The apps on an iPhone use Fairplay DRM which allow five machines to be authorized. So here is how to get two iPhones in your family works. Hat tip to TUAW for this note from allforces
It is complicated, but basically what you do is to have two computers and authorize both for a single iTunes [...]
Making Apps work across multiple iPhones
July 25th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek
Tags: Apps·Drm·Hat Tip·iPhone·Iphones·Itunes·Two Computers
Wordpress for iphone rocks
July 22nd, 2008 · No Comments · Blogs
There is paradise on earth. In this case wordpress has a blogging client for iPhone. I can blog anywhere now
Just hope it doesn’t crash as much as twinkle does!
Hat tip to john Ludwig for this one.
Tags: Blog·Crash·Hat Tip·iPhone·John Ludwig·Paradise On Earth·Rocks·Twinkle
MacBook Air SuperDrive jammed and will not eject so shake it!
July 1st, 2008 · No Comments · Geek
Hat tip to TUAW apparently, Tnkgrl has figured out how to open up a Superdrive, replace a part and thus make it universally compatible with all computers. Great geekout. OTOH, why go to all the trouble :-)? The photos are really useful so you can disassemble it. The short version is the black bottom comes [...]
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Clickz on Ad Placements
June 24th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek
Hat tip to Bill on this one, a good source of overview information that shows the size of the internet advertising business. Clickz which is mainly from Neilson Online (really Netratings). Some tidbits:
- Web Media (what ever that is?) is largest at 74B impressions per month
- Financial services is the largest segment I understand at [...]
Tags: 5b·Amazon·Cheap Long Distance·Clickz·Consumer Goods·Ebay·Financial Services·Google·Google Yahoo·Hat Tip·Impressions·Interactive Corp·Internet Advertising·Internet Business·Microsoft·Mortgage Refinancing·Natru Vent·Neilson·Nextag·Placements·Priceline·Prom Dresses·Refinancing A Mortgage·Refrigeration Tools·Retail Goods·Segment·Share Growth·South Beach Diet·Target Corp·Telecommunications·Web Media·Wu Yi·Wu Yi Source·Yahoo
Where is Matt?
June 23rd, 2008 · 2 Comments · Geek
Kind of amazing, this guy travelled around the world twice doing the same dance in different places (hat tip to the fake Steve Ballmer) for this rocking good video. I mainly love the soundtrack. What a great job and what a great adventure. 14 months of travel, 42 countries at Where the Hell is Matt? [...]
Tags: Blogspot·Countries·Different Places·Great Adventure·Hat Tip·Hell·Imagination·Job·Steve Ballmer·Stride Gum·Where The Hell Is Matt·Wherethehellismatt
Nintendo Emulators
June 20th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek
FireNES integrates into Firefox and let’s you play over 2,000 old NES games in Firefox.
Or do it in any web browser via vNES through Java. Hat tip to Ludwig
Tags: Firefox·Hat Tip·Lifehacker·Ludwig·Nes Games·Nintendo Emulators·Web Browser
Blackberry Bold 9000
June 18th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek
Tags: 3g·Battery Life·Blackberry Curve·Crackberry·Drawback·GPS·Hat Tip·Images·Initial Reports·Intel·Intel Xscale·iPhone·Keyboard·Lint·Mac News·Mail Application·Microsd·Momentum·Smartphone·Web Browsing
Perceptual Experiment and priming
June 11th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek
Hat tip to Peter for this one, watch the video and count the balls…See what happens at Transformationteam.net
Tags: Balls·Hat Tip·Net Video·Priming·Tc
Mybus.com
June 11th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek
Hat tip to Abel for this one, as I ride the bus more, here is a great way to see where the buses are in real time:
Mybus is the top level page. Plug in a route number, get a list of all major stops for the route, then select your stop. I’ve bookmarked the following [...]
Tags: Abel·Avl·Buses·Hat Tip·Jsp·Metrokc·Mybus·Real Time·Route Number·Seattle·Sms·Text Messages
Quotes
May 22nd, 2008 · No Comments · Geek
Hat tip to Matt for this quote! I’ve been collecting bunches and now with Mac OS X Mail, you’ll get them rotated:
Benjamin Franklin Quotes
Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
Benjamin FranklinQuoteGallery.com
Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.
Sun Tzu – [...]
Tags: Beer·Benjamin Franklin·Bunches·Enemies·God·Hat Tip·Living Proof·Mac OS X·Mac Os X Mail·Os X·Quotes·Sun Tzu·Wikiquote