Tyler Whitaker’s InfoTech

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!As many of you know, I recently spent 2 weeks in Peru and Ecuador seeing the sites and working on content for our new travel site, MunchkinTravel.com. We took our 4 year old with us and he had the […]

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As many of you know, I recently spent 2 weeks in Peru and Ecuador seeing the sites and working on content for our new travel site, MunchkinTravel.com. We took our 4 year old with us and he had the time of his life. Playing with the local kids and exploring a new world. Hopefully this […]

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Just to be clear, all of these conferences are great. I’m just not into them this year. It doesn’t work with the travel budget and I’m busy on other projects. But watching the coverage of all these other conferences has left me feeling a little like I’m missing out.
So, I thought I would cover […]

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Yesterday I had an interesting experience helping a good friend and neighbor set up some CATV wiring in his basement. Now I’ve done this kind of stuff in past jobs and even in my own basement. So you would think that there should be no problem whatsoever. Think again.
To be fair, he hasn’t had that […]

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I saw an interesting announcement today by id Quantique SA and Senetas Corp. Ltd. about a commercial application of quantum encryption. They claim 1 gigabit per second data rates in their prototype solution. I’ll be interested to see if these ‘Uncrackable’ claims can hold up to the scrutiny of the cryptography community.
Original Article: http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=196900575
Technorati tags: id […]

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Do you dream of living “Off the Grid?” Check out this solution for fresh water that is reminiscent of the moisture farms on Tatooine. Aqua Sciences, Inc. has a technology that can product up to 500 gallons of fresh water a day from the moisture in the air.
FEMA already have 2 of these $500,000 units […]

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Check out this video of a robotic dragonfly from the company Wow Wee. Just one more reason why I should be attending CES.
http://news.com.com/1606-12994_3-6150150.html?tag=ne.video.6150150 
Technorati tags: CES, Wow Wee, Robotic Flying Dragonfly

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What do you get when you combine the human intelligence behind Amazon’s MTurk and Google’s clean and accurate approach to web searching: ChaCha.com
For a search engine ChaCha.com provides a clean interface and good results. But what is interesting is the human intelligence that’s injected into the equation. Can’t find what you need with other search […]

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Steve Jobs made the big announcement at Macworld in San Francisco this week by unveiling Apple’s entry into the cell phone market. The unique take away’s for me is the new “multitouch’ interface that replaces that need for a stylus. And the fact that the iPhone runs a full-fledged version of Mac OS X. Now […]

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I just stumbled upon an interesting consumer voice mail business called GotVoice. They offer a free service to have your home of cell phone voice mail sent to your email in the form of an mp3 file.
I had this years ago at Echopass called unified messaging. We had voice mail and fax all sent to […]

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