Posted by Zacharias - March 25th, 2010 Comments Off
Isn’t anyone going to start up a class action suit against AT&T and Apple? Both companies promised iPhone tethering support, spurring greatly increased sales of the iPhone 3Gs, only to yank the promise of tethering in the U.S. even though AT&T offers tethering with other devices. Promises for the past year have been broken, leaving [...]
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Posted by Zacharias - March 25th, 2010 Comments Off
Is it just me or do you get frustrated when online posts (such as this one) don’t provide a publishing date? It’s really annoying. Come on folks, take a tip from the press: Always provide a publishing date and author (unless your entire blog is just you, then an author’s probably not necessary).
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Posted by Zacharias - March 24th, 2010 Comments Off
An absolutely sublime post from the Tao of Mac on everything from crazy iPad hype to an in-depth stream of consciousness on the escalating war against Flash and what HTML5 means. Beautiful site redesign too, although I suspect Rui actually did it quite a while ago and I’m just getting around to noticing now. Just [...]
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Posted by Zacharias - March 16th, 2010 Comments Off
TUAW published a great article on GDC 2010: Ngmoco’s Neil Young on how freemium will change the App Store world. If you’re interested in the evolution of Apple’s “App Store” and, in a wider sense, the marketing that’s driving one of it’s largest publishers check out the article. It’s an interesting accounting of how mobile [...]
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Posted by Zacharias - March 16th, 2010 Comments Off
If you don’t want to shell out the $10 per month fee for the AT&T iPhone Navigator application, I can’t blame you. That’s a lot to pay for directions, especially when you can pick up a Garmin for under $100. There is an alternative, though: A new version of CoPilot Live enhances and fixes a [...]
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Posted by Zacharias - March 15th, 2010 Comments Off
“We used to hustle on over the border for health care… And I think, isn’t that kind of ironic now?” — Sarah Palin, former governor of Alaska, admitting that her family used to go to Canada for medical treatment when she was a child; Canada has a single payer system, which Palin opposes. (Time, March [...]
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Posted by Zacharias - March 5th, 2010 Comments Off
I finally managed to get the Hyrax International LLC web site up and running — it’s really amazing what you can do with WordPress and a few plugins. Not at all like “back in the day” when we hand-coded this stuff in Perl and HTML1.0. I still need to look into the “right” e-commerce solution, [...]
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