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Posted in Computing on October 2nd, 2013 No Comments »
Want to remove your account from many online services? Just Delete Me is a directory of direct links to delete your account from web services.
Posted in Computing on October 2nd, 2013 No Comments »
Want to remove your account from many online services? Just Delete Me is a directory of direct links to delete your account from web services.
Posted in Computing on September 26th, 2013 No Comments »
Lex tells you how to use different DNS servers for specific domains.
Posted in Computing on September 14th, 2013 No Comments »
Probably the best article on the hideous new Yahoo logo.
Posted in Computing on September 6th, 2013 No Comments »
I use 1Password (though I'll check out iCloud Keychain when Mavericks and iOS 7 ship), and they recommend… longer than they currently are, most likely.
Posted in Computing on September 4th, 2013 No Comments »
Why Steve Ballmer's Early Retirement Is My Own Greatest Failure. Yes, that's the actual title. My last in person meeting with Steve Ballmer was in 2002. I remember it more distinctly because I had just thrown my back out and was in extreme pain. However, I was also the Senior Fellow for Forrester, which had […]
Posted in Computing on September 3rd, 2013 No Comments »
Brand New: New Logo for YouTube Meh. I think it sucks. Update: Never mind. They're not changing it.
Posted in Computing on August 27th, 2013 No Comments »
One of the properties that π is conjectured to have is that it is normal, which is to say that its digits are all distributed evenly, with the implication that it is a disjunctive sequence, meaning that all possible finite sequences of digits will be present somewhere in it. If we consider π in base […]
Posted in Computing on August 25th, 2013 No Comments »
If you know a programming language, but don't know how to craft your own shell scripts, this resource from Apple is for you.
Posted in Computing on August 19th, 2013 1 Comment »
Siri takes initiative to learn how to pronounce names in iOS 7. Great. Big freakin' deal. Siri still can't spell the word "Erik" any way other than "Eric," on my phone or the phones of my friends, and there's no way to teach it to do so. If your name is Michele with one "l"? […]
Posted in Computing on August 14th, 2013 No Comments »
Ars writer Casey Johnston on Why I hate read receipts: The cases above are real, but it's safe to say that most messages are written to be responded to. Therefore, when someone doesn't respond to your message, it can be a blow to your ego. What was wrong with what you said? Too flip? Too […]
Posted in Computing on July 26th, 2013 No Comments »
How stupid are some companies? Seriously? The tweets look completely real, but SFGate discovered that while the Twitter users who are featured are real, their tweets are not. The users featured raving about TV commercials never said anything of the kind, and were unaware their profile pics and accounts were being presented in a post […]
Posted in Computing on July 22nd, 2013 No Comments »
TUAW has the story: But then a funny thing happened. Last week, Verizon reported its earnings results from Q2 2013 and the results were better than what most analysts were expecting. Last quarter, Verizon activated 7.5 million smartphones, of which 3.8 million units were iPhones. Put differently, nearly 51% of all smartphones Verizon activated last […]
Posted in Computing on July 21st, 2013 No Comments »
Like it's 1984 all over again! Samsung (as always), and even Google.
Posted in Computing on July 16th, 2013 No Comments »
Dropbox is bringing the Chooser, Saver, and the Datastore API to iOS and Android. Nice. And still ahead of iCloud. 😛
Posted in Computing on July 14th, 2013 No Comments »
There's a lot being said about the typography in iOS 7. For example… It's still in beta, so things can change.