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How to Opt Out of Twitter Spam
March 29th, 2009
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I joined Twitter a little over a year ago and have been learning how to be a good twitizen ever since. I would follow people that were interesting or who were talking about topics that interested me. When I first joined, it seemed to be populated mainly with real people but as time passed I started seeing twitter accounts that were automated. I would follow someone and within seconds or minutes I received a direct message thanking me for following them. I know that Twitter has an API but I couldn’t imagine that everyone I was receiving the direct messages from knew how to do that.
TCP3 Tiny URL Google AppEngine Experiment
September 11th, 2008
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Any application that needs to scale needs to designed to do so from the beginning. Or at least that’s what I used to think. Even when Amazon introduced EC2 and S3 there were still design requirements that you needed to consider. In fact, I actually started this project with S3 as the back-end. The idea was to store the URLs on S3 which had very quick response times and use quick scalable hosting (I hadn’t decided which hosting service at that time) with round-robin DNS to scale the front-end. It was a simple architecture but it would have worked. But…before I was able to go very far with the project, Google launched AppEngine. AppEngine took an entirely different approach to scalability. Use their SDK and platform and don’t even bother with scalability. So, I decided to switch over and give it a try.
This project is the ongoing development effort based on that decision. I will describe and write about design decisions, feature plans and problems and roadblocks caused by the AppEngine platform.
Oh, and feel free to comment. I will approve any and all constructive comments both postitive and negative.
Categories: Editorial
Top 10 Most Useful Free Apps for iPod Touch
August 30th, 2008
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With the new 2.0 firmware and the new App Store on iTunes you can get most of the functionality that you need without jailbreaking.
The following list are the apps that I use daily and can’t live without. As an added benefit, all of these are also free apps available from the iTunes Music Store.
Privacy Series: The Right and the Expectation of Privacy on the Internet
August 14th, 2008
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Do you have a right to online privacy? Do you actually have online privacy? Most people who use the Internet have no idea of how little privacy they actually have. The searches you perform are not private. These are saved by the major search engines. The sites you visit are not private. Your visits are recorded in the site’s log files. The ad companies use cookies to track your interests by keeping records of your surfing habits. No privacy there. So do you actually have privacy on the Internet? If you are like most people, the statements I just made will scare you or simply piss you off.
iTouch Emergency Medical Procedures Manual
June 2nd, 2008
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The following text describes how to restore a non-responsive iTouch after a failed jailbreak attempt.
Symptoms of diseased iTouch:
- History of failed attempts at jailbreaking
- Non-responsive to touch
- Displays pages of scrolling white text before hanging
- Only displays black screen
- Permanently displays restore icon
If your iTouch is presenting with any of the preceding symptoms or other similar signs, proceed with the following proceeds until the patient responds to treatment.
Categories: Software, Technology hack itouch, iTouch, itouch apps, itouch hacks, iTunes, jailbreak, jailbreak itouch
Twitter Killer or just another Social Networking Toy?
June 1st, 2008
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Jailbreaking 1.1.4 iTouch on Windows in 1 Simple Step!
April 15th, 2008
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Ok. It simply doesn’t get any easier than this. I’ve gone through all the backflips (you can read about them on my blog) and have downgraded, upgraded, sidegraded and jailbroken iTouches in just about every way possible on Windows. I’ve read about the ZiPhone jailbreak and have periodically checked the status of that but on previous visits, it looked like it was a work in progress for Windows anyway. So, I tried it tonight…and it worked so quickly I wasn’t even sure it was jailbroken, but sure enough, the Installer icon is on my home page ready for me to add any apps that I might want. So here’s what you need to do…
Hulu Embed Wordpress Plugin
March 15th, 2008
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This plugin simplifies the effort involved in embedding videos for TV shows and movies from Hulu.com into your wordpress blog.
Theme Gallery for Jailbroken iTouch
March 2nd, 2008
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The following images are some of the cooler themes that are available for a 1.1.3 jailbroken iTouch running Summerboard.
Enjoy!
Categories: Editorial Apple, hack itouch, iPhone, iTouch, itouch apps, itouch hacks, iTunes, jailbreak itouch
Breaking out of Jail Again: Simple iTouch Jailbreak to 1.1.3 on Windows
March 2nd, 2008
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Yes. I know 1.1.4 is available. I’m working on it…but i’ve spent quite a bit of time experimenting with the different techniques for a smooth 1.1.3 jailbreak on Windows and this seems to be the best by far. This article explains the easiest step i’ve found yet for jailbreaking your 1.1.3 iTouch. Read more…
Categories: Software, Technology Apple, hack itouch, iPhone, iTouch, itouch apps, itouch hacks, iTunes, jailbreak itouch