A Handprint Industries Website [by Erty Seidel]

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Internet Stoplights?

Yes, there is such a thing as a stop light on the internet.  Most people don’t know they exist, much less have the chance to look at the ones not in most homes today.  Actually, none of the services that the internet provides would be available without a router. Routers play a crucial role in the [ READ MORE ]

Internet Communications part 2

Time for another analogy. Let’s say you have a full-size grand piano that you want to send through the mail.  It’s too big to send in one box so you have to split it up into a bunch of little boxes or “packets.”  These packets have all different parts of the piano stored inside them.  The [ READ MORE ]

Google Sidewiki

Google recently released a new version of their toolbar with a feature called Google Sidewiki.  Sidewiki allows people to publish comments on all websites regardless of whether or not the site has a section for posting comments.  You can learn more about Sidewiki here or here or download the new toolbar for Firefox or [ READ MORE ]

Internet Communications part 1

Imagine a wall 256′ by 256′ with a grid on it like a graph.  These squares are numbered 1 through 65,535 because the top right square is missing.  The numbering starts at the bottom left, works its way right, goes up a row and all the way to the left and continues right until it [ READ MORE ]

Government Data

Recently, President Obama opened up the first Federal Chief Information Officer position available in our Federal government. Vivek Kundra is the man commanding that title. He is using it to form Data.gov. The U.S. government used to hide data; some things only available through the Freedom of Information Act, the rest buried in one [ READ MORE ]

Google vs. Facebook

Here’s one I didn’t see coming.  Facebook has a four-step plan to dominate the internet.  Their plan is outlined below… 1. Facebook currently has so many users that they have essentially created another internet of information on Facebook’s roughly 40,000 servers.  They want to keep growing. 2. Facebook envisions a future where Google’s algorithms won’t dictate what [ READ MORE ]

SSH Tunneling in Windows

For everyone out there running on Windows and wanting to bypass most internet filters, this is my favorite method[ READ MORE ]