July 2009
29 posts
Firefox 3.5 Released →
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Unless you like your extensions not working, I’d wait a week or so before using it.
You may already be running Firefox 3.5, if you grabbed it early from Mozilla’s FTP…
June 2009
91 posts
Find My iPhone location tracking enables all-city... →
Filed under: iPhone, MobileMe
We’re not 100% convinced of the safety of his approach, but Kevin Miller’s determination to recover his lost iPhone — combined with the power of…
AT&T: $55 Tethering Rumors Are False →
AT&T statement: There are a lot of reports out there, but wanted you guys to know that rumors of $55 tethering plan on top of an unlimited data plan are false. We’ll have more news to share when…
Build a No-Slip Phone Dock and Charger for $5... →
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i shall build it and it shall be good
Yesterday’s simple guide to turning old CDs into an iPod dock inspired reader longbourne to write in with his own DIY phone/iPod…
Simulate Office Presence with Skype and VNC... →
Former cubicle jockey Jonathon Wilson now works from home, but it’s almost exactly as if he’s at his desk at the office. In the comments of my recent article on working remotely, …
Diorama will tilt your mind →
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wow, that looks awesome
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Gaming, Software, Odds and ends, Apple, iPhone, App Store, iPod touch
See, now this is…
City to job applicants: Facebook, MySpace log-ins... →
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This is simply unacceptable.
One of the things people tend to forget when posting pictures and personal information online is that a lot of it is only a short…
Pixar Grants Girl’s Dying Wish With Home Viewing... →
Annie Burris, reporting for The Orange County Register: Colby Curtin, a 10-year-old with a rare form of cancer, was staying alive for one thing — a movie. From the minute Colby saw the previews…
AT&T's free hotspot access finally useful... →
Back in the stone age — iPhone OS 2.x, that is — men wrestled wild boar to the ground with their bare hands, wore Members Only jackets, and connected to AT&T hotspots using an…
AT&T's free hotpost access finally useful... →
Back in the stone age — iPhone OS 2.x, that is — men wrestled wild boar to the ground with their bare hands, wore Members Only jackets, and connected to AT&T hotspots using an…
Yeah, What Is A Browser Anyway? →
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hahaha, it’s funny. But you have to be a geek to really laugh at it.
My esteemed colleague MG Siegler just posted about an admittedly quite in-your-face campaign from…
AT&T, Verizon execs: we don't collude on... →
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Collusion may not have occurred, but it still doesn’t make it right that we’re paying up to $0.20/message.
Testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee’s antitrust…
Have A “Cheap” iPhone 3G Plan? Don’t Expect A... →
So, after a tidal wave of criticism from the iPhone early adopters, AT&T is doing the right thing — kind of. Today, AT&T issued an update to its policy regarding the iPhone 3G S upgrade…
AT&T revises 3G S iPhone upgrade policy →
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good news for your iphone 3g peeps
Filed under: iPhone
It’s no secret that I didn’t mind AT&T’s pricing of their 3G S upgrades. However, 3G owners were upset that…
AT&T makes it easier for iPhone OS 3.0 users... →
Filed under: Wireless, Odds and ends, Internet, iPhone
Among the many wonderful (and sometimes frustrating) new features of iPhone OS 3.0 was one that was announced today by…
Focus Faster by Preparing Next Tasks Before Breaks... →
It’s easy to avoid losing steam and wasting time getting back into your workflow. Taking just a bit of time to prep next tasks before a calming break makes it so. Photo by Brittany Culver. …
The Freelancer's iPhone: Productivity solutions... →
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Software, Features, iPhone, iPod touch
Last summer I started to fantasize about working for myself. I pictured a home office, afternoons with the…
What to do with that old iPhone? →
Filed under: How-tos, iPhone
At first I was going to wait until December when I could upgrade my 3G iPhone to a 3G S for the best price, but the thought of that better camera resolution…
ARM promises dual-core Cortex A9-based smartphones... →
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For you iPhone 3g owners who can’t upgrade. It may be worth the wait for a dual core iPhone next year.
The world’s two most visually engaging smartphones — the …
Biblemap.org Shows Location of Important Biblical... →
If you find that figuring out and visualizing the exact location of an event or place referenced in the Bible has you wishing for a 1000 B.C. version of Google Maps, you’re now in luck….
Teen Diagnoses Self in Science Class →
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Good Job M.D.s Good job. I never want to live in Sammamish, WA
Paging Dr. House. The stomach pain, vomiting, and fever that Sammamish, Washington teen Jessica Terry had…
Walk and Work With a Treadmill Desk →
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one of my clients has these for a lot of their employees. I really want one.
These days, an office desk or cubicle often resembles the control panel for a spaceship….
Supermarket generates piezoelectric power in... →
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I wonder if the energy created is offset by the extra energy required for the car to move over those plates. Not to mention the cost of installation of the system. I think I…
Multi-touch coming to older MacBooks? Not so... →
Filed under: Hardware, Hacks, Macbook Pro, MacBook, MacBook Air, Snow Leopard
Mac Life and Gizmodo are both reporting that Snow Leopard will add multi-touch gestures to…
Microsoft Has Found The Cheapest Meals In America... →
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commendable that they’re donating money, but not commendable that they let their marketing dept get carried away with putting “8” in there to match IE8.
So, maybe you…
AACS license finalized; managed copy coming to... →
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more fail. Managed copy just seems like a stupid idea. Especially since it requires a new type of blu-ray player. lame…
The finalization of the licensing agreement…
Juvenile Thief Nabbed Thanks to Poorly Timed Text... →
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hahahaha
Police tracked down a burglar in Boca Raton, Florida this week thanks to some ill advised text messaging. According to PalmBeachPost.com, police…
Goodbye Old Friend. R.I.P. Rajeev Motwani →
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It’s nice to see that a kind hearted man was a supporting force behind a lot of technology you see today.
Updated, June 7, 2009: Rajeev Motwani, one of the savviest angel…
Pocket Retro Game Emulator →
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i want
Could this no-name device give you more fun than your iPod and PSP combined? Sure sounds like it. The Pocket Retro Game Emulator ($100) plays NES, SNES, GBA,…
RoBe:Do's newest 'just add netbook'... →
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i want!
Looks like the RoBe:Do gang, who recently blew our minds (well, filled our tummies) with their Twitteriffic Popcorn Poppin’ Bot, are back on the scene with…
Jon Rubinstein's new salary: $850,000 per year,... →
The Palm Pre might not be a million dollar idea, but it’s close. It’ll bag Jon Rubinstein, Palm’s new CEO, a cool $850,000 in salary each year according to Palm’s Form 8-K just released….
Learn to Season Your Cast-Iron Skillet [Eat To... →
When we showed your our five must-have kitchen tools and asked for yours, the classic cast-iron skillet ranked high on your list. The catch to cast iron: You’ve got to know how to…
Final Frame: Deadline →
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RS@TJ: This is awesome
A student project by Savannah College of Art and Design senior Bang-Yao Liu explores pixel-based procrastination of the best variety. [via …
Andy Ihnatko on Google Wave →
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A really good article on Wave
Best piece on Wave’s potential I’ve seen yet: I imagine that there are as many pitfalls to defining and explaining Wave as Westinghouse and…
Trains for iPhone: For lovers of Flight Control,... →
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I think my friend Adam would like this App. This AND the aforementioned Flight Control. if only he didn’t lose his iPhone.
Filed under: Gaming, iPhone, App Store, …
LiberKey Installs 200+ Portable Applications... →
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I used to find the concept of portable apps more appealing. But they generally run on Windows machines. And honestly, I would say right about now more than 50% of the people I…
Apple’s Awesome App Wall Gets Photosynthed →
The web has been abuzz lately over Apple’s awesome Matrix-style app wall at WWDC, which displays 20,000 of the platform’s most popular applications in a dense, moving grid. It’s certainly a…
Get Tastier Results by Salting Your Meat at the... →
Many people plan their meals just enough ahead that they don’t have time to season their meat until right before it hits the skillet. Many pros swear that for the best results, you season a…
11-Year-Old Graduates College with Astrophysics... →
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be afraid of this kid, very afraid…
Eleven-year old Moshe Kai Cavalin wants to be an Olympic martial arts master and an actor — as soon as he has proven the existence…
Heinz Introduces USB-Powered 'World's... →
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hahaha. It is ridiculous, but I can’t help love the fact that it’s a miniature microwave.
We’ve already told you about a microwave for the car (which frankly might…
Pure Digital: Thanks For The $1.3 Million Check!... →
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wow, $1.3 million
So here I am this morning opening a pile of mail - schwag from companies, bills, checks for Heather, payroll stuff, the usual. I rip all the envelopes…
Web Sites Every Science Geek Should Know →
If you’ve ever had a question about hierarchical multiple regression or parametric graphs and didn’t know where to turn, we’ve got a bookmark-worthy Web page just for you. Mary Spiro of The…
You Have Three Days To Pick Your Facebook Vanity... →
What are you doing this Friday night? Going to a bar with friends? Going to a movie? Wrong.
If you’re a real web addict you’ll be sitting at your computer waiting for the clock to strike…
Google Apps Will Soon Support Outlook Sync with... →
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wow this is huge
Windows only: Google Apps Sync is a new free utility from Google that syncs your Google Apps (Premier or Education edition) email, contacts, and…
The Man With The Golden iPhone: Spymaster Going... →
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i don’t think I know a single person who plays spymaster? do any of you?
By now you either are addicted to Spymaster, or absolutely can’t stand it. The viral…
Latest Snow Leopard and iPhone 3.0 OS (With... →
The latest developer build of Snow Leopard and the iPhone 3.0 OS software (which aqllows tethering) are available on the Bittorrent file-sharing network.
Programmers at WWDC got the…
Instapaper Adds Multi-Column Printing for Saved... →
Multi-column printing is how newspapers make the most efficient use of limited space. Instapaper, the previously mentioned bookmarking webapp, offers multi-column formatting for printing…
Apple Videoconferencing Kit Now Available for... →
Like always, most of the rumors were random crap (except the leaked Chinese photos and our predictions.) The front-facing videoconference camera was wrong—as we know now—but Apple has a…
13 Awesome Money Saving Sites We Love at Wise... →
By Greg Go When we found the 190 best money saving resources on the web, there were a few sites that made us say “wow!” and stood out from the crowd for one reason or another. Some had…
Test Your Earthquake Knowledge With Quake Quiz →
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For all the Californian noobs
The San Francisco Department of Emergency Management wants to make earthquakes, or at least learning about earthquakes, fun. In order to…