‘Why are viola jokes so simple? So that violinists can understand them.’

Video: The daily torment suffered by violists November 10, 2015 ‘Was violin too hard?’ ‘Hey, what’s it like never playing in tune?’ Submediant has produced a spoof video of the daily abuse suffered by violists in an effort to #endviolajokes. A female violist walks the streets of New York and is…

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Late last year I made the switch to Adobe’s Lightroom 4 from Aperture and Picasa for a variety of reasons, but a big one was photo/file management. As my photo collection got larger I found that I’d need more than my laptop’s hard drive to store them all. Despite all the things I liked about…

Thursday 6 February 2014 Chris Woods / chrismwoods.com Twenty-five years on from the web's inception, its creator has urged the public to re-engage with its original design: a decentralised internet that at its very core, remains open to all. ADVERTISEMENT Speaking with Wired editor David Rowan at…

Finding the right tool to track your to-dos is highly personal, and one person's best is another's junk—but there are some that are better than others. The best offer great syncing and scheduling options, great apps, notifications and reminders, or just the right mix of features and flexibility that…

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Brilliant. Passionate. Overbearing. Impatient. Steve Jobs's management style has been described in many ways, both positive and negative. Love him or hate him, there's no denying what he accomplished: Within a short time, he built the most successful company on the planet. Before that, though, Jobs…

Vint Cerf, co-creator of the internet and polymath icon is continuing to be a catalyst for global innovation and change as he clearly demonstrates in my engaging chat with the legend. His influence on government, industry, education, society and its ripple effect with executives, technology…

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by The idea that computer users should use long, complex passwords is one of computer security’s sacred cows and something we write about a great deal at Naked Security. They need to be long and complex because it’s their length, complexity and uniqueness that determines how difficult they are to…

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Windows doesn't have the best reputation for security, but Microsoft has been outlining a series of improvements in the new operating system that it believes will stymie hackers and leave corporate data more secure. "We're no longer facing an evolution in security threats but a revolution," Chris…

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Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather. We have no elected government, nor are we…

Richard Stallman on cloud computing: "It's stupidity. It's worse than stupidity: it's a marketing hype campaign." Photograph: www.stallman.org The concept of using web-based programs like Google's Gmail is "worse than stupidity", according to a leading advocate of free software. Cloud computing –…

Slik fikk vi rengjort den svartsvidde ovnsristen dinside Da Telenor la fram resultatene fra regnskapsårets andre kvartal i sommer, strålte overskuddet i kamp med sola. Dette gjaldt da driften totalt, fra Thailand i øst til Norge i vest. Men det er spesielt ett land Telenor tjener mye penger per…

Our cloud-based IT world is founded on hypervisors. It doesn’t have to be that way – and, some say, it shouldn’t be. Containers can deliver more services using the same hardware you’re now using for virtual machines, said one speaker at the Linux Collaboration Summit, and that spells more profits…

Language is only the most obvious part of the global communication gap. Different cultures also have distinct approaches to communication during meetings and negotiations, as described by British linguist Richard D. Lewis , whose best-selling book, “ When Cultures Collide ,” charts these as well as…

Mac: One of the biggest distractions with email is your inbox. Let.ter is a Mac app that gets rid of the inbox so you have a space to just write and send emails so you can get along with your day. Let.ter looks similar to a basic text editor where you're just given a place to write your text. The…