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The National Archives, after seeing its material on Wikipedia receive billions of views, has decided to step up efforts to upload their entire collection there. Details are available in its … Continue reading National Archives on Wikipedia
Beacons are electronic devices that mark fixed locations. If you run a brick and mortar store, you may want to install them on your premises. Why? Beacons can signal precise … Continue reading The Brick and Mortar Answer to Mobile
The Volkswagen XL1 is a luxury car that gets over 200 MPG. 250 of the vehicles are being manufactured and sold in Europe, as a market test of the appeal … Continue reading Volkswagen XL1
In a spreadsheet, say you want to add a new column of unsorted data to an existing table of custom-sorted data. You’ve already sorted the original table by hand, but … Continue reading Spreadsheet Tip: Advanced Sorting with VLOOKUP
Version control brings sanity to projects with multiple contributors, or which evolve over time. Originally adopted for code, if your company develops any kind of software – even a simple … Continue reading Version Control for Sanity
A recent report by Morgan Stanley points to a near future when many homes and businesses will go off-grid, caused by the intersection of clean energy tax credits and the … Continue reading Greenest Businesses Will Go Off-Grid
OpenSSL, an extremely widespread cyptographic library used for Internet security, has just announced a major security breach and the patch to fix it. How bad is it? Pretty bad. The … Continue reading Major Bug and Patch for OpenSSL
Source: Flickr/yubikey Are you curious about the two-factor authentication security technology recently adopted by popular online services like Twitter and Tumblr? It’s called “two-factor” because it uses a password plus … Continue reading Two-Factor Authentication
Two major developments have occurred since we last discussed net neutrality. First, the FCC is moving to instate rules similar to the ones that were struck down in January, but … Continue reading Net Neutrality, Comcast-Netflix Edition
Today on the Janus Networks blog we’ll showcase Mr. Nye’s new tech toy: Google Glass! Here’s a picture of the Golden Gate Bridge in our hometown, taken with Glass: And … Continue reading First Day with Glass
Recently, the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit struck down the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC’s) “net neutrality” rules. While this might sound like an obscure junction … Continue reading Net Neutrality
Sometimes you need to clear your computer’s DNS cache. A DNS cache is something your computer uses to quickly match up a request for a domain name, like janusnetworks.com, with … Continue reading How to Clear Your DNS Cache
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