Intercom, the Society of Technical Communications magazine,included an article called “Trying Virtual Reality on the Cheap With Google Cardboard” by Neil Perlin. If you have an Android phone, order a Google Virtual Reality cardboard viewer from Amazon for under $30. The viewer comes as a flat piece cardboard with built-in lenses and instructions to fold […]
NSA and IFTTT
The documentary CitzenFour chronicles Edward Snowden’s actions and conversations during the campaign to expose how our government spies on everyone. Do you search on Google? A record exists for your every search through time. Do you shop online? NSA records purchases–weapons; legal drugs (e.g. insulin, Viagra); movies/books/gadgets and underwear from Amazon. Do you have a cell phone on […]
IFTTT
The acronym IFTTT expands to If This Then That, an Internet service that enables you to automate small tasks which occur out in cyberspace. IFTTT “recipes” connect Triggers (events) to Actions (result). Connectable devices are your computer, tablet, IOS or Android phone. For example, you can construct a recipe that sends your mobile device a text […]