Steve chats with Paul McEnroe, the leader of the IBM team that invented the bar code, and the author of the new memoir, “The Barcode: How a Team Created One of the World’s Most Ubiquitous Technologies” [Read more…]
Editor’s Note: This podcast is the basis for Steve’s 9/26/2018 Compuschmooze column, which appeared in the Jewish Community Voice of Southern New Jersey. As the population ages, assisted living communities and nursing homes around the country are having a more difficult [Read more…]
The Jewish Community Voice of Southern New Jersey is celebrating its 75th Anniversary June 9, 2016 and the celebration includes a tribute video about the history of the newspaper produced by The Lubetkin Media Companies. [Read more…]
My March 18, 2015 “Compuschmooze” column discusses RarmaRadio, a software tool for recording and time-shifting streaming Internet radio stations, but the software comes with a catch. Read the column at the Jewish Community Voice website.
Editor’s Note: The version of this column that appeared in the March 5 issue of the Jewish Community Voice of Southern New Jersey omitted the hyperlinks to the example websites and synagogues mentioned. This version [Read more…]
In my December 2013 “Compuschmooze” column in the Jewish Community Voice of Southern New Jersey, I report on Julian Brodsky’s keynote remarks at last month’s Founder Factory conference in Philadelphia. Brodsky is the retired vice [Read more…]
In the October 2013 Compuschmooze column in the Jewish Community Voice of Southern New Jersey, I talk about the Grape-Vine app developed with support from some large Jewish organizations in the hope that they can [Read more…]
In my August 2013 “Compuschmooze” column in the Jewish Community Voice of Southern New Jersey, I describe Evernote and its value as a cloud-based note-taking, reference-recording, database accessible from multiple platforms.
In my June 2013 Compuschmooze column in the Jewish Community Voice of Southern New Jersey, I look at Adobe Corporation’s shift from software sales by the box or download to a subscription pricing model for [Read more…]
In my September 2012 “Compuschmooze” column, I respond to a reader who is having trouble opening “.docx” Word documents in his older version of Microsoft’s popular word processing program.
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