This Mechanical Keyboard Switch Sampler Is My New Favorite Desk Toy

Lifehacker called mechanical keyboards one of the Top 10 Superior Tech Products You’ll Never Go Back From, and we agree. There are a whole lot of mechanical keyboards to choose from, and while Lifehacker put together a great guide to choosing the right one for you, there’s no substitute for actually trying the keys.

7 Exercises That Undo the Damage of Sitting

If you’re like most men living and working in a techno-service economy, you probably spend a good deal of your day sitting down. You go from the kitchen table to your desk at work to your chair in front of the TV. But as The Art of Manliness has discussed before, spending most of your … Leggi tutto

Five Best VPN Tools

VPN software lets you join private networks as though you’re sitting at a local computer on that network, giving you access to shared folders and tons more handy stuff. Here’s a look at five of the most popular VPN tools

file hosting services

File hosting Services are a particular kind of online file storage; however, various products that are designed for online file storage may not have features or characteristics that others designed for sharing files have. 360 Yunpan Amazon Cloud Drive Amazon S3 Apple iCloud ASUS WebStorage Baidu Cloud Box ByteShot CloudMe Copy Dropbox FilePi Fileserve FileSplat.com … Leggi tutto

Evolution of a SysAdmin

There is an ever-growing demand for Linux professionals, and becoming a sysadmin can be a challenging, interesting and rewarding career path.  

Colibrì

COLIBRI’ CHE BELLO – È L’UCCELLO PIÙ PICCOLO AL MONDO MA CON IL SUO ARCOBALENO DI COLORI, È UNA SPECIE DI RARA BELLEZZA PARI A NESSUN ALTRO

Android Studio

Canonical is looking to befriend the Android developers by becoming the development platform of choice. “A number of developers are choosing Ubuntu as their primary development system of choice, even if they develop for platforms other than Ubuntu itself, like doing some Android development, web development and so on. We decided a few months ago … Leggi tutto

Move to 64-bit Android phones accelerating, says ARM

ARM tells CNET that the shift to 64-bit devices is taking place faster than expected. Part of the reason is that even 32-bit code runs faster on ARM’s newest 64-bit chips Nexus 5: Could a future version of the Nexus run on a 64-bit Qualcomm processor?  

AMD Dual-Core Processor E-350

Le schede con AMD E-350 competono con quelle che integrano Atom di Intel, sia in ambito x86 che AMD64. I test con varie versioni di Linux e la Sapphire con AMD E-350 mostrano la più facile installazione di distribuzioni Linux, sia recenti che datate, e prestazioni brillanti. ASRock E350M1 Processor AMD Dual-Core Processor E-350 Model … Leggi tutto

OpenPhoenux

“The goal of the OpenPhoenux project is to provide a complete community driven and independently developed hardware, software and services platform for portable operation, that is as free and open as we can achieve it within our environment. This includes kernel, drivers and application software a well as documented hardware, and open discussion. It continues … Leggi tutto

Tegra/SoCs

This page aims to be the primary reference/index for information on NVIDIA’s Tegra SoCs, the Linux-based software stacks that run on Tegra, and related tools and techniques. Tegra114 Marketing name: Tegra 4. http://www.nvidia.com/object/tegra-4-processor.html Quad-core ARM Cortex-A15 CPU, with 5th battery-saver core Up to 4GB of RAM (1 or 2 is much more typical on mainline … Leggi tutto

IBM Set to Debut New Power 8 Servers in October

After 31 years at IBM, Doug Balog is facing a big challenge. Balog is the General Manager of Power Systems within IBM’s System and Technology Group and is aiming to transform the business with new silicon and open efforts to grab share from the x86 market.

Xiaomi Mi4 review: China’s iPhone killer is unoriginal but amazing

Xiaomi (pronounced SHAO-mee) is a complete mystery in the West. We often hear stories about the “Apple of China” and how existing OEMs should be worried, but it’s rare to get a look at any actual devices from the company. It has a quad core 2.5GHz Snapdragon 801, 3GB of RAM, 16 or 64GB (!) of internal storage, a 3080mAh battery, … Leggi tutto

Minimal Linux Live

Minimal Linux Live is a set of Linux shell scripts which automatically build minimal Live Linux OS based on Linux kernel and BusyBox. All necessary source codes are automatically downloaded and all build operations are fully encapsulated in the scripts.

Death by 1,000 cuts: Mainstream storage array suppliers are bleeding

Cloud, all-flash kit, object storage slicing away at titans of storage Object storage – things like erasure codes and dispersal algorithms solved the issue of lengthy RAID rebuilds and dual and triple disk failures in standard arrays, as well as bypassing the limitations of file systems when looking after billions of files. All-flash arrays – … Leggi tutto

Emulatori x86 per ARM

La nuova frontiera ARM apre vecchie problematiche: come poter far funzionare il vecchio ed abbondante codice x86. La risposta è la solita: utilizzando un emulatore.      

thingspeak

The open data platform for the Internet of Things. ThingSpeak Features Open API Real-time data collection Geolocation data Data processing Data visualizations Device status messages Plugins Integrate Arduino Raspberry Pi ioBridge / RealTime.io Electric Imp Mobile / Web Applications Social Networks Data Analytics with MATLAB Connect With Us GitHub Twitter / Google+ Blog Forum Documentation … Leggi tutto

openremote

OpenRemote is the professional open source middle-ware for an Internet of Things. You can Integrate any device or protocol, and Design any user interface and intelligent system. User interfaces are available for iOS, Android and for web browsers. Cloud-based design tools allow easy upgrades, and make your product Future proof.

nimbits.com

Nimbits is a collection of open source software you can use to record and process time and geo stamped sensor data on the cloud.

Mango

Mango, open source M2M Mango, the world’s most popular open source Machine-to-Machine (M2M) software (also known as Industrial Control, SCADA, HMI, or domotics). Mango is browser-based, Ajax-enabled M2M software that enables users to access and control electronic sensors, devices, and machines over multiple protocols simultaneously. Easy to download and install on many platforms, Mango provides … Leggi tutto

Tools for the OPEN SOURCE Internet of Things

IOT toolkit The Internet of Things today consists of many different sensor networks and protocols, connected to dedicated cloud services, providing access through smartphone and browser apps. It is rare for these separate “silos” to cooperate or interact with each other. The IoT Toolkit is an Open Source project to develop a set of tools … Leggi tutto

devicehub.net

Devicehub.net will help you gather data from the environment and automate tasks as easy as pie. 2. You could … log your heartrate daily to prevent illness or make sure yor grandparents are doing ok see where your kids are log their position so they are safe and you can focus on your work automate … Leggi tutto

DeviceHive

Device Connectivity Made Easy Focus on your product and innovation and leave communication and management DeviceHive makes any connected device part of the Internet of Things. It provides the communication layer, control software and multi-platform libraries to bootstrap development of smart energy, home automation, remote sensing, telemetry, remote control and monitoring software, and much more. … Leggi tutto

Printer

An open source kit for exploring the possibilities of internet-of-things printing.

freeboard.io

Build real-time, interactive dashboards and visualizations in minutes using the intuitive drag & drop interface.

Spark a distributed, cloud-based IoT operating system.

An IoT operating system that runs in the Cloud. You want your connected product to be smart, right? Give it an operating system designed for the Internet of Things. Spark OS is a distributed operating system, where servers in the Cloud do the heavy lifting. That way your product can handle complex, intelligent behaviors when … Leggi tutto

riot

The friendly Operating System for the Internet of Things. Learn more.  

The AllJoyn Open Source Project

AllJoyn is an open source project that provides a software framework and set of Services that enable interoperability among connected products and software applications, across manufacturers, to create dynamic proximal networks.  

IoTSyS

IoTSyS is an integration middleware for the Internet of Things. Projects: IoTSyS-Gateway: OSGI based oBIX server, HTTP Server, CoAP Server, RESTful Web service endpoint, SOAP Web service endpoint IoTSyS-oBIX: Extendend and modified oBIX toolkit IoTSyS-Common: Interfaces and API to interact with the oBIX server, common oBIX object types IoTSyS-WMBus: connector for Wireless M-Bus and technology … Leggi tutto

openHAB

OpenHAB lets the smart devices you already have in your home talk to one another.  

tessel.io

Tessel is a microcontroller that runs JavaScript.  It’s Node-compatible and ships with Wifi built in. Use it to easily make physical devices that connect to the web.