September 2007
Installer.app makes iPhone mods simple →
So the iPhone has been out for a couple months now, and I’ve pretty much left mine alone—no hacking of any sort, beyond trying out Ambrosia’s new iToner. Then today, fellow Macworld staffer Chris Breen pointed me to Nullriver’s Installer.app beta. Using this program, “hacking” your iPhone to support third-party apps and tools is amazingly simple. Run the Installer.app on your Mac, then switch to...
DNC to Florida: Drop Dead →
Via Taegan Goddard’s Political Wire:
Marc Ambinder has a copy of a letter DNC Chairman Howard Dean sent to each Democratic presidential candidate today, strongly urging “to do
your part and support the action of the Rules and Bylaws Committee” finding Florida’s advanced primary in non-compliance with delegate selection rules last weekend.
They can go f*** themselves. They […]
Finally! →
Via MacNN | The Macintosh News Network:
Toyota on Friday released an iPod Integration Kit that works in all current Toyota and Lexus models. The kit, first announced in early May, is installed in the vehicle’s glove box: it connects Apple’s iPod directly to the car’s audio system and can recharge the iPod’s battery, according to […]
August 2007
Want to Run Tiger and Leopard Side-by-Side? →
Mac OS X developer describes the MacBook Pro setup he uses to develop and test for Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5 at the same time.
An Open Letter to NBC re: Leaving Apple’s iTunes... →
Jeremy Horwitz to NBC:
In other words, the per-episode price people are accustomed to paying for what you show on television is “zero”, or something very close to it.
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Rats fleeing the sinking ship →
First Rove. Then Gonzales, Now Tony Snow resigned. Any bets on when Cheney will quit?
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Sigur Rós documentary film: Heima →
Speaking of alt-music documentaries, check out the lush trailer for Heima, which follows the Icelandic hometown hijinx of Sigur Rós: Link. Ganked (like the other blogged today) from Souris Hong-Porretta, who says, most correctly: “You ain’t human if SR don’t make you weep.”
iToner released: Custom ringtones without hacking,... →
Ambrosia Software has released iToner, a Mac OS X tool that allows you to transfer custom ringtones for your iPhone - without modifying, hacking or having to reset your iPhone. You drag and drop MP3 or AAC audio files on iToner’s window, click the Sync button, and the items are automatically moved into the iPhone’s ringtones section. Ambrosia says the ringtones will continue to work with future...
08.31.07 : music viddy zen →
stronger jan pehechaan ho are friends electric killing floor beggin war photographer herr bar colonel blimp
previously on web zen… music viddy zen 2004
August 2007 Zoon Awards for Technical Ignorance... →
Daniel Eran Dilger In an effort to recognize the spectacular efforts of individuals and organizations promoting the regression of human achievement in the field of technology, a series of nominations await your vote to determine the recipients of August 2007 Zoon Awards. Meet the Zoons. Segregated by color, the various Zoons highlight the world’s absolute worst in small minded ignorance,...
Parallels Desktop Beta 2 Released →
Competition is heating up in the Mac virtualization software market with the release of Parallels latest beta. Build 5120 adds several new features and improves performance dramatically. I’m now…
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Cat Photography →
Special cat photographers There must be a gazillion photographs of cats on the internet. Most are by amateurs. Of these some are not bad and some good with a very small percentage that are special.
There are professional photographers who specialize in cat photography (not many though :-)). As is the case for amateurs, there are some good and some bad. And then there are the best . But where...
CS Odessa Announces New ConceptDraw Project 4,... →
Odessa, Ukraine, August 30, 2007 – CS Odessa today announced the upcoming planned release of ConceptDraw Project 4 for Macintosh and Windows, scheduled for general availability in mid-September…
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With A Lttle Help From Their Friends →
In 1971, George HarrisonRIP and Ravi Shankar organized, promoted, and put on The Concert for Bangladesh – the first high-profile rock concert to raise money (administered by UNICEF) for humanitarian causes – at NYC’s Madison Square Garden. Performances: Ravi Shankar { Bangla Dhun } George Harrison and band { Wah Wah, My Sweet Lord, Awaiting On You All, That’s The Way God Planned...
Ndongo Mbaye alongside Baab Maal@ The Royal... →
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Two Years Later →
Exactly two years ago, Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans. While I was at the gym today, Magnolia Soul by Ozomatli came up in shuffle on my iPhone. A very appropriate song for today.
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Paul Krassner's "Assholes of the Week #7" →
Realist publisher and Yippies founder Paul Krassner writes a weekly column, called “Assholes of the Week.” This recent edition, no. 7, targets Senator Larry Craig, Mitt Romney, John Kerry, and Wesley Clark. Why Clark? Because he knew the war on Iraq was bogus in 2001 and didn’t say anything about it until recently:
General Wesley Clark, for waiting until recently to...
No Beatles... but Custom Ringtones? →
AlleyInsider claims (reliability unknown) that “a well-informed source” has told them that the Beatles will not be introduced at Apple’s media event next week.
Their source does expect a new iPod, but also a new Ringtone feature for iP…
Illegal attacks →
Ian Brown, the former lead singer with The Stone Roses has a new single out. Illegal Attacks is an anti-war song featuring Sinead O’Connor urging the US and UK governments to “bring the soldiers back home”. The striking thing about the song, to my mind, is its scarcity value.
The War in Vietnam brought us anti-war songs by Glen Campbell (Galveston); Crosby, Stills, Nash and...
Tiny motherboard fits small budgets →
Via’s first motherboard in the playing-card-sized ‘pico-ITX’ format (3.8 x 2.8 inches) has just become available from several online retailers, at prices within the reach of hobbyists and experimenters. The PX10000G supports both Linux and Windows, and comes with I/O transition cables. Let the fun projects begin!
CBGB founder Hilly Kristal, RIP →
Hilly Kristal, founder of legendary NYC punk nightclub CBGB died yesterday. He was 1975. CBGB was the birthplace of such influential artists as Talking Heads, Ramones, Blondie, Patti Smith, and a slew of others. From the New York Times (photo from Kristal’s Wikipedia entry):
From its opening in late 1973, when Mr. Kristal, a lover of acoustic music, gave the club its name, an...
The Curator of Punk, R.I.P. →
Via MetaFilter: Hilly Kristal has died at age 75. First the club, now the man.
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Apple seizes one in six laptop sales →
Apple share prices rocketed upward when the company began shipping its iPhone in late June, but a study suggesting that the computer maker now sells more than one in six laptops in the U.S. may serve to remind industry watchers that iPhones are only part of the bigger picture. Apple reported record breaking Mac sales in late July when disclosing th…
Was The Windows Registry a Good Idea? →
One of the hot new features introduced with Windows 95 was the Windows Registry. The Windows Registry offered a centralized database-like location to store application and system settings. No more plain text .INI files splattered all over your system. Instead, issue a few easy API calls and your application settings are safely nestled away deep inside the registry hive.
But after living with...
Apple Now Selling Better Than One Laptop In Six →
Lucas123 writes “Apple’s share of the laptop market has grown over the past few years and the company is now beating Gateway in sales, according research firm NPD Group Inc. in Port Washington, NY. ‘Their sales are continuing to grow faster than the rest of the marketplace,’ the firm stated. In June Apple was responsible for 17.6% of laptops sold (at retail) in the US and...
links for 2007-08-28 →
Toolchain Project - The iPhone Dev Wiki
GCC and other tools for building native iPhone software
(tags: iPhone development)
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September 1752, The Month That Wasn’t →
Want to see a cool trick and learn some history? Go into terminal (if you are using UNIX or Mac OS X) and type in “cal 9 1752″ at the prompt. What will be displayed is a calendar of September 1752. The odd thing is that there is an entire 11 days missing from the month (Sept. 3rd-13th), as seen here:
Hit the jump for an explanation.
Apparently, England needed to...
The Downsides of Software as Service →
JustinBrock writes “Dvorak’s article yesterday, entitled Don’t Trust the Servers, argues that the danger of software as a service was highlighted when ‘the WGA [Windows Genuine Advantage] server outage hit on Friday evening and was finally repaired on Saturday. It was down for 19 long hours.’ The whole fiasco raises an interesting perspective on the software as a...
Kenbushi Pro v7.1 Media Entertainment Center Now... →
ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA — August 28, 2007 — Lava Software is now shipping Kenbushi Pro v7.1, a powerful media entertainment center with built-in file sharing and data backup.
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2bits: Measuring memory consumption by Drupal... →
In a previous article, I described the “open buffet binge syndrome” where sites overconsume contrib modules, and gave examples where Apache memory was more than 100MB per process.
Today, I tried to take that further, and trace where this memory is consumed and by which modules. This lead to several interesting tangents.
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CS Odessa releases ConceptDraw MINDMAP 5... →
Odessa, Ukraine, August 28, 2007 – CS Odessa today announced the general availability of ConceptDraw MINDMAP 5 for Macintosh.
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Install iPhone apps painlessly →
The folks at Nullriver have released a GUI installer that makes installing unsupported third party iPhone applications painless and fairly safe. AppTapInstaller leads you step by step through the…
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