Author Archives: alexknight

I admit to not using Google+ a whole heck of a lot. I do have a personal account and even my own page, but I just haven’t really had any incentive to use it much. What’s interesting though is in the little time I’ve spent on the service, I’ve been observing an increasing trend ofContinue reading “Why Are You Using Google Plus for Blogging?”

So Facebook lost its battle with the FTC on charges it was facing amidst privacy concerns. Concerns that have been going on for the last couple years. This is a huge deal, and I ultimately think this will help Facebook double their efforts in ensuring user privacy managed and communicated clearly to users. Stuff youContinue reading “Facebook, the FTC and Privacy”

I love writing in Markdown. In fact, anything I post here always starts off as a Markdown document (usually just in a plain text editor). As long as I can remember, I have always used a database driven CMS to run my weblog. When I first started out, I played with Tumblr, Posterous, Blogger, WordPress,Continue reading “Calepin: A Dropbox Powered Blogging Tool”

If you’re a comic fan to any degree, then like me, you would have literally jumped out of your comfortable office chair, fists facing the heavens while you screamed with joy when Marvel announced Joss Whedon would be directing the new Avengers film. As such, if your’e a comic fan, there’s a damn good chanceContinue reading “My Faith Restored for The Upcoming Avengers Film”

I’m starting to understand why Steve Jobs was so disapproving of streaming music services way back in 2003. A few months ago, I wrote about my experience with Rdio, a streaming music service. As a self-professed audiophile, I scoffed at the notion of sub-standard bit rates. Fast forward to today, and I’m starting to changeContinue reading “Thoughts on Streaming Music Services”

When I first heard that Google was going to be releasing a product called Google TV, I was extremely unnerved. The set-top box market was, and is, not doing well. Thus far, not a single person has been able to crack the TV market with something truly revolutionary. Other than offering a terrible user interfaceContinue reading “Why Google TV is Failing”

A once formidable company in the 60s and 70s during the Silicon Valley tech boom; now teetering on thin rope. If you just look at history, you would know that practically every engineer in their 20s wanted to work for Hewlett-Packard during that time period. Now, HP seems to be just an empty shell ofContinue reading “Hewlett-Packard: A Once Formidable Company”

It was with some trepidation that I’d been hesitant to test restoring my iPhone from an iCloud backup. I wasn’t able to find any details on what exactly gets backed up, however, I didn’t want to just assume that all data would get backed up, including my SMS messages (although those are less important). IContinue reading “Restoring My iPhone 4 from iCloud”

Given Google’s vast engineering driven culture, it seems obvious why they keep having a tough time putting out well crafted iOS apps. I think it’s too easy to chalk it up to the cliché’d expression of, “engineers are an anti-social bunch who are more functionality driven, rather than design driven.” Sure, that may be aContinue reading “Why Can’t Google Create Beautiful iOS Apps?”