July 2010
30 posts
Jul 30th
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Android wallpaper app that steals your data was... →
Ouch. Not to say that something like this could conceivably get past the Apple watchdogs, though.
Jul 29th
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Jul 29th
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What It's Really Like To Be A Copy Editor - The... →
As one of my multiple hats is that of copy editor for our many deliverables and reports, I especially enjoyed this one.
Jul 29th
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The Emperor's New Antenna
Fantastic bit from Watts Martin’s thoughts on the iPhone 4 antenna issue: Every recent consumer electronics product from Apple—definitely the iPad, but all iterations of the iPhone including the initial one—has been greeted with rounds of articles crowing about what an arrogant, foolhardy mistake it is and how this will finally, finally, be the moment the emperor is revealed to have no...
Jul 29th
Jul 27th
Fraternity of the Wired Works in the Wee Hours -... →
Jul 27th
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Jul 26th
Jul 26th
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Jul 23rd
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Enjoying watching skinny hipsters at SFO, all the right retro-cool garb, including big old-skool luggage. Without wheels. Maybe if she ate a bit, she wouldn’t struggle so with the bag.
Jul 22nd
Windows Phone 7: Don't bother with this disaster →
Ouch.
Jul 20th
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Jul 18th
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Jul 18th
Jul 16th
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I write like David Foster Wallace →
Would be helpful if I knew who this is. Guess it’s time to start reading.
Jul 16th
Jul 16th
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iPhone 4 signal strength woes
In deference to my comrades with iPhone 4 devices, in anticipation of the Apple special event later this Friday, and in oblique reference to the late Michael Jackson, I have made myself a temporary glove out of aluminum foil which I am using to hold my iPhone 3GS in a vain attempt to get it to lose signal strength, after which I will be able to write a long and pithy, data-saturated online essay...
Jul 16th
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Jul 16th
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Jul 16th
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Jul 15th
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Daring Fireball Linked List: Microsoft’s Kin Humiliation Man, that’s got to hurt. I knew some of the Danger folks and they had built an amazing platform. Too bad to see it flushed like this.
Jul 12th
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Jul 10th
New Apple Friend Bar Gives Customers Someone To... →
Jul 9th
Jul 7th
Jul 6th
It’s so hot here, my sweat has sweat dripping off of it.
Jul 6th
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Jul 3rd
“If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years...”
– Milton Friedman (via chelseymathews) (via ohhandrea) (via deaconandreggie)
Jul 2nd
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Out of solidarity with all my iPhone 4 friends, I’m currently sitting here wrapping my iPhone 3GS in Scotch tape, loop by loop by loop. Well, not really.
Jul 1st
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