Detroit is for Makers

Whole Foods is opening a new, 21,000 square foot, store in midtown Detroit today. This is a big deal for the city as Detroit sorely lacks grocery stores in the downtown/midtown area. Detroit is featured in the Dark Rye, Whole Foods online magazine, June issue and contains a great article and video on Detroit area makers... Remake Detroit.

Archive the documentary

This is a excellent short documentary about the Internet Archive.

Archive is a documentary focused on the future of long-term digital storage, the history of the Internet and attempts to preserve its contents on a massive scale. 

Part one features Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive and his colleagues Robert Miller, director of books, and Alexis Rossi, director of web collections. On a mission to create universal access to all knowledge, the Internet Archive’s staff have built the world's largest online library, offering 10 petabytes of archived websites, books, movies, music, and television broadcasts.

The video includes a tour of the Internet Archive’s headquarters in San Francisco, the book scanning center, and the book storage facilities in Richmond, California. 

Directed by Jonathan Minard

Cinematography by John Behrens, Alexander Porter, and Fearghal O'dea

Produced at the Internet Archive on October 22-26, during the Books in Browsers Conference and 10 Petabyte Celebration - Internet Archive

How to Change a Users Primary Email Address in Office 365

Microsoft's Office 365 is still pretty new and some things that seem like they should be easy and obvious are not. While Office 365 administrative interface for Exchange may seem limited, virtually everything that can be done in Exchange can be done in Office 365, it's just that some functions may require Windows PowerShell.

How to Disable Aero Shake in Windows 8

Aero Shake, a feature that debuted in Windows 7, allows the user to minimize the all the other open windows on the desktop by grabbing and shaking one of the windows. I've always found Aero Shake to be a little annoying, but I wasn't surprised to see that Microsoft carried this feature over to Windows 8. Let’s take a look at how to turn it off.

How to Connect to Office 365 with Windows PowerShell

Windows PowerShell is a powerful tool for managing users in Office 365. We've looked at setting up PowerShell to work with Office 365. Let's look at how to connect PowerShell to Office 365.

How to Install and Configure PowerShell for Office 365 in Windows 8

The Office 365 online administrative interface is somewhat limited in its abilities. The PowerShell command line interface is needed to accomplish some of the less frequently used tasks and some tasks that seem like that should be included in the online GUI. Windows 8 includes PowerShell, but some setup is required for it to work with Office 365.

Guglielmo Marconi [Heroes of Science and Technology]

Many of man’s technological marvels are not really invented, they’re discovered. Certain technologies are inevitable for humans to develop. If the heroes of science and technology didn't get it done when they did, it would have been just a matter of time before some other brilliant person came along and found the telephone, the light bulb, or the automobile for example. Things would probably not have turned out exactly the same if someone else discovered them first, but for the most part they would be indistinguishable from what we have today.

Both discovery and exploration are nothing but races to see who gets to the finish line first. Very little is truly “before its time.” It takes the right person, armed with enough of the appropriate technology, at the right time in history to make a find. Guglielmo Marconi didn't discover electromagnetic waves. He didn't even discover radio. He was the first to make it practical. Marconi lived an extraordinary life steeped in the history of his day.