Here’s a quick and easy way to use an HDTV as a second monitor for your PC or Mac. The ingredients we need: PC or Mac iPhone 4S or iPad 2 Apple TV. The Air Display app. Note: This trick requires AirPlay Mirroring, which (due to the processing power required) is currently exclusive to the [...]
Author Archives: JD Pruitt
How to get nutritional supplements for cheap
If you’re looking to get supplements for cheap, supporting the local health food store isn’t the place to go. And going into certain “General Nutrition Centers” (ahem) means that you’re walking out the door with a bill for several hundred dollars. Amazon.com has some great deals, but they are usually from multiple sellers – shipping can [...]
Best iPhone Applications
So you finally got rid of your clamshell phone, got an iPhone, and are wondering how you should set things up and what apps to first get? First: If you use Gmail, do not use this screen to add your account: Instead, follow the instructions here to get Google Sync up and running: http://www.google.com/mobile/sync/ That [...]
Glass like a Möbius strip – The Klein Bottle
Available at http://www.kleinbottle.com/
How you can help save with world with distributed computing
Distributed computing in a nutshell: PCs throughout the world are linked together to create a supercomputer. Each individual PC performs calculations and reports the completed data back to the server. This results in a massive amount of data being parsed to solve large problems – like human diseases, climate change, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. If [...]
Learn to code online – for free
The easiest way to start is with Code Academy and Stanford’s Programming Methodology Class via iTunes University. After the Getting Started with Programming section is complete at Code Academy, head on over to W3Schools and do some introductory Javascript tutorials. If you find the tutorials difficult, there’s a link to the HTML and CSS sections there, which will be helpful. You can [...]
