January 2012
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December 2011
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HBR's Top Blog Posts for 2011 →
Great stuff at the Harvard Business Review blog, as usual. For bonus points, don’t forget to subscribe to their amazing IdeaCast podcast.
October 2011
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Playing with iOS5, Lion and iCloud
Upgraded both my iPhone and my iPad2 to iOS5 yesterday, and my MacBook Pro to Lion. Aside from the infuriating reverse-direction scrolling in Lion (push up to go down and vice-versa — I’m too hardwired), I have to admit that I like the whole experience. I’m assuming that I’ll have to await more iOS apps’ use of the notification system —the only thing appearing...
A bite of the Apple
So, we didn’t get the big iPhone 5 release for which the whole world seemed to be holding its breath. The iPhone 4S is more of the same, just with a bunch of improvements. I have to pity the Tim Cook in a way. Steve Jobs is a tough act to follow, and he didn’t really have the big oomph in his pocket to haul out and impress everybody. Despite the emphasis on things like the dual...
Firebird X: a computerized guitar →
Okay, this has officially intrigued the computer geek and the (earnest but terrible) guitar player in me. Wonder if I can root the thing? Though at that price, I’d just be tempted to pick up a high end classic analog guitar. Or three.
September 2011
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TechCrunch: How to enable Facebook Timeline →
Did this last night. It seems I’m in the 20% that like it, but I don’t tend to embarrassing posts.
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New and improved Google+... now with less...
Now that we’re getting the great washed masses joining (that is, the non-nerdic) I’m curious how the Google+ dynamic is going to change. Last I heard before the opening-up, G+ was 80% male. Perhaps now it’ll smell less like an all-night D&D session. (Apologies to any females reading this that have played D&D, but if you were blackmailed into playing by a boyfriend or...
July 2011
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[How to] Add a Google+ Quicklist to the Unity... →
The Commodore 64 is back – and it’s running Ubuntu... →
Any old-timers like me looking for some (old-timer) geek cred?
"Optimized For Honeycomb" Apps List →
May 2011
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March 2011
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February 2011
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Chris Brogan: An Insider’s Guide to Social Media... →
“I receive a lot of questions about various points of etiquette with regards to social media. I also observe instances where I wish people knew some of the more common etiquette, because they seem like wonderful people, who maybe have made a mistake because they didn’t know better. To that end, I thought I’d give a brief set of ideas around social media etiquette. You’re very welcome to add...
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Old Spice voicemail generator →
Why, yes, I am on a horse. Thanks for calling.
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January 2011
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“There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what...”
– Peter Drucker
September 2010
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Samsung Galaxy Tab preview -- Engadget →
Forget the iPad. I want this. And apparently it’s coming to Canada before Christmas. (Santa, are you listening?)
August 2010
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universal androot →
One-click rooting for Android
Lifehacker Pack for Android: Our List of the Best... →
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“So listen to this fleeting world:
A star at dawn, a bubble in a stream,
A...”
– The Diamond Sutra
Nexus One by Google Cell Phone Accessories →
June 2010
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[Guide] The 100% Fool Proof Guide: STOCK N1 to... →
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BeyondPod an amazing podcast app →
One thing that I’ve loved about using Android is that I rarely need to sync with a computer any more. Most of my personal data is synced with Google or resides in secure bits of The Cloud. One of the missing pieces was a really good podcast app, and now I’ve found one in BeyondPod. It worked fine on my Samsung Galaxy with Android 1.5, and is snappy as all heck on the Nexus One with...
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May 2010
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Machinarium →
Facebook’s Gone Rogue; It’s Time for an Open... →
Nexus One… Close, But No Calendar! | Linux... →
The Humble Indie Bundle (pay what you want for... →
The Best Android Twitter App is… [Droid vs Droid]... →
Android SDK on Ubuntu | Niall's Weblog →
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Niall O'Higgins' excellent primer on setting up... →
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Samsung Galaxy quirky but not terrible
Well, it appears that most of my problems with the Galaxy were actually related to one major issue: the geo-location services. I was indoors with the geo-location setting on in the preferences, and apparently it was trying rather unsuccessfully to get a lock. It tried constantly to get a fix (both satellite and via wireless) and it was driving the CPU through the roof and the battery life through...
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Dipping into Android with the Samsung Galaxy
Not that long ago I graduated from the Blackberry Storm to the JesusPhone, the iPhone 3GS. But I must admit that Apple is turning into a Leviathan worse that Microsoft or IBM, using the dangling carrot of elite uber-cool products as a way of distracting us from what’s going on behind the scenes: suing guys trying to get an iPhone to work with Linux clean-room (legally); arbitrarily imposing...
The Silent Number: Ubuntu 10.04 Post-Install... →
Ubuntu 10.04 Post-Install Guide →
The Silent Number: Ubuntu 10.04 Post-Install Guide: What to do and try after installing Lucid Lynx. Excellent overview of all the cool stuff you can set up to really stoke your system and make it even more functional and beautiful.
April 2010
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Social spaghetti
Setting up this new Tumblr blog at the same time I’m working behind the scenes updating my personal blog (douglasjohnston.net) and seeing what needs to be done with DIYPlanner. Created new subdomain off douglasjohnston.net for Tumblr. Created new feeds using FeedBurner for both blog and Tumblr. Connected one or the other or both to Twitter. Connected one or the other or both to Twitter. Set...