I love the wink-driven self-timer. Yes, I set up the camera, walk into the scene, and then wink—the picture is taken two seconds later. Beats hunting around for a remote control. (Or I can ask you to wait two seconds after a new person—that would be me, joining the group—enters the frame.)
Ingenious.
I’m going to show them a world you don’t want them to see.
A world… without you Flash.
evercookie - virtually irrevocable persistent cookies
Think you can get rid of this cookie?
I’m glad this proof-of-concept demonstration exists, because advertisers are probably already using these methods.
[T]he responses we get tend to indicate a good many people are determined to believe whatever they want to believe, and no collection of contradictory factual information, no matter how large or authoritative or impressive it might be, is ever going to dissuade them from their beliefs.
As of today, we’ll be out of IPv4 addresses in 272 days.
from Hurricane Electric
Virgin Mobile’s $40 unlimited MiFi - David Pogue
Been using this for a few months now, and love it. This + iPod Touch + cheap prepaid phone = no need for AT&T ever.
Also: Internet radio in the car. Awesome. (I recommend TuneIn Radio. Go to settings, set buffering to 30 seconds - with this I can listen to 128kbps streams with hardly any drop-outs.)
Pogue also has a follow-up.
Twitter … seriously botched its OAuth implementation and demonstrated, yet again, that it lacks the engineering competence that is needed to reliably operate its service.
Terminal command:
defaults write com.apple.iTunes full-window -1
via Siracusa
Retargeting Ads Follow Surfers to Other Sites
Next time you see one of these, think about what your privacy is worth to the company featured in the advertisement, compared to the opportunity for them to make a buck.
We should show all Muslims how intolerant and hate-filled we are, as that’ll surely reduce the number of them that become extremists.