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The official Hiperwall version of this post is here. With the challenges of the global pandemic, the team mostly working from home, travel restrictions, and component shortages delaying installations, the Hiperwall development team had a banner year producing three important product releases! Our team’s ability to remain productive while working remotely is a testament . . . → Read More: Hiperwall Development Team Year in Review 2021 I wrote a white paper about why resolution matters in control rooms and other environments where information density and content are important. I wrote it in response to the increasing popularity of Direct View LED (dvLED) in digital signage. Because dvLED is bright and beautiful and almost seamless, there is temptation to use it . . . → Read More: Resolution Matters White Paper Our smart devices have lots of problems, including security and privacy, but I ran into an annoying one today, and a similar one has been in the news: functionality can be removed from these devices by the manufacturer and there’s nothing we can do about it. The case that’s been in the news is Apple . . . → Read More: Functionality Problems with Smart/IOT Devices I wrote an article for Sound and Communications Magazine on Video Wall Fault Tolerance. http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/544901a3#/544901a3/53 In March, I wrote a post on Fault Tolerance for the Hiperwall blog. I’ll link to it here since my name didn’t get attached to it there.
At Hiperwall, our tagline is “See the big picture” and we do that well. In applications from scientific visualization to control rooms and operations centers, being able to see lots of information in great detail allows our users to understand more clearly and make important decisions quickly. We’ve shown billion pixel images on Hiperwall systems, . . . → Read More: See the (Really) Big Picture Almost every software product has a click-through End User License Agreement (EULA) that we typically just click OK on so we can actually use the software. Perhaps we shouldn’t be so quick to click, because we’re often giving up our privacy or agreeing to other restrictions, but the software companies have us over a barrel, . . . → Read More: Problems with Click-Through Software License Agreements and Privacy For those of us that have used Windows 7 for a long time, the Windows 10 login mechanism is annoying, and that’s doubly so when your machine is locked. So I’ve made a handy guide that describes the login process for a locked Windows 10 system. Type your password and press Enter. This obviously doesn’t . . . → Read More: How to log in to your locked Windows 10 computer My initial reaction to Apple fighting the court order to unlock the terrorist’s iPhone was “Good for Apple. Doing anything that could reduce my privacy is bad!” And lots of the breathless news reports continued to make me think that way with all the talk of backdoors and such. But then I started reading articles . . . → Read More: My thoughts on the Apple/FBI terrorist iPhone unlocking conundrum I got my new Microsoft Surface Book last night and have decidedly mixed impressions of it. The hardware seems top notch, while the operating system and software are much worse than expected. If only Microsoft were a company that primarily made operating systems and software, I’m sure this sort of thing wouldn’t happen. Oh, wait… . . . → Read More: Microsoft Surface Book First Impressions |
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