There are hundreds of messaging apps out there these days. Slack is one that has recently become popular for business communications as has Microsoft Teams. Discord is another one that’s become popular with gamers and …
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Author: Adam Z. Lein
Designer & web developer since the mid 1990's starting on the DEC intranet. User experience consultant since 1998. Photographer since 1995. Tech journalist since 2002.
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The Fediverse should avoid bundling Private Messages completely and implement this instead.
Many servers in the Fediverse have implemented “private mentions” or “private messages” or “direct messages” in a manner that uses the ActivityPub protocol without encryption. Fediverse server administrators are able to read all of these …
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How to make your own Delta Chat Email Server and compete with WhatsApp/Signal/Telegram
If you’ve been watching what’s been happening to Twitter since it was bought out by Elon Musk, you might have recently realized the advantages of using more sustainable, federated, decentralized, and open technologies (Such as …
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The G5 HP Z Series Workstations are crazy powerful
I love using my HP Z series workstation during my day job of web design, environment design, animation, and brand identity design, but these new Z series workstations are on a much higher level than …
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Understanding Mastodon, the Fediverse, and why you should migrate from Twitter
The Fediverse is an incredibly good idea that should seem pretty obvious to anyone who has ever made a phone call, driven on roads, mailed a letter, sent an email, or browsed the web; decentralized, …
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Candy Crush Saga’s 10 Year Anniversary Party featured a 500 drone light show
On November 3rd, 2022 in New York City, Candy Crush Saga celebrates its 10 year anniversary with a small event at the Battery Park Esplanade and a big light show over the Hudson River performed …
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New York Comic Con 2022
New York Comic Con is back for 2022! As a post pandemic event, masks were still required, but barely anyone wore them. The panels were slightly smaller, no longer taking over Madison Square Garden and …
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Hands on with the 2022 Wacom Cintiq Pro 27
Ever since I started working as a graphic designer in the 90’s, I’ve always been fascinated with pen displays for computers. Well, maybe that love started with the Koala Pad on an Apple IIe in …
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Panasonic Toughbook 40 Review
A rugged hardcore portable computer Panasonic’s Toughbook series of laptop computers are mainly designed for the more rugged dangerous workplaces like military, law enforcement, or construction scenarios. It’s not meant for the indoor desk jobs …
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Apple’s iPhone may be 15-years-old, but this 20-year-old smartphone was way better.
This year Apple both celebrated the 15 year anniversary of their first iPhone and announced the discontinuation of their last remaining iPod product; something that was first launched 20 years ago back in 2002. What’s …
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