Tech Better

If you have ever had an occasion where you needed to be creative, you have probably tried some form of brainstorming. However, if you're like me, it doesn't take long to run out of ideas. One tool you can use to keep the creativity flowing is Google's Wonder Wheel. If you are unfamiliar with Google's Wonder Wheel, read on.

Have you ever wanted to send someone a link to a long YouTube video when the segment you actually wanted them to watch was several minutes into the video? Well here is a trick to make the YouTube link jump straight to the interesting part of the video. Just add "#t=*m*s" to the end of the URL where the asterisks represent minutes and seconds respectively. When anyone clicks the URL the YouTube video will jump to that exact time in the video. Below is an example link. I have chosen a fun video and I jump to the end for demonstration purposes.

Interesting fact: every single day 15 petabytes (15 zeros) of new information is created. This is 8 times more information than exists in every U.S. library combined. That much information is created every day!

I think my email inbox is responsible for about ¼ of that total.

Below is a video of a Mobile Augmented Reality browser. Basically, while you are walking the street, you can pull out your mobile phone and point it at anything. Then, using images recognition, a built-in compass and GPS the browser looks up information about whatever it is pointed at. The video shows pointing the browser at different buildings to see how much they cost.

Inc. magazine recently published an article stating that 34% of discarded hard disks contain either someone’s personal data or commercial data that a company would not want released. The study was conducted by purchasing random used hard disks and computers from EBay.

Many people believe that simply deleting files from a hard disk is sufficient. Unfortunately, this is not the case. When you delete a file from your hard disk the data is actually still present on the disk. The operating system just does not “see it” anymore.