April 2012
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March 2012
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February 2012
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Droid OS Poptart
Me: Apple just announced their new operating system, OS X Mountain Lion! Man, I SO want Mountain Lion!
Friend: That's stupid... I'm gonna' get a Droid OS Poptart.
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GPS For Smartphones Blows Away Standalone GPS...
Whenever I drive, I use my iPhone as my car’s GPS system. I have my iPhone chilling in an iPhone dock that’s installed onto the center of my dash where it gets power and the audio is connected via Bluetooth. I have Navigon running as the GPS app (decked out with all the extras) and Spotify running in the background for music. The GPS signal works so well and I can even have people use...
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WinZip Out For iOS Devices →
Now we can open zip files with WinZip on iPhones and iPad. *sniff* The iPhone’s growing up… JbB
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If You Gotta' Smartphone, Use It The Smart Way
Tonight I went to a comedy club. Me ‘n’ my girl had like an hour before the show started. So what did we do? In between talking to ourselves, we had our Glif propping up my iPhone 4 and we watched new TV episodes of shows we love on Hulu Plus, sharing earbuds. Really helped us enjoy the atmosphere and the time flew by. Other people around us were either extremely bored or were...
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Kodak's Gettin' Outta' The Camera Business →
‘Bout time. JbB
January 2012
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QuasiDisk Allows Tethering For The iPhone Without... →
Another tethering app’s slipped past Apple’s approval process. Get this quick as Apple typically takes these apps off the App Store within a few hours. It’s only $1.99.
This won’t work for Windows 7 apparently for the time being, it only works for OS X. But my advice is to buy it now so that if there’s a method to do this for Windows later, you’ll have the app....
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Tapping And Holding Keyboard On iPhones Can Do... →
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My iPhone 4's Mic Won't Switch To External Mode No...
This means that I can’t do speakerphone or record audio for videos or do my awesome Talking Carl. There’s something physically wrong inside my phone that’s causing the mic to stay on the “hold the phone up to your face to speak” mode. It ain’t software as I’ve done a complete reset of all data and the phone still does it. Didn’t happen from damage or...
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Petition Demands White House Investigate SOPA... →
Wow, wow, wow… Chris Dodd’s comments have backfired on him.
“Don’t ask me to write a check for you when you think your job is at risk and then don’t pay any attention to me when my job is at stake.”
He meant for his comments about the Obama administration to strike a cord into his reelection campaign, but ironically it’s the Obama...
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Encrypting Your Hard Drive No Longer Works Against... →
This is a major milestone in computer forensics. JbB
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“many SOPA opponents were confused and even shocked when they learned that the...”
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MPAA's Chris Dodd Shows How Corrupt Politicians... →
To anyone who believed politicians aren’t corrupted by lobbyists who buy them out, this… JbB
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SOPA Is Inevitable →
parislemon:
Marco Arment has this exactly right. We may have beaten these variations of SOPA and PIPA, but the sad fact of that matter is that they — or something like them — will eventually pass.
Obviously, all things being equal, such bills should never pass. But all things aren’t equal. As with most things, this is actually all about money. The MPAA and the other content lobbies are going...
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My iPhone 4's External Mic Is Messed Up
Damn, my iPhone 4 (the Neocell) developed a problem today. The external mic is muffled (damn near not working). Noticed it today when trying to use the speaker phone. Ugg. It ain’t from no damage or nothin’, just started outta’ the blue.
Gonna’ head down to the Apple Store to see what’s up, but apparently they’ll turn me away as their “genius bar”...
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On Kodak's Bankruptcy: Good Riddance
Good riddance…
But na, on a more serious note… good riddance.
I kid, I kid… In all seriousness… good riddance Kodak. Your had your moment in the sun for decades upon decades and you drove countless camera start-ups and competitors out of business with dirty tactics and your name brand alone and were hanging around long after your usefulness was clearly obsolete. Your latest patent attacks on...
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The RIAA Gets The Feds To Shutdown Megaupload →
Oh the irony. Right when it looks like our blackout movement has defeated, or at least crippled, the RIAA and MPAA’s SOPA and PIPA pet projects, the RIAA managed to get Megaupload shutdown!
Thank goodness for Anonymous yo, they did a denial of service attack on the RIAA causing their web site to be temporarily “shutdown”. Good job Anonymous. JbB
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Looks Like We May Have Defeated SOPA And PIPA →
The way the MPAA talks and acts, it sounds like it! JbB
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Supreme Court Says Congress May Re-Copyright... →
This is a completely separate issue from SOPA and PIPA. Just check this out… This ain’t right at all. JbB
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How Google Has Lost Control Of Android →
Pretty insightful post. Don’t agree with every facet, but the picture painted is pretty clear. What’s not clear is what will happen to Android once the “point of no return” has been reached. Instead of “Google has lost control”, I actually see it as “How Google is now stuck designing Android for life” type of thing. Even if… at some point,...
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“After Wikipedia Blackrout, somewhere, a student today is doing original research...”
– Jonathan Lamy - RIAA
I’ve hated the RIAA for years… Glad to see my hatred is still unbridled and pure. JbB
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Google says 4.5 million people signed anti-SOPA... →
Google clearly is doing this for self-serving purposes, which I’ve outlined before… but I gotta’ say I’m so proud of you Google right now. 4.5 million is a shit load… *whistles* Google, ya done good. …Ya done good. JbB
Confused About What SOPA And PIPA Are Legally? →
Read this fantastic breakdown that describes it all in plain speak. JbB
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SOPA and PIPA Cause Me Personal Headaches
Man… I’m in full support of the protest of SOPA and PIPA. In fact, right now AintAGeek.com is blacked out in protest of SOPA and PIPA, just like Reddit and Wikipedia are. But I’m having to write a paper for somethin’ and… low-and-behold, I needed to access Wikipedia for some research. But boom… Wikipedia’s blacked out still.
This is exactly what Wikipedia...
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Wikipedia and Reddit Preparing To Blackout
Starting to see notices on certain web sites, such as Wikipedia and Reddit, that they’ll be blacking themselves out in protest of SOPA. Good for them. There needs to be a lot more awareness of SOPA and PIPA and simply putting little announcements here and there won’t have as great of an effect as blacking out your web site (while explaining to visitors why it’s happening). JbB
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Consumer Innovation Trumps Business Innovation
What’s really funny here is the fact that these companies are wanting to adopt iPads (the article says “tablets”, but come on, it’s iPads) and are leading the change rather than their IT departments.
Small and mid-sized businesses planning tablet buying spree
This… this… is what I love about this new “consumer-based” technology revolution. Never...
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More Details Come Out About How Badly Apple's... →
Such a shame… but that is the fact of the global economy. Nearly everything’s made in China. Sad, but there’s a lot sadder things goin’ on in the world. JbB
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Members Of Congress Backpeddle A Bit On SOPA →
Go get’em Internet! Sic’em!!
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Android Developer Explains Fragmentation For... →
To me, development for Android seems to be a horrible mess. I can only feel what coders must have to go through making apps for so many different devices. And the same for users… “This app don’t work!” and someone else would say “Works fine in my device.”. Just one of the many reasons why I love iOS and having an iPhone. JbB
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I Don't Wanna' Give Fixes, I Wanna' Give Thoughts
AintAGeek.com used to use Wordpress as its CMS installed on a server of mine. But then I decided to make the move to Tumblr. Tumblr is a service that hosts everything on their own end, even if you use your own domain name. That’s cool, I respect that, but it means that nothing else can be used for that domain name besides email.
This sucks because it means I can’t create an...
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The Pirate Bay's Gonna' Use Magnet Links Only →
What’s interesting about this is that the entire web site, come in a month or so, will be small enough to backup to a flash drive. You know, for countries that happen to block access to The Pirate Bay, they’d be able to access the magnet links locally (it’s more complex than that, but you get the idea). Too cool. JbB
Content "Creep" →
What a good read about content and how companies view their audience. This has been a growing tend for online “content” companies to care more about metrics and less about content. I’m sick of news articles that read like “Apple does [insert thing] that may lead to [insert thing].”, and you click on it and it’s a short article and 20% talks about the actual...
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SmartTV's Should Be About More Than Just Running...
So with the coverage at CES (which I’m purposely trying to ignore), there’s talks of SmartTV’s and all this jazz. …Wait, what is a SmartTV? Well it’s pretty stupid, a SmartTV is any TV that can run apps. …That’s it.
Some of you might be thinking that’s a pretty amazing thing, compared to what TVs can do now. But it’s really not. For...
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Companies That Oppose SOPA Wouldn't Otherwise
I started thinking about SOPA and all the non-digital media companies that support SOPA…
http://theoriesofconspiracy.com/2011/11/list-of-major-companies-supporting-sopa.htm
Nike, Coach, Lucky Brand… I get it, I get it. You wanna’ stop oversea counterfeit web sites. That’s their reason. With 95% of those companies, their support isn’t based on ethics but necessity...
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Havin' Fun Creating A Design For The Site
I was worried when I saw Tumblr designs that designing for Tumblr was gonna’ be crappy… But I’m able to work in the design I had for the Wordpress-driven aintageek.com for this new Tumblr driven one. Hittin’ some brick walls here and there, but I’m adapting and pushing through.
One of the things I wanted to make sure was that the site loads correctly on both Google...
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Reddit To Blackout Itself On Jan 18th Because Of... →
Good for Reddit. Yet another reason why I respect them so much. SOPA is serious shit.
Intel Caught Faking Uktabook Video Game Demo →
Wow. That’s shameful. I hate when companies lie to their consumers.
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Moving From Wordpress To Tumblr
I’ve been way more active on Google+ than my own blog web sites over the past few months. The reason is because I get way more feedback with Google+ than I did using Wordpress. I’d get a lot of traffic and visits, but not much interaction via comments and damn near zero activity from Twitter, even though I had links to my Twitter account everywhere. It’s not to say people...