Apple News: Apple Time Capsule vs. AirPort Extreme vs. AirPort Express – which should you choose?
You have an Mac, iPhone, or iPad, and now it’s time to Apple-fy (applify?) your network. Apple offers three devices suitable for home network routing: The AirPort Extreme, the Time Capsule, and the AirPort Express. Which one is best suited to your needs, and why? Let’s take a look.
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Technology News: Why Media Companies Are Competing On Their Content Technology Platforms
As the economies of scale continue to erode in the news business, large companies are struggling to maintain the business structures that were fundamental to winning in an earlier era. To win today, media companies are competing for journalists with large social media audiences who can predictably draw an audience to each article. The formula today seems to be that large media companies can win talent with their robust technology platforms. Eventually, however, this competitive advantage won’t persist as Medium, Google Google, and others develop better technology platforms for individual journalists that can match the power of the best technologies built in-house.
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Programming News: What is Important? (or, A Case Against the Grid Homepage)
Here’s a list of three things I did today:
- wrote this blog post
- ate a salad for lunch
- finished up some designs for a client
Which thing is the most important? Well, that depends upon the audience, doesn’t it? And, the way I present the list. For example, say I wrote the list this way:
- Finished up some designs for a client
- Wrote this blog post
- Ate a salad for lunch
You might conclude that #1 — finishing up those designs — is the most important thing.
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Photography News: The 20 photographs of the week
Luis Suárez, protests and Costa Rica at the World Cup in Brazil, the increasing violence in Iraq, London fashion – the best photography in news, culture and sport from around the world this week.
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