June 2008
Teens Claim They Were Banned From All Apple Stores... →
We’re not really sure what to make of this, but it looks like Apple’s a little less friendly about people hacking their display iPhones as we thought. Four teenagers in Palo Alto, CA claim that they…
Jun 1st
Teens Claim They Were Banned From All Apple Stores... →
We’re not really sure what to make of this, but it looks like Apple’s a little less friendly about people hacking their display iPhones as we thought. Four teenagers in Palo Lato, CA claim that they…
Jun 1st
A Better Primary →
Regardless of stance on the seatings, we should all agree that the Michigan and Florida debacle has put into stark relief how messed up the Democratic nominating system is. With the ins-and-outs of…
Jun 1st
May 2008
Clearing the air with Twitter →
Yesterday Evan Williams (co-founder of Twitter, his Twitter account is here) wrote me an email telling me he wasn’t blaming me and trying to clear the air. I said “can I come over?” to talk more…
May 31st
Nikon D400 - 14MP is FX and D3x - 24.8MP? New... →
Hans has an inside scoop (Thanks Hans)! Hi, I was working with another photographer in Munich Germany yesterday. He works for Nikon. During the European Championship in Soccer the next…
May 31st
Christmas to Come Early →
Section: Apple, Apple News, Rumors, Steve Jobs, Updates, Conferences, WWDC, Software + Apps, .Mac, iPhone + Communications, iPhone, iPhone SDK & Apps, Mac + Computers, …
May 31st
iPhone will shake up Canada, analysts say →
Shared by mike3k I wish they’d finally release it in Canada. It would be one less obstacle if I move to Vancouver. The introduction of the iPhone in Canada will fuel increased interest in wireless…
May 31st
Air Travel Sucks →
Shared by mike3k The next time I go to Vancouver I might drive. I don’t relish the thought of driving that far alone, but it may be cheaper and less annoying than flying. Survey says… …
May 31st
Goodbye! →
Just a short note to everyone who’s been a loyal reader for the past 2.5+ years that today is my last day at Parallels. It’s very hard to leave after putting so much of my heart, soul and sweat…
May 30th
No Way to Build an Operating System →
Shared by Robert Scoble Heh, I was there when Lenn was sending those emails around (he was my boss at the time). Apple and Google have been kicking Microsoft’s behind for a long time, here’s to…
May 30th
Inside the Attack that Crippled Revision3 →
Shared by Robert Scoble This is really a pisser. I’ll be at Revision 3 later this morning and will see what the latest is. As many of you know, Revision3’s servers were brought down over the…
May 30th
★ Mobile Me? →
Poking around the updated files in 10.5.3, the Russian-language site Deep Apple noticed that iCal’s “Localizable.strings” resource file now contains placeholder text for the name “.Mac”, with the…
May 30th
FCC Pitches Free, Bowdlerized Wireless Internet... →
Aidtopia writes “FCC Chairman Kevin Martin is proposing auctioning off an unused part of the 25 MHz spectrum on the condition that the winner provide free wireless Internet access. The proposal sets…
May 30th
Huckabee: Greatest Threat to GOP is Ron Paul... →
The greatest threat to classic Republicanism is not liberalism; it’s this new brand of libertarianism, which is social liberalism and economic conservatism, but it’s a heartless, callous, soulless…
May 29th
Scott Stevenson Interviews Aaron Hillegass →
On the occasion of the publication of the third edition of Hillegass’s Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X, which is generally regarded as the best getting-started-with-Cocoa book on the market….
May 29th
Malkin is a slattern →
Did she give herself a pseudonym? A.Word.A.Day — malkin : malkin (MO-kin, MAL-kin) noun 1. An untidy woman; a slattern. 2. A scarecrow or a grotesque effigy. 3. A mop made of a…
May 29th
Huckabee Versus Freedom →
Mike Huckabee denounces libertarianism as a “heartless, callous, soulless type of economic conservatism” that poses “the greatest threat to classic Republicanism” and is “not an American message.”…
May 29th
Bush Guilty of Treason? →
McClellan tells Today Show Bush authorized Plame leak: At 3 minutes into the Today Show interview with Meredith Viera, McClellan relates a moment on Air Force One where Bush admitted to him that he…
May 29th
Obama Qua Obama →
This is a clever trick of zuzu’s: So, here’s the exercise for Obama supporters:…what is your plan for reaching out to disgruntled Clinton supporters? What do you think Obama should do to reach out…
May 29th
MSR Asirra: A Human Interactive Proof →
An alternative to captchas, in which you pick out pictures of cats.
May 29th
Designing For Evil →
Shared by mike3k Selling or using automated spamming software should be a felony. Have you ever used Craigslist? It’s an almost entirely free, mostly anonymous classified advertising service…
May 29th
Are "ideas" the cure to what ails conservatism? →
[Kathy G.] Lately, we’ve heard a lot about how conservatives are allegedly “out of ideas.” Lack of ideas is supposedly the reason conservatives have recently been losing a slew of …
May 29th
“Ghosts go through walls.” →
[Alyssa] One of my friends from college had an Electronic Frontier Foundation sticker on his laptop bearing the legend “Information Wants to Be Free.” One of the coolest examples of that sentiment…
May 29th
Web Start-Up a Joint Israeli-Palestinian Venture →
G.ho.st, an Internet start-up that aims to give users a free, Web-based virtual computer, is being built by colleagues on opposite sides of the Israeli-Palestinian divide.
May 29th
Indiana Malkin and the Slightly Scary Neckware of... →
I think perhaps the biggest danger facing America today is a new, tubthumping stupidity. Stupidity kills more Americans each year than terrorism, lightning, and bad gravy combined. Via diarist …
May 28th
WhatTheFont →
“Upload a scanned image of the font and instantly find the closest matches in our database.” I’ve been using this site for years, but I don’t think I’ve ever linked to it. Works surprisingly well. …
May 28th
Google Web Toolkit 1.5 Release Candidate →
I’m excited to report that there are some fresh new links on our download page leading to a release candidate of Google Web Toolkit 1.5. Since the previous release of GWT, we’ve seen a lot of…
May 28th
Absolute Software Wins CODiE Award for Best Data... →
Absolute Software has won the 2008 CODiE award for “Best Data Security Solution” by the Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA). The CODiE Awards are issued yearly for…
May 28th
Bypassing Objective-C's Message Passing Mechanism... →
The author compares the performance of objC message passing, calling the method directly, and a C function. In this case, 53% of the CPU time is spent in objc_msgSend.
May 28th
Iraq War = “not necessary”, “a serious strategic... →
- Check what he wrote on Katrina and on Condoleeza Rice. - And, now, the clincher: [Scott McClellan] does not exempt himself from failings — “I fell far short of living up to…
May 28th
Google’s App Engine Opens For Business (GOOG) →
Google’s cloud-computing-for-rent service App Engine will open to the public today, in conjunction with the company’s I/O Developer Conference in San Francisco. App Engine was originally…
May 28th
Microsoft Windows 7? We Already Hate It* →
Unlike many Valley folks, we don’t have an anti-Microsoft thing. We swear. But if Microsoft (MSFT) wants us to get excited its new about Windows 7, it’s going to have to explain a few…
May 28th
Wild About Music →
Shared by mike3k Yet another awesome photo from Stuck In Customs. This is the coolest music store in the world! It’s called “Wild About Music” and it’s right in the middle of downtown Austin on…
May 28th
Space Station Toilets Poop Out →
Shared by mike3k Best headline of the day :) otter42 writes “The International Space Station’s toilet has gone kaput. It seems that the system for separating solid and liquid waste has developed a…
May 28th
Bombshell Book Rocks White House →
News of the extremely critical memoir from former Bush spokesman Scott McClellan dominates the headlines this morning. First Read: “The news of Scott McClellan’s new book on President…
May 28th
Bypassing Objective-C's Message Passing... →
hohlecow: “When possible, I like to use Objective-C for its pure encapsulation. The convenience of message passing in Objective-C, however, can be a performance hinderance when calling methods…
May 28th
baconfat.muxtape.com →
I *MUST* have the Vampire Weekend/Fela mashup from this muxtape!
May 28th
MuxFind: Search for Muxtapes →
search muxtape.com for songs, artists, or tapes.
May 28th
AJAX Libraries API - Google Code →
The AJAX Libraries API is a content distribution network and loading architecture for the most popular open source JavaScript libraries. By using the Google AJAX API Loader’s google.load() method,…
May 28th
McClellan Blasts Bush White House →
According to Politico, former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan “writes in a surprisingly scathing memoir to be published next week that President Bush ‘veered terribly off…
May 28th
You CAN Shoot Here and There! →
Carolyn E. Wright writes, “Note that in the U.S., it is not illegal to photograph while on public transporation.” Wright also mentions that there is an excellent documentary about the right to…
May 28th
Tell Me What I’m Getting Wrong →
Let’s say that Clinton gets the Michigan and Florida delegations seated. All this changes is that Obama’s lead in pledged delegates is lessened, but he would still have the lead. He would also…
May 27th
No Clear Path for Clinton's Political Future →
The Washington Post looks at Sen. Hillary Clinton’s future and notes many Democrats “are now pointing to the Sen. Edward M. Kennedy model as a path for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton to reshape her…
May 27th
Via Releases Laptop Design as Open Source →
Via Technologies released the hardware design for a low-cost laptop with WiMax support under an open-source license, a move intended to make customization easier.
May 27th
Michael Arrington on Copyright: Wrong →
Michael Arrington’s position on copyright seems to be that people are going to steal, no one should do anything about it, and that copyright based businesses are going to die and that’s not…
May 27th
Goodnight Bush →
Goodnight Bush, an “unauthorized parody” of the classic children’s book, should be a favorite gift for Democrats across the country this year. From the book cover: “In this…
May 27th
Special Notebook Cases Will Ease Airport Security... →
Shared by mike3k Unfortunately this comes too late for WWDC. The Transportation Security Administration is close to a new policy that will allow notebook computers to remain inside some special…
May 27th
Canonical CEO says Ubuntu Netbook Remix build... →
Filed under: Laptops You never really know what all will emerge from a simple interview, and thanks to a recent sit-down with Canonical chief executive Mark Shuttleworth, we now know that…
May 27th
VIA unveils OpenBook subnotebook reference design →
Filed under: Laptops VIA’s trying its hand once again at the “mini-note” form factor, with a new OpenBook reference design. Its first go round, the NanoBook, was generally panned in…
May 27th
Photoshop Tutorials Galore →
Here are a few Photoshop tutorials to keep anyone busy while at the same time “sharpening” your skills… How to Straighten a Crooked Photo… Creative Photo Collage… Professional Skin…
May 27th