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2016
The Growth of Sharing Services
Over the past few years, the tech sector has seen an emergence of, for lack of a better term, “sharing services,” or companies that network and rent out dist...
2015
Quantopian – Technology to Backtest and Execute Algorithmic Trading
Algorithmic trading is growing field in finance that uses computers to execute securities trades. With growing research in artificial intelligence and machin...
Computer Science at Undergraduate Level (Part I)
Computer Science is rapidly becoming a popular major among students as the job market for CS majors shows consistent growth. Additionally, the market for CS ...
Skiplagged – Understanding the Ethics behind “Hidden City” Ticketing
It has been awhile since I’ve written an article, but I’ve found the chatter surrounding “hidden city ticketing,” an approach to obtaining cheaper air ticket...
Top 5 Activator Actions That Will Make Your Life Easier
Activator is one of the most popular tweaks for Jailbroken iOS devices for a reason. It is fantastically useful in making shortcuts for various tasks through...
Rabb.it is a Revolution in Social Web Browsing and Video Streaming
Google Hangouts formerly set the standard for online video chat, but a new contestant has taken the lead with a service that not only offers flawless video c...
Introduction to Stochastics – A Look at Monte Carlo Method and Hidden Markov Model
Note: This is a paper I wrote for my AH Computer Science course, hence the formality.
2014
Simogo – Aesthetically Creative iOS Developers
While I don’t consider myself to be an avid video gamer, what I find most interesting about the media genre is the story, visual, and audio craft. Depending ...
Terminal – New Online Computing Environment
While CodeBunk and Neutron Drive have free and accessible online developing environments, they lack a certain robustness characteristic of offline computing....
Useful Python Packages – Part I
Python has one of the largest package libraries. Packages range from tools to simulate networks or graphs to frameworks like Django and Flask, Python’s devel...
Three Free Online Learning Sites
Autodidactism is the practice of teaching oneself. Benjamin Franklin is the classic example of a self-taught scholar. In today’s age of ubiquitous knowledge,...
Online Coding Environments
An online coding environment is exactly how it sounds: incorporating coding directly into your web browser. Part of the advantage of online coding is that yo...
App Extensions for iOS 8 – Everything You Need to Know
Apple has always been introducing innovative versions for its operating system iOS. The latest to join this list is iOS 8. Although this iOS version is equip...
bop.fm – Awesome Music Sharing Service
It can be quite overwhelming to pick an online music service, like Spotify, Rdio, or SoundCloud. After you have settled in with a service, you may want to sh...
Use AlienTube to Replace Awful YouTube Comments with Reddit Threads
YouTube is notorious for its simply dreadful comment sections filled with immature statements and pointless flamewars. Most people just turn a blind eye to t...
Perl Tutorial – Building a Local Network
Perl is slowly growing out of fashion, despite it’s ubiquitous influence on developing modern languages. Much of Perl’s syntax and structure has been cleaned...
You Were Always Right: Video Games Are Good For You
“It’s a waste of time!” “Do something actually good for you!” “Get off the couch and do something productive for once!”
Google Shows Off First Project Ara Prototype, Makes PhoneBloks a Reality
At the recent Google I/O 2014 conference, Google announced several new android and chrome projects and goals, with an emphasis on affordability and wearables...
QuickDialog – A Good Place for Beginning iOS Developers to Start
Apple does a clean job of portraying iOS development as a fun, streamlined, and straightforward process. While this may be the case for experienced programme...
CoffeeScript – An Introduction
JavaScript developers (or any developer that uses JavaScript) know that the language can be, at times, awkward and clunky to use. While web developers try to...
What Swift Means for the Future of iOS and Mac Development
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Vertu Constellation – A High-end Luxury Smartphone
The tan edition of the phone
Python Basics 101 – Part IV: Defining Functions
Functions in Python can be easily defined and called upon throughout a directory of files as well as a single file itself. This tutorial will briefly demonst...
Python Basics 101 – Part III: How to Create a Python Script in iPython Notebook
Hopefully installation of iPython Notebook was successful. After installing and running the notebook, let’s create a project. After running iPython Notebook ...
Coin – One Coin for All of Your Cards
Coin is a product with the much sought after goal of reducing wallet size. With rewards cards, gift cards, credit cards, and debit cards, it is easy to lose ...
Python Basics 101 – Part II: Installing iPython Notebook
As you get into Python, you may be looking for new Python IDE’s or looking for a text editor that satisfies your initial concerns; simplicity, effectiveness,...
Python Basics 101 – Part I: Installing Pip
In this set of tutorials, I will demonstrate how to get oriented with the Python programming language. Over the past few months, I have grown acquainted with...
Aether Cone – A Speaker that Intelligently Picks Music For You
Online music has become a leading market. With services like Spotify, Pandora, Bop.fm, Soundcloud and Rdio, online music sharing, streaming, and collaboratin...
Top finance apps for your iPhone that help you keep tabs on your budget and expense
You may find keeping track of both your budget and your expenses a very intimidating task that may wear you out. This may lead you to find trivial excuses...
2013
Rework – 37Signal’s Book of Sagely Advice for Fledgling Entrepreneurs
This book, Rework, caught my eye a year ago, but I had never gotten around to reading it. Emblazoned on the front cover is a quote, “Ignore this book at your...
Asana – Great Free Group Collaboration Software
One of the difficulties of collaborating on projects, whether it be software development, web development, or nothing programming related, is the challenge o...
Making Stop-Motion Animations is Easy with iStopMotion for iPad
Almost everyone has watched a stop-motion movie at some point in their lives, whether it be one of Wallace and Gromit’s escapades or Gumby and Pokey...
How to Safely Sell, Return, or Trash your Computer by Removing all Data
There are a plethora of instances that necessitate complete removal of sensitive information that was previously written to your media storage device. You ma...
Google Gigabit Could Get Gloomy
As Google pushes forward with its plans for gigabit fiber Internet access, I wonder if they are considering the repercussions from competitors. As they offer...
2012
How to Free Up Space on the Mac Start-Up Disk
After a long period of time a Mac computer may prompt you with an aggravating error message:
New Android App Filters Out Negative Messages When You’re Stressed
We’ve all had one of those days where we really can’t be bothered dealing with mardy, spiteful, or generally negative messages. These days require full co...
Top 15 Jailbreak Apps and Tweaks
Jailbreaking your iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad enables you to install thousands of apps and tweaks from Cydia. If you’re reading this, you’re probably conside...
An Introduction to the Wonderful World of Infrared Photography
Taking pictures at night used to be impossible without having some sort of light source. These days, technology has changed all that. With the use of infrare...
Now You Can Develop iPhone Apps Free of Cost
It is a great time for anyone to get their hands on the free development of iPhone apps. If you are thinking about it, remember that you would be getting an ...
How Night Vision Works
Watch any action movie and there is sure to be a scene where some soldier or cop is stuck facing the enemy in the dark and lo and behold he just happens to h...
The Five Best Alarm Clock Apps for Android
Smartphones are great for many things, and one great use of your smartphone is as an alarm clock. Smartphones make great alarm clocks because they are always...
Yahoo! Gets Into the Browser Business With Yahoo! Axis
In recent years, Yahoo has been struggling to keep up with other companies, like Google, that are immensely popular and widely used. It has made a couple of ...
Ultrabooks: A Hit Or A Miss?
Today, ultrabook is the hottest new term in the laptop market. The term was initially created by Intel and inspired by the sleek MacBoo...
MIT “Hack” Wars
The term “hack” is an over glorified term for pranking used by the two most prolific technology schools in the country. Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
10 Apps for the Travel Entrepreneur
Entrepreneurs who travel around the country or to different countries as part of their business have specific travel needs. Fortunately for those with an ...
Top 5 Real-Time Document Collaboration Services
It can be a major hassle to work with a group of people to complete a document or program, especially without the help of modern collaboration technology. Yo...
Where Technology is Headed in 2012
After another action-packed Consumer Electronics Show in glittering Las Vegas this year, it seems that there’s plenty of high-tech kit to keep an eye on duri...
Power Struggles: Increasing Your Android’s Battery Life
If you’re anything like me, you probably have something to say about the battery life on your Android device. My Nexus battery drains power at an unbelievabl...
How to Play Classic Games on Your Mac Terminal
There are many games hidden away in your Mac Terminal (assuming you update your Mac system at least once a year). In this How-to, you’ll be able to access th...
5 Essential iPhone Business Apps
When the Apple iPhone was introduced by the late Steve Jobs to the tech-hungry masses back in 2007, the thought of the gizmo becoming an essential business p...
Best iPhone Fitness Apps
You can now ditch your diet-tracking notebook and gym membership for few exercise and nutrition iPhone apps that will take your workouts to a new level. For ...
2011
Top 3 Free Screen Capture Tools
Whether you’re trying to provide some tech support for a friend, showing off that new computer game you bought, or trying to include some screenshots in a bl...
Three Text Editor Alternatives To TextMate
TextMate is one of the greatest text editors for the Mac. Unfortunately, many would be developers are deterred by its price tag (around $55) or simply cannot...
5 Simple Yet Fun Mac Games: Macintosh Has Always Been A Gaming Platform
One huge knock on the Mac in the past is the lack of gaming in comparison to the PC. Even though it paled in comparison, there was always a nice collection o...
Why Piracy Isn’t Theft, And Why You Should Question Copyright
For many dozens of years, pirates roamed the open seas and pillaged and plundered any ships or villages they came across. They used extreme violence to rob h...
9 Wacky But Successful Website Ideas
A lot of people play it safe, when trying to make money online. Ebay, Adsense, affiliate marketing, consulting or something along those lines. And, m...
Dojo – Unbeatable JavaScript Tools
JavaScript has become essential amongst Web Developers (probably developers in general). Whether it be AJAX, jQuery, JSON, or CoffeeScript it has become very...
PhoneGap – Makes Apps in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
PhoneGap is one of the best technologies for budding mobile developers, as it combines very simple multi-use markup and scripting languages with the much sou...
How The World Is Against Productivity [Part 2]
Here we explore the other end p
MOG Goes Free, Rdio To Follow
We’re big fans of streaming music websites, as you could probably tell from our post about 5 great online music streaming services. We’re even bigger fans of...
How the World is against Productivity [Part 1]
Part one of the two part article on why new computers are slowing us down while working. This one’s about hardware and recent changes for the worse.
JAVA Tutorial II – Data Types, Scanners, and Java Math (Part I)
Understanding Data Types is a necessity to be learned whenever learning a programming language. As stated in this tutorial, there are 6 major data types. But...
JAVA Tutorial II – Data Types (Part II – Integers)
In this tutorial, we’ll create simple programs using Eclipse that compute solid numbers. We’ll create a program the divides 2 numbers and a program that adds...
JAVA Tutorial II – Data Types (Part V – Char)
What is a Char?
JAVA Tutorial II – Data Types (Part III – Floats)
Floats can do what Ints cannot because Ints are stupid…Just kidding. People prefer Ints because “they use less memory.” Most computers nowadays can handle al...
JAVA Tutorial II – Data Types (Part IV – Double)
What’s A Double?
Mac App Deals And Freebies Of The Day (September 7 2011)
We’re always keeping an eye out for great deals on software for our readers. Today, you Mac users will be happy to hear that we bring you two fabulous freebi...
Chatbot Talks To Chatbot – Amazing And Hilarious!
AI, or artificial intelligence, has been around for quite a while now. It forms a complicated branch of computer science in which computers are programmed to...
12 Cool Screen Savers For Mac
After your computer sits unused for a certain amount of time, a special program called a “screensaver” runs. It may display anything from a beautiful animati...
Understanding The Binary Numeral System (Base Two Numbering System)
The binary numeral system is a numbering system that uses the digits 1 and 0. It is also referred to as the “base two numbering system” due to the fact that ...
iOS 5 To Have Earthquake Warning System For Users In Japan
I’m sure you remember the powerful 8.9 magnitude earthquake that ravaged Japan earlier this year. Some 20,000 people were left dead or missing as a result of...
Google Rolling Out Updated Sign-In Pages
In what is the start of the next step of Google’s redesigned user interface, stylish log-in pages are now available for preview. To view them:
Euclideon Is Back With An Update On Their Unlimited Detail Real-Time Rendering Technology
Last year, a technology company by the name of Euclideon showed off some technology they were working on that had to do with rendering unlimited detail graph...
Top Ten Text Editors and IDEs for Web Development
I looked over many text editors and IDEs while looking for one that catered to all my specifications. I concluded that just 1 IDE or Text Editor wouldn’t suf...
How to Begin Programming Part I
Programming is a dead useful knowledge one could acquire. It could be applied to any sciences job. It could help one create their own software tailored to th...
Ten Best iOS Games of 2011 (Jan. to Jul.)
In the past couple of months, several very interesting new games came out that require the usage of puzzles and games that have very unique graphics. Here ar...
Hello World! in 20 Different Programming Languages!
I thought I’d do this for fun. You could reference to it whenever you want to learn a Hello, World! for a new language.
P versus NP – Destruction of the Internet
You are going to look at me like I’m crazy, but hypothetically one could destroy the internet. All one would have to do was solve the P versus NP problem (wh...
9 Superb Web-Based Image Editors And Illustrators
I’m sure we’ve all wanted to use image editing software at some point or another, and the two programs that come to mind are Photoshop and Gimp. While they a...
Google+ Now Accessible Via A Native iPhone App
Earlier today, the Google+ iphone app was released on the app store. If you are one of the early adapters of Google+ and you have an iphone, you can downl...
An Excellent Source of Physical Geographic Terms – PhysicalGeography.net
When studying or researching geography, it can be quite troublesome when trying to determine geographic terms or searching for geographic terms (By geographi...
What to Expect When Beginning iPhone App Development
I write this article for those of you who are getting excited with the app development craze and want to jump on the bandwagon as an individual developer. Fo...
Music Streaming Service Spotify Is Now Available In The U.S. !
Spotify, the most popular music streaming service in Europe, is now available in the United States! First introduced in late 2008 to seven countries in Eu...
Khan Academy – A Great, Free Website for Learning a Plethora of Subjects
Khan Academy is a website that contains Free Instructional and Teaching Videos that range from teaching Biology to Economics to Algebra. It has been sponsore...
YouTube Tests A Brand New User Interface
YouTube announced by blog post yesterday that they are testing out a new user interface called “Cosmic Panda”. Users of the popular video sharing service can...
How To Link To A Time In A YouTube Video
All of us are familiar with YouTube, the massive video sharing website where you can upload your own videos or view other people’s videos. What some of us ma...
Skype Version 5.2 Released For Mac
Earlier today, a new version of Skype for Mac was released. You probably already have a version of Skype installed in your personal computer or smartphone, b...
JAVA Tutorial I – Explanation of the Code
There are 3 major sections of this code. The Header, Main Function, and Output. We’ll look over all three of them for a better understanding of the code.
JAVA Tutorial I – Hello World!
You’ve set up the program successfully! So let’s look at the code without further ado!
JAVA Tutorial I – Installing Eclipse and Setting Up the Project
There are many good IDE’s out there, but Eclipse is good for beginning JAVA. I started learning JAVA through Eclipse. So you should go and download it.
JAVA Tutorial I – A Walkthrough with Hello World! (PART I)
I decided to try something new with the tutorials. If I consolidate a lot of the text into several pages, the tutorial may prove to be more effective.
A New Social Network Enters The Game As Google Announces Google+
A user dragging contacts into Circles
QR Codes: What They Are, How You Can Make Your Own, And How You Can Read Them
A QR code that links to Byte Revel
Make Your Lists Social With List.ly!
I recently stumbled upon this appealing website that enables users to build social lists. “How can you make a list social?” you might ask. Well, List.ly allo...
Team Fortress 2 By Valve Now Free-To-Play!
This week Valve is making noise with Team Fortress 2, its popular online shooter game, that was released in 2007. How can such an old game make such news ...
Nerd Rhymes Are On The Rise
Most nerds are not into the whole “rap scene”, however that hasn’t stopped a few geeks from pursuing a career in making rap music! You may be asking yourself...
CSS Tutorial I – What is CSS?
What is CSS?
C++ Tutorial III – Using Simple Mathematics
To understand it better, you should first be familiar with everyday C++ Math Functions. In the following tutorial, look over the following 5 examples and loo...
C++ Tutorial II – Float vs. Int
You may be wondering what is a Float and why it has certain uses that Int cannot handle. All will be explained concisely so you can go back to whatever you d...
Generate Upside-Down Text With This Nifty Website
This fun website allows you to type messages and have them flipped and turned upside-down. It doesn’t actually turn the text upside-down, but by using Latin ...
Play Classic Nintendo Games On Your Computer With The Nestopia Emulator
A Screenshot of Megaman on Nestopia
Understanding Sorting Algorithms
Question: What the !#$% is a Sorting Algorithm?
5 More Websites Where You Can Listen To Music For Free
A while back we reviewed a great service called Grooveshark. While it offers amazing service, some of us crave more. More variety, more features, more songs,...
Top 10 iPhone Games – Point-and-Click iPhone Games
Point-and-Click games aren’t for the impatient (unless you use a walkthrough which is cheating but makes the game more enjoyable. I am pretty impatient and u...
New Google Search Features: Instant Pages, Search By Image, And Search By Voice
Yesterday, Google announced (at the Inside Search event) two new features for Google search. Namely, you are no longer limited to searching by text (now sear...
An Easy to Overlook Google Chrome Time Saver
Everyone has, at one point or another, had to change to a ...
CSS Desk – Preview Your CSS and HTML Pages Online
CSS Desk allows you to incorporate HTML and CSS simultaneously in an online editor. This allows you to test out your ideas without the need for uploading the...
ScummVM – A Great Emulator For Old SCUMM Games
I’m not old enough to pull a “Back in my day” ramble but I can say that ScummVM allows you old timers and adventurous new generation people to play games tha...
Keep Your Eyes Healthy With The Help Of The 20-20-20 Rule and ProtectYourVison.org
Those of us that spend great amounts of time in front of a computer monitor have likely been told about the 20-20-20 rule by our family, friends, and opto...
HTML Tutorial II – Simple Tags for Your Usage
HTML is one of the easiest languages to learn. Specification: Programming languages. But I’m pretty sure you understood what I meant.
The Mac Setting That Changed My Life – Optimize Your Mouse
All these years, I’ve been unaware of a great system preference in the Macintosh OS that allows you to set your mouse to have up to three buttons (left, righ...
The Complete Scoop On The Apple Keynote Announcements At The 2011 WWDC
On June 6th of 2011, Apple gave a keynote presentation at the WWDC (Worldwide Developer Conference). If you missed it, you can view the 2 hour presentation o...
Corona SDK – One of the Most User Friendly SDKs
If you have played Bubble Ball, the game that took Angry Birds Free Version off of its velvet throne atop the Top Free iPhone Games, you would be familiar wi...
HTML Editors Review – A Review of Five Prolific Web Dev Editors
There are many HTML editors out there. Picking one may be a difficult task, and is usually not intended for a reviewer to specify. That is why I took 5 Web E...
ShiVa 3D – An Excellent Game Engine for Mobile Developers
ShiVa 3-D is a very clean Game Engine/SDK that allows you to use a very simple programming language to make high-level graphics games for iPhone, Android and...
HTML Tutorial I – The Basics
Regardless of what people tell you, HTML (Hyper Text Mark-up Language) is not hard to learn. It is arguably the easiest of the 4 major Web Development langua...
Centralize Your Workflow And Files With a Web Desktop!
A web desktop (or “webtop” for short) is a web application that simulates a desktop environment. Web desktops are ideal for:
Use DropBox For Free File Hosting, Easy Media Sharing, And File Portability!
Dropbox is a freemium service that provides file storage in the cloud and, as the title describes, a lot of other things. Dropbox was created by Drew Houston...
Five Very Interesting Websites To Check Out (Link Roundup)
There many fascinating websites on the web that are worth mentioning but don’t quite make it to a full post. Here’s a roundup of 5 websites I’ve found that y...
Screen Record From Your Browser For Free With These Cool Websites
Conveniently make a screencast from your browser with these impressive web services
Block Annoying Website Ads With A Browser Plugin
You'll never see this again
Groovy Music Video – Code Monkey
Jonathan Coulton is “a musician, a singer-songwriter and an internet superstar” who, back in September of 2005, decided to start a “thing a week” campaign. T...
Make your own group social network with Wall.FM (Oxwall)
Similar to social network creator Ning, Wall.fm allows you to construct your own social network without any prior web programming knowledge.
NaClBox – DOSBox For The Web! Play Classic DOS Games In Chrome
We recently reviewed and explained a groovy little application called DOSBox. DOSBox is simply a great MS-DOS emulator. For those of you that don’t want to g...
Top 5 MMORPGs For iOS
Our take on the top 5 Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games!
C++ Tutorial I – Hello World!
Many consider C++ to be cliche and a bit ancient. But nonetheless, it is great for beginners who want to start programming, but don’t know where to start. If...
Ning – Create Your Own Social Network
Social Networking has taken the Internet by storm. From MySpace to Facebook to Formspring to Twitter to Tumblr, Social Networks surround us infinitely. 500 m...
Top 10 iPhone Games – Role Playing Games
RPG Games are quite prolific and there are a million of them on the app store. It may be hard to sift through them to find the best RPG games, so here is a l...
Top 10 iPhone Games – Ported iPhone Games
Ported iPhone Games is a term for games that were intended for other platforms (such as PC) but translated over to iPhone. Here are some of the most prolific...
Angry Birds Released As Free Web Game
Angry Birds, the extremely popular physics game where you launch wingless birds at green pigs, has been released by Rovio Mobile (the developers of the game)...
Top 10 iPhone Games – Physics Games
Wow. Physics games happen to be the best selling throughout the iPhone App store. Well, they do have pigs getting splattered or feeding chubby little monster...
Top URL Shortening Services
URL shortening services have been around for many years. They make life simpler by taking long URLs and making a shortened version. This shortened version is...
Javascript Tutorial I – Hello World!
I see you are back at ByteRevel, and for a good reason. You are interested in the art of Javascripting your HTML page! Well, we cannot progress any further t...
Unity3D
Most video game developers require a solid game engine to make a successful game (I say most due to the fact Zork is a text-based adventure and is quite popu...
Grooveshark Widgets – Embed Music
Grooveshark Widgets Page
New iMacs Announced On May 3rd
On Tuesday, May 3rd, Apple unveiled an update to the line of iMacs. The online store was down for a brief period while Apple updated it. The new iMacs featur...
Use PBWorks For Great Free Project Collaboration or A Simple Website
6 years ago, creating and maintaining a wiki was complicated. It required complex software that only a person proficient in the web development field could m...
Use DOSBox For Smooth, Clean DOS Emulation!
For those of you unfamiliar with DOS, here’s a quick summary:
Plex Media Center (for Mac)
Plex is another amazing mac-only media center that makes accessing your favorite videos and music a breeze!
Boxee Media Center (Cross Platform)
Boxee is a media center for Mac, Windows, Linux, and AppleTV. It boasts social network features, 200+ apps, and a local media aggregator and organizer.
Grooveshark – Listen to Millions of Songs For Free
Ever wanted to play that one song all the way through? For FREE? With Grooveshark, you can do that along with much more! Grooveshark has a massive music coll...