Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category

Firmware update for Drobo FS repairs Time Machine support

The release of  Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion) made it difficult, if not impossible, to use a Drobo FS as a backup destination for Time Machine. The forums were full of frustrated users that had bought the Drobo FS in the believe that the marketing was actually true. Drobo released a firmware update (2.1) but [...]

Contacting Google

I noticed that it is impossible to contact Google. Occasionally something goes wrong with the many services we use and there is no phone number or email address from which you can expect a response. The best help are other users. This is pretty sad.

Human Robot Business Model

How will the business model of humans change once robots do their job? The Technium proposes proposes  The 7 Stages of Robot Replacement  

How to create multiple folders with AppleScript

For a project I needed create 5000 folders. Needless to say that I certainly did not want to do this manually. After searching on Google I combined two AppleScripts. This new script creates multiple folders in the front window. try tell application “Finder” to set the this_folder ¬ to (folder of the front window) as [...]

The Importance of Open Access Publishing

I was interviewed about Open Access Publishing for the Open Access week. Here is the video: