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The most intelligent people on the internet use this instead of Slack, Teams, or Discord

It’s not rocket science, but rocket scientists also use this to communicate. 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 other consumer communities. These are all, at their […]

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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 private messages on the server which means they’re not really private.  Some have suggested making them encrypted so that server […]

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How to make your own Delta Chat Email Server and compete with WhatsApp/Signal/Telegram

(Also published here: How to make your own WhatsApp, Telegram, or Signal competitor (pocketnow.com)) 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 Mastodon and the Fediverse). Or maybe […]

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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 my old Z desktop. They’re on another level when it comes to price points as well depending on the configuration […]

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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, federated systems are stronger, fairer, and more sustainable than centralized dictatorships. That’s exactly what the Fediverse is except instead of […]

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Fashion Tech

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 by about 500 preprogrammed quadcopters with bright colored lights. The drones were programmed to fly in specific patterns and light […]

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Design Tech

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 the 1980’s. Anyway, Wacom has always been the best of the best when it comes to a drawing interface for […]

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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 and design jobs that I’m used to. I did get to use the Panasonic Toughbook FZ-55 a while back though, […]

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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 interesting to me is how far ahead of Apple, actual smartphones were back 20 years ago. Yeah, Apple got a […]

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The new Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Fold (2022) is Awesome

The Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Fold is Lenovo’s next generation of large 16″ laptop tablet style folding screen devices. I got to see an early prototype of this model a while back, and seeing the new version is a huge step forward. It’s better in every way. There are still a few minor software issues to […]