about 2 weeks ago - No comments
Sometimes you just have to let things go. Especially if that thing is your iPhone that you dropped on the Subway tracks. Just let it go. Don’t jump onto the tracks to retrieve it like this guy from the Bronx. From CBS here: A man was killed by a subway train in the Bronx early…
about 4 months ago - No comments
There is a new type of smartphone under development in Taiwan. Its completely transparent. When powered on, liquid quartz energizes to produce displays, icons and other software components. To me, this seems like a useless invention. Just because the technology to do something is possible, doesn’t mean it will be embraced by the masses. I’ve…
about 6 months ago - 1 comment
Not entirely clear what happened here. Some non-English speaking woman tried to buy too many iPhones and then threw a tantrum at the mall that got her tazed. From WCVB here: A local family says a language barrier may have resulted in police using a Taser on a woman after she tried to buy too…
about 7 months ago - No comments
Phishing by TXT Message, a photo by BelchSpeak on Flickr. I got this phishing text email last night posing as a security alert from FedChoice Bank. A cursory google search for the phone number turns up a forum that reports fraudulent phone numbers. Some have reported calling the number and there is a recording asking…
about 8 months ago - No comments
I wrote last year about Italy trying to lynch six seismologists for failing to predict an earthquake that killed 300 people. Nevermind that it is impossible to predict an earthquake. Italy is volcanically and seismically active. Residents need to live in earthquake-reinforced buildings and prepare for disaster or move somewhere else to be safe. Those…
about 9 months ago - No comments
Those nerds who like the big laptops but don’t mind working with a cruddy file management interface with no blue-ray capability, no home key and no backspace? Yeah, those nerds.
about 9 months ago - No comments
This video has gone viral. And yep, I also have an iPhone and I do take several snaps of my food- but at least I have a blog about food so Nyah.
about 1 year ago - No comments
Okay, so you have a smart phone that rotates its screen depending on how you hold it. Nice, right? But I bet you don’t understand how the hell it does that. Especially from a chip that is only microns in size. Watch this and be smarter. Thank me.
about 2 years ago
Can anyone say… Testing and QA?