Nick Iandolo

Nick Iandolo is a Boston-based professional corporate MarComm writer, journalist, and author. He writes articles about pop-culture events such as comic cons, movie reviews, local film and TV industry news, Boston and international travel, and technology blogs. He is currently working on a science-based children’s adventure chapter book series.

Cutting the Cord Recording OTA Broadcasts with PVR

How to Record Over-the-Air TV Without a Cable TV Box DVR

With a little digging and some DIY know-how, you can record Over-the-Air TV with a Personal Video Recorder. Here’s how to do it.

Smart Home – May 2, 2017

Mac OS X Mission Control allows users to have multiple desktops for better workflow with one monitor.

How to Set Up Mission Control in Mac and Make It Work for You

Mission Control is a useful feature in Mac that allows you to organize your Desktop and applications. Here’s how to set up Mission Control in Mac and improve your productivity.

Mac – Apr 1, 2017

Article on how to change a WordPress themes header image when the theme doesn't allow for it.

How to Change a WordPress Header Image When Your Theme Doesn’t Have a Setting for It

Most of the free WordPress themes out there don’t come with a customization option. Here is how you can change the WordPress header image when the theme doesn’t have a setting for it.

Internet – Mar 30, 2017

In August 2006, naturalists Chris Atkins and Michael Taylor waded into a remote grove in Redwood National Park and pointed a laser rangefinder at a tree that turned out to be 380 feet tall, and the National Park Service has refused to disclose its location ever since, fearing the foot traffic alone would kill it.

Jun 2, 2026

Female engineer testing sound waves in an anechoic chamber with a monitor.

Inside a six-walled wedge-foam chamber on Microsoft’s Redmond campus, the background sound is so far below human hearing that visitors start to perceive the grinding of their own joints, the rush of blood in their ears, and eventually a faint ringing that turns out to be the firing of their own nerves.

Jun 2, 2026

Psychology suggests people who browse social media but never post or comment aren’t passive — they’ve simply opted out of the performance while retaining access to the information, which is a sign of quiet self-awareness

Jun 2, 2026

In 1964, IBM risked its entire corporate empire on the System/360, a chaotic gamble to make all of its future machines compatible with the same software — and the architecture proved so robust that modern enterprise mainframes today are still running sections of binary code written more than sixty years ago

Jun 2, 2026

In 1982, a Soviet pipeline suddenly exploded with the force of a tactical nuclear weapon, and the disaster was traced back to a stolen piece of Canadian pipeline software — and years later, it was revealed the CIA had intentionally allowed the KGB to steal the code, after subtly altering the software’s logic to trigger a catastrophic pressure surge months down the line.

Jun 2, 2026

In the early 1980s, a Dutch radio broadcaster figured out how to transmit video games over standard commercial radio broadcasts — and teenagers across Europe would sit with blank cassette tapes waiting for the local station to broadcast a series of high-pitched squeaks and buzzes that they could record and load into their home computers

Jun 2, 2026

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