Articles by Nick Kolakowski
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Vint Cerf: Dark Ages of Digital Media Await
Vint Cerf is widely considered one of the “founders of the Internet,” so when he makes a pronouncement about the online world, people tend to listen. And right now, he’s claiming we’re at risk of… -
Jony Ive: 'Star Wars' Lightsaber Designer
Jony Ive is famous for designing the iMac, MacBook, iPad, and iPhone, but his accomplishments don’t end there: According to a new profile in The New Yorker, Ive may have also influenced the desig… -
Auto-Deleting Emails: The Next Hot Feature?
The ability to archive and search through email is a valuable business tool: Who hasn’t cycled back through a year’s worth of messages to find an important piece of data? But email, despite all i… -
Apple iOS Devs Rejoice: App Size Limit Doubles
Apple iOS developers of the world, rejoice: the size limit for your apps has doubled, from 2GB to 4GB. According to Apple’s Developer website, “this change does not affect the cellular network de… -
Facebook Offering a Way to Manage Accounts After Death
Facebook now allows its users to choose “legacy contacts” to manage their accounts after they die. Legacy contacts will have the ability to post messages atop the deceased user’s timeline, respon… -
JavaScript Tops GitHub's Most Popular Languages
What are the top programming languages on GitHub? According to GitHut, a website that attempts to estimate and visualize the repository’s most popular languages, JavaScript topped the list in the… -
Creating a Drone 'No Fly' Zone Over Your House
Have you ever wondered whether a drone will crash-land into your house? Does the idea of unmanned aerial vehicles buzzing over your yard make you nervous? NoFlyZone wants to calm those fears by c… -
Apple's Next Big iOS Feature: Stability
What’s the must-have feature in Apple’s next big iOS update? Stability. According to the Apple-centric blog 9to5Mac, Apple has listened to user complaints about its mobile platform’s recent perfo… -
Forget Standing Desks: Here's the Office Swing
Some startups blow their capital on thousand-dollar designer chairs; others line their offices with standup desks, which supposedly confer health benefits. But what if today’s office designers to… -
Google Android, iOS, and... Ubuntu?
In January 2013, Canonical (a company that works with the open source community on Ubuntu, a free operating system) announced that it would build a version of Ubuntu for smartphones. A few months…