July 2009
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In the distance, my elder son repeats one of my old classic jokes to his friends. I’m proud, and slightly sorry for him.
When typing, nothing makes a better wrist rest than a mosquito bite.
June 2009
73 posts
iPhone WiFi remote kill as a parenting tool? http://bit.ly/3zNGJ
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iPhone WiFi remote kill as a parenting tool
When the kids were little, it was (relatively) easy to unplug them from anything online - just say “ice cream” or “you’re in trouble now, buster!” and they’d come running.
But now that they’re older, the stakes are higher for online gaming: you can’t just quit on a moment’s notice because you’ll lose the battle (and your level) or...
Designing icons for our upcoming iPhone application
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“I actually have a photographer’s loupe that I use to make sure every pixel...”
– EveryiPod.com
TweetDeck on the iPhone reminds me (in a good way) of the Sidekick due to all the sound effects. In this case, subtle, helpful, and fun.
Figured how to fix iPhone wifi geolocation
Finally figured out how to fix erroneous iPhone geolocation, when you move your wifi access point to a new location and you don’t have a cell signal to prompt the phone to relocate itself. The trick? Tell the phone to forget your wifi access point and then re-add it. I’m guessing the geolocation is stored with the access point data.
Just realizing that Dave Gray’s Flickr pic of my Getting Sh-t Done method has nearly 96,000 views. Holy cow. http://bit.ly/FhL03
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Geolocation on the iPhone 3GS
As a recovering techie, i enjoy how the iPhone (and the Mac, for that matter) hides most of the technology under the covers. But at the same time, my mind is always trying to figure how the have implemented things as well.
Yesterday we went to the cabin, where there is no cell signal. While indoors, I launched the iPhone map app and hit the ‘locate me’ icon - and took the map all...
RT @chaordix: Netflix winner? #crowdsourcing #innovation http://ow.ly/fZzw
Fistfight with Windows XP. Currently in Round 5, Windows XP up by 3 points.
On the road with the Galaxie http://bit.ly/TvgxO
Picking up the Galaxie 500 from the shop - much brake work and a professional polish job, just in time for 4th of July parade
for some reason, @ilanawesterman and my MacBook Pros just recently started *sporadically* running the fan HARD for no apparent reason :-(
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Out to dinner, just me and the boys at our favorite diner!
Looks like feature bloat is coming to make-up as well … http://twitpic.com/8e48p
i need a ‘slightly older dude who doesn’t hear the crispness of the highs like he used to’ setting on my iTunes equalizer
slides are posted from my O’Reilly presentation on Monday http://bit.ly/eD6Up
Run the OLPC software on a Mac or PC via a USB stick - cool: http://tinyurl.com/lxqwnw
Download the OLPC software onto a USB stick to run... →
Matt liked my funny: RT @maxanger: “With Bing, you get infinite puppies” #velocityconf
Getting ready to do my Ignite presentation at #velocityconf
I want a ‘show me a random app’ button in the iPhone app store. Oh, and a ‘eliminate unhelpful reviews’ filter. And a free puppy.
First day with new Techniques full-ear headphones: lots of eq twiddling. Second day: realizing it sounds fantastic with no eq twiddles.
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iPhone: Which iPhone 3.0 software features does my... →
No Bluetooth ad-hoc gaming for me? *snif*
9:01 am: Pre-planned water outage in the neighborhood while they repair the street. 9:03 am: Suddenly very, very thirsty.
Nice iPhone 3.0 find: tap-and-hold on links in the browser lets you open them in a new browser pane. Sweet!
anyone out there know xbox 360 account management inside and out, especially family sub-accounts?
Running 3.0 on a pwned tmob phone
artifact from the future: smart software that looks at your photos and figures out the approx year based on consumer products in the shot
warmed my bagel by putting it on a paper plate and setting it on top of my macbook pro power brick. mmm, warm bagel.
yay hooray, applecare just came thru in a big, big way - fixed my borked macbook pro, no questions, no charge, all new!
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New and shiny doesn't mean 'iPhone killer'
“NOKIA LAST night introduced its new N97 smartphone, the device which will put the world’s largest maker of mobile phones head to head against Apple, which has surprised the market with strong sales of its iPhone.”
Why is it that anything with a touch screen is being called the ‘iPhone killer’? People have been trotting out the features and functions argument forever: it...
rock! just invited to speak at O’Reilly Ignite session next week: http://en.oreilly.com/velocity2009/public/schedule/detail/9375
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i want one button that tells all of my social media sites that “no, i don’t know that person, really I don’t”
concerned (paranoid) about privacy? don’t type your home address into google maps … pick a house a few doors down
Just watched Gran Torino. Shouldn’t have.
Gas pump: “Enter Zip”. If someone stole my wallet, wouldn’t they have my Driver’s License with my Zip anyway?
after getting hands-on time with the #Pre, #SidekickLX2009, and #TMobileG1, i’m feeling warm fuzzies towards my pwned 1st gen iPhone
dreaming of retiring as family IT support guy
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