Working Up

by Dwayne Phillips Some 25 years ago, I learned something that has stayed with me. The reason it has stayed with me is that it still holds true: Don’t depend on live demos. The title of this post is a statement made often by one of my advisors in graduate school way back at LSU […]

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by Dwayne Phillips Recent advances in computer networks and facial recognition software bring about some interesting possibilities for knowing that a person was in a place at a time doing an activity. Governments might want to know this information. Private companies, however, would more likely implement this for profit. This post brings about some interesting […]

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by Dwayne Phillips I reveal my concept for the spell-checking pencil. The technology is only five years away. I’ve had this idea for years. Now is the time to reveal it to the world. Maybe someone will build it and send me a dollar or something for the idea. The idea is for a spell-checking […]

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by Dwayne Phillips Once and for all we answer the question: what is artificial intelligence? It was the summer of 1986, and I was sitting in an office of a government manager several layers of the bureaucracy above me. There were other people in the room and they were discussing what was a red-hot technology […]

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by Dwayne Phillips Technology can be great. It is, however, made by people who are known to make mistakes. Don’t believe everything the sales people tell you about technology. I make my living from technology. I have done so for 30 years and going. So now I am going to write something that may seem […]

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by Dwayne Phillips I add the ZaggMate carrying case with a BlueTooth keyboard. It is great. I like the iPad, but… Of course there is a “but.” I write as much as I read and that makes me different from most people and that is the “but” about the iPad – I can’t write well […]

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by Dwayne Phillips How specific should a system specification be? How many resources should the spec consume? I propose a measure to help answer these questions – the Return on Specification Investment. A few years ago, I was reviewing a specification for a system that someone in the office had written. I came to one […]

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by Dwayne Phillips DropBox is a service that allows storing files on the Internet. I learn that I can display and print these files from my iPad. A friend recently introduced me to DropBox. This is a web site where I can put some of my files and access them from just about any computer […]

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by Dwayne Phillips Time marches on; Apple moves forward, and printing from the iPad becomes a bit easier. I use AirPrint from my iPad. I’m a bit slow when it comes to keeping my iPad up to date. I finally moved my iPad to iOS 4.2. I guess I was supposed to do this weeks […]

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by Dwayne Phillips HP’s new Photosmart printers have a feature HP calls ePrint. I can send an email to the printer, and the printer prints it. iPad and iPhone apps allow for taking notes and emailing them. In this case, emailing them to the printer. I can now print from my iPad. Well, I can […]

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