On Wednesday the 8th of July at precisely 12:34:56 all the numbers will be lined up in ascending order — a rare happening! So enjoy the moment on 12:34:56 7/8/9!
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Just a few months ago we took our Spring Break with the Everitts — a wonderful holiday with old friends. Gisela bravely battled cancer for about three years and although it took a heavy toll on her body, it seemed not to dampen her spirits nor warp her outlook on life. She was so very special to us, so refreshingly genuine, uncomplicated, eternally cheerful, chatty with everyone — even strangers — and generous to a fault. Pictured here, after a buffet Chinese lunch she treated us all to, Gisela shed her mortal coil today at 4am. Yes, that’s me behind the camera, as usual, not in the photo. Gisela’s sister Hannali suffered a similar fate recently. Read More »
We waited on Apple to enable and allow turn-by-turn GPS. Admittedly without a compass in the 3G iPhone it means that you have to be walking briskly before the software can determine the direction you were facing. That’s why the 3GS with compass now makes turn-by-turn a reality but still possible on the older 3G.
Voice guided GPS navigation on the iPhone is now a reality. Excepting, it’ll cost you $9.99 a month and it’s brought to you by AT&T. Wow, $120 per year! Who else thinks this deal stinks? It’s called AT&T Navigator, the app itself is free, the service is not. If Apple doesn’t allow other turn-by-turn apps on their App Store I think we’ll have seen how monopolies can leverage their dominant positions to force you into buying more of their software and services to the exclusion of healthy competition.
The Central Park Conservancy have provided a uniquely hip/geek way to tour Central Park: You can dial the numbers, 646-862-0997, and punch in the numbers corresponding to a park feature (see appended list) from anywhere. The numbers are also posted in the park. Read More »
“This unusual restaurant started life as an ad campaign for Yellow, a New Zealand company similar to the Yellow Pages. The idea was to build a restaurant in a tree using only resources listed in the company’s directories. Ad campaign aside, the result is breathtaking: a graceful pod that glows about 30 feet above the ground.” by Lucy Gauntlett
From the Offbeat Traveler: Yellow Treehouse restaurant in New Zealand at latimes.com
Jon Lech Johansen, famous for having reverse engineered the CSS DVD-copy protection scheme, makes headlines again with DoubleTwist, an application which which removes DRM from iTunes so you can play your music on any device — not just those approved by Apple: “With doubleTwist, it’s a breeze to put your media on your devices and share it with your friends. Grab it for free, or learn more on the website. It’s time to play!” Download doubleTwist here.
Whether you intended added or deleted attendees to be notified, which button would you press for either of the alternatives given?
Usability = Productivity!
Turn your iPhone into a web server using ServersMan’s CyberDuck application. Uses 3G or WiFi.
Caption: CyberDuck here seen serving over a WiFi connection.
Why would you want to set your iPhone up as a web server? Good question. I’ll try to address that in my conclusion. It would seem more useful to be able to edit and administer a web server remotely with your iPhone: The server remains up when you use your iPhone for other tasks. When the iPhone is the web server you’ll need another computer to edit the files on it and you lose the iPhone’s primary functions as a smart phone. But I’ll show you how to do it anyway. Read More »
From Thierry Legault’s amazing website www.astrosurf.com come these amazing images of Atlantis approaching the Hubble telescope — as they both pass in front of the sun. Read More »
Along comes a video that explains it better …
A colleague at work today told me her son had noticed that Apple’s iTunes Terms of Service prohibits the use of iTunes to make a nuclear bomb …
”APPLE INC. SOFTWARE LICENSE AGREEMENT FOR iTUNES” Read More »
It must be another slow week for the media: With nothing better to hype up they’re focused on swine flu. In the absence of enough facts to fill a 24 hour news day they’ve got every possible talking head offering an opinion. Where there are cameras and reporters there are also aspiring politicians that want to appear engaged. Follow that with avoiding pork products, banning pork imports from infected areas and then wholesale slaughter of pigs in muslim countries: Before you know it we have a pandemic of panic.
If only we could vaccinate ourselves from the viral spread of speculative opinion before it spreads throughout the global village.
I loaded up my iPhone with the free Urbanspoon application some months back and since then I’ve discovered several good restaurants where I live, work and play. It uses the phone’s GPS to be location aware. The key is to find like minded foodie friends so I’m inviting you to follow me on Urbanspoon by linking here. An account is free if you haven’t signed up yet — and there is no kickback or financial incentive for me to promote Urbanspoon to you. Read More »
Caption: My pick for the under $200K category is the Morgan Aero SuperSports!
You’ll find this photographic gem in National Geographic’s Daily Dozen for the 1st week in April, 2009 …
Photo and captions by James Snyder: April 2, 2009. This is a Cuban tree frog on a tree in my backyard in southern Florida. How and why he ate this light is a mystery. It should be noted that at the time I was taking this photo, I thought this frog was dead having cooked himself from the inside. I’m happy to say I was wrong. After a few shots he adjusted his position. So after I was finished shooting him, I pulled the light out of his mouth and he was fine. Actually, I might be crazy but I don’t think he was very happy when I took his light away.
I’m guessing the frog instinctively thought this was a fire fly!
