Mike Puchol

Thoughts after the Menorca TechTalk

After Whisher was acquired by wifi.com in mid-January, I was to continue working as CTO for the new venture as part of the deal. Since I had worked on the technology since the very first day, it made sense that I continued to oversee the development of the new phase of the project. In April, [...]

One reason why Apple took the space out of iPhone 3G S and made it 3GS

In essence – search engines. A search engine will mix results of searches for “iPhone 3G” and “iPhone 3G S”, but maybe not so much for “iPhone 3GS”. Google seems a bit immune to this effect, other engines not so much.

Fifty Tech Startups You Should Know – A Better Scoring System

I read with interest the list of the top 50 startups to watch by BusinessWeek after a post by Martin Varsavsky on Facebook. I think there are considerations not taken in the list, such as how much money every point earned cost, which would measure how good the brand image, PR and relationship with its [...]

Experimenting with HDR photography

It’s been some time since my last post. Many things have happened – started working on wifi.com, some developments at Whisher, and have also started to look into HDR photography. HDR stands for high dynamic range, and it is best explained while following the tutorial by Trey Ratcliff, who creates frames like this one:

My first [...]