“One only needs two tools in life: WD-40 to make things go, and duct tape to make them stop.” — G. Weilacher “It is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.” — Albert Maslow As I’ve mentioned before, I love reading every new post [...]
Posts tagged with "open source"
Are creativity and intellectual property rights inversely proportional?
[Direct link for non-Flash devices] Johanna Blakley‘s research concerns itself with the impact of intellectual property rights on cultural production (she also researches the entertainment industry and celebrity culture). In this really interesting TED talk, she looks at how the fashion industry has been affected by its complete lack of IP protection (you can protect [...]
Why Apple’s iPad will be very, very successful
Sometimes, the prevailing discourse on the Internet makes one want to despair. Blog post after blog post of the same drivel. It often feels as though the ‘blogosphere’ is a little like The Island, a 2005 movie where Ewan McGregor and Scarlett Johannson wear futuristic clothes and live in a hermetically sealed underground compound. Everyone [...]
What makes a smartphone successful?
It’s been more than a month since I last blogged here. I took some well-deserved time off during December. Since last time, I’ve bought an Apple iPhone (more hipster stuff) and Google launched its Nexus One phone. Coincidentally, both happened on the same day but there was no intentional relationship between these events (unless Google [...]
Thoughts about Google Chrome OS beta
The thing that could change everything may not be a smartphone, contrary to what most technology pundits think. Instead, it may be an incredibly simple PC operating system from Google where everything is stored in the cloud. Released late last week as open-source beta code, Chromium OS (the ‘generic’ open source name of what’ll eventually [...]
Brilliant stuff: Read It Later Firefox extension
There are so many applications that facilitate saving and sharing bookmarks that it seems almost trite to mention yet another one. But Read It Later does some clever stuff and meets a very specific need for me, so I thought I’d pay it forward. Read It Later is a Firefox extension that places a little [...]
Open-sourcing the inkjet scam
Inkjet printer cartridges – photo courtesy of Pixi via Wikimedia Commons Inkjet printer cartridges contain a tiny little amount of liquid ink and cost a fortune. Actual calculations vary across the web, but the consensus seems to be that printer ink costs anywhere from $4,000 – $8,000 per gallon. This makes it more expensive than [...]
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Carsten Knoch
Software and services professional, attentive music listener, vision enabler, instigator, reader of books and the web, vegetarian, affordable audio hobbyist, thinker, writer, blogger, tinkerer, Internet dweller since 1992. Human being since 1970.
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