Archive for August, 2013

Manage jobs by exception with Pushmon.com

Meet PushMon. http://www.PushMon.com alerts you if something doesn’t happen. Specifically, it alerts you if your custom URL isn’t hit on user defined conditions. For example, you can create a custom URL and tell PushMon to alert you if it has not been access by 5:00AM CST daily. In your server jobs, you simply send a […]

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Listen to Wikipedia. No really, it’s actually very cool.

So over at http://blog.hatnote.com/post/56856315107/listen-to-wikipedia they are publishing a data representation tool that derives graphics and sound from real time activity on Wikipedia. It draws colored circles of various sizes and colors while also playing a sound that represents certain activity. Bells are subtractions while strings are additions. Purple circles are bots while white circles are […]

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The RavPower RP-WD01 is the vacation companion device you need

My wife and I don’t own a $1000 SLR digital camera. Instead, we have travel cameras that are small and use SD Cards for storage. We have a Samsung we like as well as a Kodak PlaySport that is due to be replaced.  When we travel, we’ll take a laptop for emergencies, but almost everything […]

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