Watching Yahoo’s Transformation (by Jeremy Zawodny) Daring Fireball: Snow Leopard Adoption Rate – I’ve only upgraded 1 of 4 machines, don’t notice any benefits and the pain of getting things working again is a big deterrent. The Aliens Have Landed – The Fishbowl – whoa! Protect Insurance Companies PSA from FOD Team, Will Ferrell, Jon…
September, 2009
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inessential.com: Comments theory – really depends on the site. The Web at a New Crossroads | FactoryCity Mac OS X Snow Leopard font smoothing settings | Eric Cheng’s Journal Opera Mini 5 beta / journal / hicksdesign – ooh, shiny! linkiblog | How to Build a Popularity Algorithm You can be Proud of – wicked…
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After my several month dalliance with Sprint, T-Mobile and finally ditching AT&T for Verizon on my BlackBerry (my primary device), I am happy to report that I chose wisely. I have not (yet) had the dreaded “Call Failed (beep, beep, beep)”, or a single dropped call since making the switch.1 Also, the network performance for…
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The following is a cautionary tale – please learn from it. Last Friday was a fun day. In late morning a router upstream from our server went out, when it was restored all of our sites came back online except the server we used for the Crowd Favorite web site and email relay. The hard…
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YouTube – Senator Al Franken draws map of USA – impressive! YouTube – Novak Djokovic and John McEnroe having a hit – Great stuff. Obama’s Speach to Schoolchildren Ze Frank on Labor Day and Socialism – Video – TIME.com James Balog: Time-lapse proof of extreme ice loss | Video on TED.com Mice Levitated in Lab…
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The Crowd Favorite server (web site and email) are currently down. Email should be restored within a few hours, the web site will be back ASAP – no ETA yet. Happy Friday everyone!
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So far my Address Book sync via Dropbox solution is working well. The only issue I’ve seen so far is having to restart Mail.app to get names and addresses properly paired up from time to time. If you see a weird name/email address combination in Mail.app, a quit and restart of Mail.app should fix it.
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I wrote the following draft blog post in December 2008: I’m closer than ever to never having to plug in my BlackBerry to a computer to sync it. The exception is still contacts, which I can get away with syncing once a week or so. My calendars are synced with Google Calendar. This is handled…
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The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs: Google’s “opt out” program – heh. Online justice with PageRank: befitting the crime? My Personal Golf Trainer Coming to Nintendo Wii – Sign me up… stevenf.com – I spend a lot of time blogging about things I… The Apple upgrade problem From the Mouths of Developers – Interesting notes…
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The interwebs are abuzz with concerns about WordPress security this weekend. If you use WordPress, you should always make sure you are running to the latest version. Because of these concerns, the WordPress HelpCenter is open for special weekend hours (9am-5pm Central), and will be as responsive as possible to voice mail and email (help@wphelpcenter.com)…
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After my final test run last weekend I decided to keep my BlackBerry Bold with AT&T. That lasted until Tuesday morning when I was on a conference call and the call dropped. Again. I was all set to port my number to Sprint. Their network isn’t quite as good as Verizon’s, but it generally works…
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I upgraded my work machine to Snow Leopard. I had to jump through some minor hoops to get my dev environment back up and running again, and I’m also finding myself missing two utilities that haven’t been updated yet: iStat Menus and MailTemplate. I was thrilled that updates for MsgFiler, SuperDuper, Pukka and PathFinder were…