by Brad Proctor | Jul 3, 2014 | Columns
Aaron Swartz is a name not many people know but one that will ring out for ages to come, considering the impact such a young man had on the Internet as we know it. Last week, a documentary titled “The Internet’s Own Boy” was released, telling the story of Aaron’s life...
by Brad Proctor | Jun 15, 2014 | Columns
The process of managing memory on your device have drastically changed over the years. You may remember having to run a memory manager that would warn you if too many programs were running and allow you to close the program eating away at all your available memory....
by Brad Proctor | Jun 5, 2014 | Columns
This past week at Apple’s World Wide Developers Conference held at the Moscone Center in San Francisco Apple announced several things that drastically changed the way developers can develop apps for iOS and Mac OS X. While these changes seem very minor or obscure to...
by Brad Proctor | May 9, 2014 | Columns
Take a moment, step back and think about the tools you had available to you while in grade school. Depending on your generation this will vary from slide rules to iPads. Now think about how these tools impacted your learning experience. In most cases these tools were...
by Brad Proctor | Mar 27, 2014 | Columns
“You’ve got mail” used to be one of the most exciting things to hear when you logged in to AOL to check your email. Nowadays the email notification goes off so often we start asking others around us, “Is that you or me?”. A slight buzz in our pockets and we take out...
by Brad Proctor | Oct 17, 2013 | Columns
It was the turn of the century and the tech industry was abuzz about the inevitable milestone of a 1 gigahertz microprocessor. The underdog, AMD, beat the microprocessor giant, Intel, to this historic landmark with their Athlon processor operating for the first time...