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Blackberry Thunder vs. iPhone application momentum

July 29th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

Well, Blackberry is finally responding to the iPhone with a touchscreen device that will be CDMA and use Rhapsody. Looks like a nice device, but we’ll have to see about how well it works. By that time though, the iPhone application race could be over. Pandora alone reported they added 350K users in a week, [...]

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Wikka Wiki File Upload Size Limit

June 2nd, 2008 · 2 Comments · Wikka Wiki

It isn’t well documented. In fact, it isn’t documented at all, but the http://wikkawiki.org/FilesAction method allows you to put {{files}} into any Wikki page and then a registered user can upload things. It has a hidden parameter for 2MB files and limits the files which sounds smart…
$max_upload_size = “21048576”;
$allowed_extensions = ‘gif|jpeg|jpg|jpe|doc|xls|...’;
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Apple ships 802.11n Airport Express and 1Gb Ethernet notebooks

March 16th, 2008 · No Comments · Airport Express, MacBook Pro, Macbook

Macrumors.com says the $99 Airport Express is going to get 802.11n networking. This is a very nice piece of hardware that complements the Time Capsule mainly. You can use it to add a printer to your network (in essence, it converts a USB printer into a network printer), you can use it as an [...]

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