ashNOLOGY

Hello World,  I hope you have been doing well. So I just came across a video from the Youtube channel DIY Tryin (I love these guys), and with in about 5 minutes, they set up a " Pirate Box ". I was blown away, because I had not heard of this before. " What is a Pirate Box?" you might ask. Its a secure way for you to share files (and even chat) with friends, who are within your proximity, without needing internet. Basically its turning a device into a wireless local LAN almost. Its pretty cool. As they mentioned this could be used for many things, from Fun to Functional. Fun: If you are throwing a party, you can have your friends connect to it, up load the pictures and videos they take, or share their favorite songs to be played. Functional: If you need to exchange files between machines securely for example. The possibilities are endless, and I personally want to do this. I would probably go with the TP- Router instead of the Raspberry PI, becaus...

Hello World,  I wanted to talk to you about something today that is near and dear to my heart. First of, do you remember something called "The Arab Spring", back in 2011? You know when countries in North Africa started a revolution against their dictators, and many of them were talked about (some still bask in that glory today), well in 2012 a revolt happened in Sudan (and is still happening today), but no one brought any attention to it. What does this have to do with technology? Everything.  You see the people who were (are) revolting, are the bright young women and men. So what they started doing is report on their own revolt. They would take their cell phones to these peaceful protests and stream them to YouTube. At one point I was in contact with someone there who sent me daily text message of images and reports from there, and I would post them on the Sudan Speaks blog. Then the contact wanted to update it directly from there, then they stopped updating. ...

Justin Hall has come up with a new kind of online gaming, for his master's thesis. He calls it PMOG (Passively Multi-player Online Games). The concept is basically to rage technological warfare against your friends 'through' the browser. Which means you can go the sites that you know they visit often and set mines and traps to take away their data point (life). Its a pretty neat concept, but I think it would be a bit distracting, especially if your at work, or researching something important. I'm not quite sure what actually happens to the page your viewing, I just know that you can see your data points going down and it tells you what happened to cause that. I don't think it shuts down your browser or anything, but still I think its a very neat concept. You can read the article here , it will explain it better than I. Have a good day. -Ash