as well represent. One goal of…
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