Travis Newman

Category: Technology

  • Mobile/Desktop Experience

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    This is something that Ubuntu is already working on, and something you can partially get away with in Android. Right now, Ubuntu is working on a mobile version of their operating system, Ubuntu Touch.  While it can be installed on a variety of devices right now, much of the functionality is missing.  Lots of dummy…

  • More Dumb Terminals

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    I could be wrong when it comes to the HTPC proposal.  More and more TV’s are smart.  They have some operating system in them already.  Just augment that.  Make it a full up version of Android.  Maybe that’s what Google TV already is.  So long as you can access the content you need to access,…

  • Purpose for travnewmatic.com

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    To explore this vision of the future I see. I suppose it’s two ideas. 1) Tablet + Keyboard = laptop.  There are tons of examples like this out in the wild already.  Microsoft even makes a version.  Really, really dumb ad campaign, but what i’m doing right now is exactly that.  I have my Nexus…

  • The Future of the Desktop

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    You get home from school.  Customarily, it would be time to relax, but you’ve got to finish up paper and turn it in online before 8pm, so you go to your desk. You take your phone out of your pocket, plug it in to charge, set it down on your desk, and flop down in…

  • Display Brightness Keyboard Shortcut in OS X

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    So I’ve moved back into my parents place and I haven’t set up my main desktop, and its been a while since I’ve spent some quality time with my iMac G4, so I figured, why the heck not. I had originally set it up with the Apple keyboard and mouse… but after a bit of…

  • How do I newsgroups?

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    Newsgroups are a pretty great part of my life. They are very high performance, secure, relatively inexpensive, and reliable. The terminology and technology working in the background is different, but for those familiar with torrents, the process is virtually identical. Let’s get started. 1. Premium Usenet Provider First, you’ll need a premium usenet provider. If…

  • Recommended App: MarsEdit

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    I’m writing this post using a program called MarsEdit.  MarsEdit is a weblog publishing utility.  This is handy for me because the WordPress interface is pretty beefy and my old PowerBookG4 struggles a little bit with big websites like that.  MarsEdit doesn’t have a huge processor/RAM footprint.  Give it a shot. Also, PureMac is an…

  • Two documentaries for really nerdy people

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    I’ve watched a couple of documentaries recently by a guy named Jason Scott.  The first one, Get Lamp: The Text Adventure Documentary, I had seen before.  Its about text-based adventures, which is a form of interactive fiction.  The genre was largely killed off with the proliferation of graphical video games, but, as you can tell from…

  • Here we go again

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    I reformatted the iMac so I’m starting over.  Not a big deal because I didn’t have much content anyway. I was debating over whether I should use iWeb or WordPress as the homepage creator thingy.  iWeb has a really sexy interface and can do lots of stuff. My main beef with iWeb is that whatever…