From the monthly archives:

June 2007

Who broke Facebook?

June 29, 2007

Looks like Face­book hasn’t figured out yet how to main­tain their site without impact­ing the users. Must be a serious fix…

Tech­nor­ati Tags: Face­book, Social Media, Down, Broken, Main­ten­ance, Borked

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NOT an iPhone simulator

June 23, 2007

An enter­pris­ing com­pany has developed a handy little applic­a­tion that will aid web­site developers when cre­at­ing sites for Apple’s upcom­ing iPhone.
But, to be clear, this is not an iPhone sim­u­lator:
iPhoney is not an iPhone sim­u­lator but instead is designed for web developers who want to cre­ate 320 by 480 (or 480 by 320) web­sites for […]

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Kinda offline. ‘Vacation’ and kitchen demolition

June 22, 2007

I was hop­ing I’d have more time to post reg­u­larly dur­ing my vaca­tion, but sadly, that’s not prov­ing to be the case.
We’re in the midst of kit­chen demoli­tion for this and next week, in pre­par­a­tion for a new one to be installed in July.
It is inter­est­ing, as we are kinda camp­ing. All our food is in containers, […]

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Why get an iPhone when your Windows Mobile can be just as swank?

June 15, 2007

Life­hacker has this cool art­icle show­ing you how to pimp your Win Mobile to be all iPhoney.
…you can cus­tom­ize your Win­dows Mobile phone to emu­late sev­eral of the iPhone’s more inter­est­ing fea­tures, like the iPhone’s home screen, flick-scroll con­tacts, and the fancy slide-to-unlock.

You’ll need an applic­a­tion — avail­able here, and some free time to follow […]

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Is this what the web is coming to?

June 14, 2007

This is an abso­lutely amaz­ing demo of Pho­to­synth. Now this is the way inform­a­tion was meant to be presen­ted. Run, don’t walk to the Pho­to­synth web­site and install the Fire­fox plu­gin. Then write off the rest of your day.
It’s a truly amaz­ing way to view photo col­lec­tions and inform­a­tion. Worth invest­ing some time explor­ing. Then browse […]

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5 reasons I won’t get an iPhone

June 12, 2007

Cost. If the iPhone’s lis­ted prices were con­ver­ted to Cana­dian dol­lars, the iPhone would price out between $530 and $640 CAD. That’s way too much money for me to spend on a phone today. Yes it has other func­tion­al­ity, but I’ve got that covered; keep read­ing.
Con­tract & add ons. In the US there’s a 2 […]

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