Surround sound makes the movie theater experience worth the price of admission. Last year, I convinced my wife we should have a theater in our house. I had spent the preceding year learning as much as I could about theaters. I had a small budget to work with considering I…

A DDOS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack uses multiple connections to stop access to a website or internet service. These attacks use many computers to complete the attack. These computers can be PC, Macs, servers, video game consoles, and even smart home devices. The hackers need a device with a…

In 2008 a small company called Evernote made a big impact on the note taking industry. I remember installing Evernote. I would snap pictures of things I needed to remember. Then I would save them to my Evernote account. I remember this because Evernote introduced me to Optical Character Recognition…

Digital minimalism helps minimize anxiety and find more time for the things you love. Digital minimalism requires taking a deep look into the habits you’ve formed with your devices. You need to find what you can’t live without. Then get rid of the rest. There’s 3 places you should start…

As you sit down on the couch, you turn on House of the Dragon. You used the built in HBO app on your TV. You know it works but you’ve never thought about how. You assume there is a computer in there. Your assumption is right. But they’re not like…

A firewall is your protection from the internet Another place you might be familiar with a firewall is in your house. When a house with a garage is built, it needs a fire rated wall. The materials used to build the walls are fireproof. These walls protect your house from…

The original concept of the iPhone didn’t include an app store. Steve Jobs’s idea of apps for the iPhone was to use websites as apps. This didn’t take off. Instead, they built the app store specific for the iPhone. The App Store ended up being a huge revenue stream for…

Spatial audio is surround sound for headphones. A major benefit of watching a movie at a theater is the sound. You’re able to be immersed in the movie because the sounds are accurate. The theater gives you sounds from above, in front and to the sides. This same surround sound tech is available on headphones. Spatial audio…

SANs were created to solve data shares. In the old days, a server would host its own storage. As tech has progressed, application reliability became as issue. When your data and application is on 1 server it becomes a problem fast. IT needed a way for the data to be…