I’ve just solved a rather curious problem with my iPhone 3G S and since previous posts on this site with troubleshooting information have gotten some hits and seem to be of periodic use to people, I though I’d post my solution for posterity. I used this method on an iPhone 3G S, but I’m confident … [Read more…]
Big news today for free speech on the internet! Google has announced that they will no longer censor search results on google.cn. Here’s Google’s official announcement on their blog, and a NY Times story covering it. While Google is not the most popular search engine in China, it certainly is the leader among American providers. … [Read more…]
I’d like to share my internet connection over WiFi, but there are a couple reasons I don’t. I don’t want it to impact the bandwidth I have when I’m using my connection. I don’t want them to use it in such a way that it triggers my ISP to throttle my connection. I don’t want … [Read more…]
I’m running the Windows 7 Release Candidate, and pulled down Apple’s new iTunes 9, which debuted on last Wednesday. I noticed a little added feature: It seems iTunes 9 takes advantage of the Windows 7 taskbar enhancements and adds a back, play/pause, and forward button below the live preview. It also adds a balloon above … [Read more…]
In terms of our interaction, email used to be essentially snail mail that you could send and receive instantly. But our interaction with email has moved far beyond this simple analogue of open mailbox, get messages. The postman comes to my house once a day; whatever letters come, that’s all there is until tomorrow. The … [Read more…]
Jeff Atwood, over at Coding Horror posed an interesting little puzzle about probability: Let’s say, hypothetically speaking, you met someone who told you they had two children, and one of them is a girl. What are the odds that person has a boy and a girl? To put it in more precise language so we … [Read more…]
The WordPress web-interface for writing blog posts is OK, but I do miss some of my favorite word-processing features. The blog-posting facility in Word 2007 didn’t impress me, but I’m on a Microsoft kick this week while trying Windows 7, so I thought I’d take Windows Live Writer for a spin. Although it presents you … [Read more…]
Downloading the Windows 7 Beta was a little more difficult than it should have been, but I was admittedly jumping the gun a little bit. The public beta was briefly posted, only to be withdrawn because the servers couldn’t keep up with demand. (It’s now back up.) Being the impatient man that I am, I … [Read more…]
So, I’ve decided to use my Saturday to geek-out and try some new computer stuff. While Microsoft is making a somewhat lackluster presentation at CES compared to the likes of Sony, Palm, and Dell which have announced slick-looking gadgets, in terms of things to try right now, two Microsoft betas have caught my attention. The … [Read more…]
The “most emailed” story in the NY Times today is about the prices and costs of sending text messages from a mobile phone. Mobile phone companies charge an arm and a leg for these–in terms of markup on costs it has to be the single most lucrative service they offer. US carriers charge 20 cents … [Read more…]