Bryce McDonnell

I recently returned from a trip to Beirut, Lebanon where I had been doing some humanitarian and mission work. One of my responsibilities was to create a file sharing server for a humanitarian organization.
Given the budget of next to nothing and the relatively small size of the office, I decided it was best to proceed [...]

Kevin Rose, founder at Digg.com was flying from SFO to New York city this morning when he connected to Virgin America’s on board wi-fi connection and began streaming his trip from 30,000 feet.
Utilizing twitter, he sent out a tweet with a link to where people could view his stream. Interacting with the audience of over [...]

More information can be found at the links provided, but Microsoft is not starting the year off strong. Most media outlets led with a story about how the Zune, Microsoft’s digital music player, was hit with a glitch in how its internal clock accounts for leap year. Then, it’s industry leading web browser, Internet Explorer, [...]

I recently read this article at FastCompany’s website about Linux: the open source, freely available operating system. While it technically competes with Windows and Mac OS X, most users have probably never heard of it. Most data center admins probably couldn’t live without it. It has a commanding lead in the enterprise hosting space and [...]

Over the last several weeks, Google has been announcing snippets of information related to their mobile phone endevor: Android.
Google announced today it will also be releasing a Android Market, a service designed in the image of the iTunes Store with YouTube functionality. An interesting market shift is taking place which could quite possibly be looked [...]

I’ve been fighting my Leopard installation recently with getting the IMAP libraries compiled correctly. I wanted the IMAP features so that I could use my sugarCRM application better. After a lot of fighting, compiling and adjusting, I finally got a stable installation of Apache 2.2 and PHP-5.2.5 with IMAP. Here’s how I did it:
I didn’t [...]

I’ve been using Skype now for quite awhile. It’s an excellent way to keep in touch with others without using your cell phone minutes. It’s also a free way to video conference, chat and make voice calls.

Lauri’s parents live in California and Skype makes it really easy to video conference with them. We did this [...]

Microsoft has pioneered a software revolution that has forever changed the face of business. Millions of workers can now do more each day and stay in closer contact as a direct result of the innovations by Bill Gates. All this said, I am a mac user. Microsoft, despite its celebrity status as a great company [...]

To connect your AOL high speed internet service to a router is fairly simple if you have good information. AOL tech support gave me some bad advice in the beginning which caused me about an hour of headache before I called them back. To connect takes a couple of AOL specific setup instructions which I’ll [...]

Many artists don’t get math. Conversely, a lot of mathematicians can’t do art. It’s rare to find a person who appreciates both and even more inimitable to replicate the synthesis of art and science Pandora has created. 

Pandora is not just an online music station, it’s also a music genome project combing through the irreducible aspects of millions of [...]