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Gmail Remote Sign In – Detecting Suspicious Activity
We use gmail for our mail over at Not That This, so this new feature looks great. I’m glad they are exposing this stuff From the gmail blog, “Your email account can contain a lot of personal information, from bank alerts to love letters. Email that, I’m sure, you don’t always want other people to [...]
Google Maps by Niemann
maps.google.com is the vocabulary for Niemann – some nifty stuff here: http://niemann.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/10/my-way/
2010 Winter Olympics on NBC – Fail
what a mess. NPR shares our frustration. And I quote, since I live in LA, “West-coast residents have been particularly incensed that they wait an additional three hours after the East coast gets whatever “live” coverage there actually is in prime time, even though they are in the time zone where the Olympics actually are. What [...]
iPhone SDK Alternatives
Besides xCode, here are couple alternate iPhone SDKs. At first glance/installation, Corona makes it dead simple to create flash like games/interactions. It uses a simple LUA scripting language. The Unity 3D for the iPhone is a subset of the larger Unity 3D engine but definitely worth a look if you are building a game or [...]
OS X Tip: Show Full Paths in Finder Windows
Type this in a terminal then restart the Finder. defaults write com.apple.finder _FXShowPosixPathInTitle -bool YES
Field – Experimental Code and Art
Love this: http://www.openendedgroup.com/field/ Field is a development environment for experimental code and digital art in the broadest of possible senses. While there are a great many development environments and digital art tools out there today, this one has been constructed with two key principles in mind: Embrace and extend — rather than make a personal, private and [...]
Web Dev Icons
Some useful stuff here: http://speckyboy.com/2009/12/21/the-top-50-web-development-icon-sets-from-2009/
to be nobody but your self
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._E._Cummings http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/156 http://www.english.illinois.edu/MAPS/poets/a_f/cummings/cummings.htm
Pandora and the Song Decoders
I love Pandora and its human based suggestion engine, the Genome Project. In this article, The New York Times explores Pandora and how it and others find your new favorite song. And it isn’t by collaborative filtering… “However things play out for Pandora as a business, its approach is worth understanding if you’re interested in [...]
ProtoDojo’s Nintendo Controller Secure USB Drive
My pal Joven, over at ProtoDojo has been at it again, this time creating a secure Nintendo USB drive. Now THAT is a USB drive. He writes about his motivation, “When cleaning out the garage a few weeks ago, I found my original Nintendo Entertainment System. Rather than sell it on ebay, I decided to [...]