Archive for August, 2009
Snow Leopard: Initial Thoughts
I took the day off to travel to Albany, NY for the weekend. Our flight landed in Albany just before 9:30am and we made it to the Apple store a few minutes after 10. I picked up my copy of Snow Leopard and the whole experience was a little anti-climactic. I was in and out […]
Posted: August 28th, 2009 under tech.
Tags: 10.6, 64bit, apple, iphone, iTunes, Leopard, Office, OS X, Quicktime X, Screencast, Snow Leopard
Comments: 1
Jailbreaking My iPhone 3G
I’ve been contemplating the idea of jailbreaking my iPhone for months now. I always wanted to try it out and open myself up to new features that are not available to “well-behaved” customers. In case you aren’t familiar with jailbreaking, Wikipedia describes it as “a process that allows iPhone and iPod Touch users to run unofficial […]
Posted: August 21st, 2009 under tech.
Tags: console, Cydia, Dev-Team, Google Voice, HTC Sense, iphone, iPhone 3G, jailbreak, purplera1n, Qik, redsn0w, SSH
Comments: 2
Smart Tips To Protect Your Online Accounts
As you may remember, over a month ago a hacker was able to gain access to hundreds of confidential documents from Twitter. The incident was covered heavily on tech blogs, and TechCrunch wrote a very interesting post describing the “anatomy” of the Twitter attack. I found the post to be extremely insightful and I’m quite […]
Posted: August 13th, 2009 under tech.
Tags: email, Gmail, hacker, online accounts, password, security, twitter
Comments: 1
Facebook Buys FriendFeed; Twitter Floods with Spam
In case you missed the HUGE news today, Facebook has just acquired the very impressive social network FriendFeed. FriendFeed might not seem like a such a big deal, and maybe you’ve never even heard of it, but it packs lots of cool features and loads of innovation. It focuses on bringing together all of one’s […]
Posted: August 10th, 2009 under tech.
Tags: facebook, FriendFeed, social, spam, twitter
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