about 1 week ago - No comments
Files can easily be recovered from old phones and PDAs, including smartphones. Don’t dispose of one unless you are certain the data cannot be recovered. Otherwise, don’t complain if someone steals your deleted data or outs you as gay on facebook. Here is a post on how to wipe data from an iPhone/iPad. From the…
about 2 months ago - No comments
While I was troubleshooting my own Ubuntu installation, I came across this awesome video showing an Android phone that runs Ubuntu and is dockable to a larger screen to enable traditional input devices. Looks fantastic! Truly a desktop to mobility solution. Like This Post? Rate it and tell your friends! Click the Share button below.
about 4 months ago - No comments
The video below has been around for a while, but I only just became aware of it, its strangeness and its wonderful new euphemism for death: Riding the Rainbow Road. Thus, Steve Jobs is riding the rainbow road, as is Kim Jong Il and Patrice O’Neal. Thanks to [GAS]! Like This Post? Rate it and…
about 7 months ago - 1 comment
Sad news about Steve Jobs. I wrote last month that his iPhone battery was permanently disconnected from his USB drive. One of those things about twitter is that news travels faster there than on normal news media. I was the first to know about it among my friends, but only because I have the social…
about 7 months ago - No comments
All cellphones now sold in the city limits of San Francisco have to have a label on them specifying the amount of radiation the thing gives off. How people are supposed to figure out this score is beyond anyone’s guess. From NBC here: San Francisco controversial new law requiring cell phone retailers in the City…
about 9 months ago - No comments
Back in 2008, I posted a piece over at [GAS] about how the government, in times of crisis or threat, could dampen cell phones to prevent communication between adversaries as they coordinate an attack. Now, in the wake of the use of social media via cellphones used to burn London and coordinate protests in the…
about 11 months ago - No comments
And I bet he didn’t even get the one with the 3G built in. And he also managed to get a laptop out of the deal, but who needs two kidneys anyways? Not this guy. From the GlobalTimes here: A teenager in Huaishan, Anhui Province has sold one of his kidneys to buy an iPad2…
about 1 year ago - No comments
Al Gore sits on Apple’s board of Directors. GreenPeace then listed Apple as the least Green because it used too much coal, which, by the way, is the ultimate in recycling, but the report is out there. Even whackadoodle whale loving idiots hate Al Gore nowadays. And that hatred is spreading like wildfire in Pop…
about 1 year ago - No comments
My pal and I had a brief and uncomfortable discussion in front of our wives about how stupid most single women still are in the 21st century. We both agreed that single women are still dumb. Most single chicks are largely incapable of making good decisions on their own. Given equality they don’t seem to…