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File Sharing on the iPad
Two great methods detailed, though clearly I recommend the last method of using Dropbox.
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WordPress 3.0 New Features Guide
For a short while I used the WordPress 3.0 beta on this site, when I switched serves and hosts I went back to WordPress 2.9.x. For no other reason than to ensure stability, though I never encountered any errors with the beta. 3.0 is a welcomed update and here is hoping the final comes out…
For a short while I used the WordPress 3.0 beta on this site, when I switched serves and hosts I went back to WordPress 2.9.x. For no other reason than to ensure stability, though I never encountered any errors with the beta. 3.0 is a welcomed update and here is hoping the final comes out soon.
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YouTube May Break Even, Serves 2 Billion Videos a Day
Brad Stone: Google executives said in January that the site, which has perennially lost money, had increased its revenue, and that ad space on YouTube’s home pages for 20 countries was sold out every day toward the end of 2009. Many analysts say YouTube could break even this year for the first time, after five…
Brad Stone:
Google executives said in January that the site, which has perennially lost money, had increased its revenue, and that ad space on YouTube’s home pages for 20 countries was sold out every day toward the end of 2009. Many analysts say YouTube could break even this year for the first time, after five years of large losses generated by its high bandwidth and storage costs.
Two billion views a day before you hit break even, that is a little risky for me.
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How secure is Flash? Here’s what Adobe won’t tell you
Ed Bott: “Old news”? Obi-Wan Kenobi can get away with that kind of hand-waving. The CEO of a public company with a market cap of $18 billion can’t. I intend no criticism of Paczkowski, who did an excellent job under the circumstances, but Geschke’s statement demands some serious fact-checking.
Ed Bott:
“Old news”? Obi-Wan Kenobi can get away with that kind of hand-waving. The CEO of a public company with a market cap of $18 billion can’t. I intend no criticism of Paczkowski, who did an excellent job under the circumstances, but Geschke’s statement demands some serious fact-checking.
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Idiot Emails With Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs (as reported in the post): By the way, what have you done that’s so great? I don’t think Ryan Tate is an idiot for emailing Steve Jobs, but the complete lack of respect that he shows throughout this email chain makes him an idiot bordering on being a moron.
Steve Jobs (as reported in the post):
By the way, what have you done that’s so great?
I don’t think Ryan Tate is an idiot for emailing Steve Jobs, but the complete lack of respect that he shows throughout this email chain makes him an idiot bordering on being a moron.
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Google grabs personal info off of Wi-Fi networks
Michael Liedtke: The incident has prompted Google to abandon its effort to collect Wi-Fi network data. In an apparent show of its commitment to privacy, Google also said it will introduce a new option next week that will allow its users to encrypt searches on its Web site as an added protection against unauthorized snooping.…
Michael Liedtke:
The incident has prompted Google to abandon its effort to collect Wi-Fi network data. In an apparent show of its commitment to privacy, Google also said it will introduce a new option next week that will allow its users to encrypt searches on its Web site as an added protection against unauthorized snooping.
Good response to a potentially damaging issue. Still it should have never happened.
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Servers Slow the Net, Not Your Cable Speed
Tom Leighton as interviewed by the WSJ: The problem is that you’re going to be increasing the expectations of end users, and the data centers can’t keep up. People think about the “last mile” of broadband (the last link that extends broadband to users). But if there’s not an adequate server at the other end,…
Tom Leighton as interviewed by the WSJ:
The problem is that you’re going to be increasing the expectations of end users, and the data centers can’t keep up. People think about the “last mile” of broadband (the last link that extends broadband to users). But if there’s not an adequate server at the other end, you’re not getting those 100 megabits per second. The bottleneck is upstream.
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Email from Brian Lam to Steve Jobs
This is an email that Brian Lam editor for Gizmodo sent to Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs. My favorite bit is below. Brian Lam via Jason Snell: Something like that — from you or apple legal — is a big story, that would make up for giving the phone back right away. If the phone disappears…
This is an email that Brian Lam editor for Gizmodo sent to Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs. My favorite bit is below.
Brian Lam via Jason Snell:
Something like that — from you or apple legal — is a big story, that would make up for giving the phone back right away. If the phone disappears without a story to explain why it went away, and the proof it went to apple, it hurts our business. And our reputation. People will say this is a coordinated leak, etc.
Also trying to extort the Apple CEO via email for better access to the company hurts your reputation. This is the whiniest email, that is masked with ‘professionalism’. Also Gizmodo has lost any reputation that they had at this point, and is in its final weeks (in my opinion).
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More iPhone 4G Theft Documents
In these documents Apple claims that Gizmodo broke the phone when they took it apart. Also it details how the phone may have been lost/stolen. I still think stolen is the name of the game here.
In these documents Apple claims that Gizmodo broke the phone when they took it apart. Also it details how the phone may have been lost/stolen. I still think stolen is the name of the game here.
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It Was the Roommate that Busted the iPhone Guys
A lot of people wanted to know the course of events, the documents are now unsealed and it appears it was Brian Hogan’s roommate who called the cops. Kim Zetter for Wired.com: Martinson turned Hogan in, because Hogan had plugged the phone into her laptop in an attempt to get it working again after Apple…
A lot of people wanted to know the course of events, the documents are now unsealed and it appears it was Brian Hogan’s roommate who called the cops.
Kim Zetter for Wired.com:
Martinson turned Hogan in, because Hogan had plugged the phone into her laptop in an attempt to get it working again after Apple remotely disabled it. She was convinced that Apple would be able to trace her Internet IP address as a result. “Therefore she contacted Apple in order to absolve herself of criminal responsibility,” according to the detective who wrote the affidavit.
and:
The tip sent police racing to the home of 21-year-old Brian Hogan, and began a strange scavenger hunt for evidence that a friend of Hogan’s had scattered around this Silicon Valley community. Police recovered a desktop computer stashed inside a church, a thumb drive hidden in a bush alongside the road, and the iPhone’s serial-number stickers from the parking lot of a gas station.
Why hide this stuff unless you actually stole the phone?
Also note the following:
An Apple spokeswoman told Threat Level that Apple officials took Martinson’s tip directly to the district attorney’s office, and did not show up at Hogan’s house, as a Wired.com source claimed last month.
and:
Apple also told the police that the publication of Gizmodo’s story was “immensely damaging” to the company, because consumers would stop buying current generation iPhones in anticipation of the upcoming product. Asked the value of the phone, Apple told the police “it was invaluable.”
That last bit is the exact reason Gizmodo and everyone else involved in what I am now going to call a theft, is so very screwed.
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New York Times Paywall Goes Up January 2011
It is obvious that the New York Times did not read my post about saving the news industry. One thing that strikes me about this is that they may serve ads behind the paywall. It is one or the other, ads or pay wall you can thane both. Users expect no advertising if they have…
It is obvious that the New York Times did not read my post about saving the news industry. One thing that strikes me about this is that they may serve ads behind the paywall.
It is one or the other, ads or pay wall you can thane both. Users expect no advertising if they have to pay.
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Google To Shutter Sales of Nexus One Online
Carriers still have quite the stranglehold on everyone not named Apple.
Carriers still have quite the stranglehold on everyone not named Apple.
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Dell Makes a Device to Fit Between Your Smartphone and iPad
Priya Ganapati: The Sony PlayStation Portable-sized Streak isn’t directly an iPad competitor. The Streak has a 5-inch capacitive touchscreen, a 5-megapixel camera on the back, a separate front-facing camera that can be used for video conferencing, a standard 3.5mm headphone jack, Wi-Fi and 3G connectivity and a Qualcomm Snapdragon 1-GHz processor. Just right for the…
Priya Ganapati:
The Sony PlayStation Portable-sized Streak isn’t directly an iPad competitor. The Streak has a 5-inch capacitive touchscreen, a 5-megapixel camera on the back, a separate front-facing camera that can be used for video conferencing, a standard 3.5mm headphone jack, Wi-Fi and 3G connectivity and a Qualcomm Snapdragon 1-GHz processor.
Just right for the times when my iPhone is too small and my iPad is too big.
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Paying Homage to the Space Shuttle
Boston.com’s “Big Picture” tribute to the Space Shuttle. If you want to see how technologically advanced we are, just look at this amazing engineering.
Boston.com’s “Big Picture” tribute to the Space Shuttle. If you want to see how technologically advanced we are, just look at this amazing engineering.
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This is how Apple rolls
John Gruber: They achieve spectacular results one year at a time. Rather than expanding the scope of a new product, hoping to impress, they pare it back, leaving a solid foundation upon which to build. This is a must read.
John Gruber:
They achieve spectacular results one year at a time. Rather than expanding the scope of a new product, hoping to impress, they pare it back, leaving a solid foundation upon which to build.
This is a must read.
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Cellphone Users Don’t Use Their Minutes
Jenna Wortham for The New York Times: The one thing she doesn’t use her cellphone for? Making calls. “I probably only talk to someone verbally on it once a week,” said Mrs. Colburn, a 40-year-old marketing consultant in Canton, Mass., who has an iPhone. I use my phone for work and personal calls, rarely do…
Jenna Wortham for The New York Times:
The one thing she doesn’t use her cellphone for? Making calls.
“I probably only talk to someone verbally on it once a week,” said Mrs. Colburn, a 40-year-old marketing consultant in Canton, Mass., who has an iPhone.
I use my phone for work and personal calls, rarely do I get personal calls.
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iPhone to Work with Facebook Natively?
Dan Frommer: We also anticipate — but don’t know — that Apple may build some sort of Facebook messaging features into the iPhone. Perhaps you’ll be able to send Facebook messages to contacts just as easily as text messages. This wouldn’t cost any money — it wouldn’t use up your text message allotment — and…
Dan Frommer:
We also anticipate — but don’t know — that Apple may build some sort of Facebook messaging features into the iPhone. Perhaps you’ll be able to send Facebook messages to contacts just as easily as text messages. This wouldn’t cost any money — it wouldn’t use up your text message allotment — and could be just as instantaneous. But again, this part is pure speculation.
I could see Facebook and Apple integrating some contact syncing, much like they do with MobileMe. I however do not see these messaging features coming to the phone, though I may be made to look a fool shortly.
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Adobe, You Brought An Advertisement To A Gun Fight
MG Siegler (whom right now is probably one of the top 5 tech writers out there): You gave Jobs three years worth of solid data (massive iPhone sales) to prove he didn’t need you. And now he’s using that knowledge in the iPad, the device which may or may not be the first step in…
MG Siegler (whom right now is probably one of the top 5 tech writers out there):
You gave Jobs three years worth of solid data (massive iPhone sales) to prove he didn’t need you. And now he’s using that knowledge in the iPad, the device which may or may not be the first step in the future of computing. And now others are rallying to his side because he grabbed the position of power.