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Wired has a fascinating article about the technology that could replace 35mm film [via Daring Fireball].

The first time you select the voicemail button your an iPhone, in typical Apple fashion, it offers to help you configure your voicemail. This was much nicer than the traditional voice prompts one normally has to navigate, but the final step (talking to the network) repeatedly failed for me. Google indicated that it might be [...]

As revealed in my previous post, I recently purchased an iPhone. The reason for this is that the Internet stopped working on my old phone, and since I needed a new portable Internet device anyway and the web being the iPhone’s forté, it seemed like the best choice for my requirements.
But is it any [...]

While a Mac usually “Just Works”, when it does encounter an error situation, OS X often emits a a very vague message that can make debugging a long-winded process. For example, suppose you have recently brought home a shiny new iPhone and upon connecting it to iTunes you receive: “Could not connect to iPhone because [...]

MacInTouch has an interesting review of Amazon’s electronic book reader, the Kindle. The review is based on long term usage of the device rather than the initial “test drive” articles which appear when a product is first released.
When the Kindle was launched, the Internet was alive with speculation as to whether this was an [...]

BBC, Thursday — “financial crisis”

Schneier, Friday — “…may close”

Techworld, Friday — “The press has been a little over dramatic“.

I recently picked up a Netgear DG834Gv3 wireless router and modem on ebay for a very reasonable price. In order to make iChat video conferences work seamlessly (i.e. without having to configure port forwarding) I had to:

Upgrade it to the latest firmware (V4.01.30).
Toggle UPnP off and on (twice according to some forums).
Disable port scan [...]

Leopard is the product name for the fifth release of Apple’s OS X operating system. I was pretty happy with the previous release, so apart from the automatic backup feature known as “Time Machine”, I was unsure as to how much benefit I would derive from the upgrade but it turns out that the little [...]

Buried in the changelog of the latest NetNewsWire release:
Sleep
Fixed a bug that prevented automatic sleep for some people.
Which is interesting because for some time now my macbook has not been putting itself to sleep after the correct period of idleness (although a manual command to “sleep” worked fine). After shutting down NetNewsWire and leaving my [...]

I was prepared to be underwhelmed by the BBC iPlayer but after catching the last 5 minutes of “Top Gear: Polar Challenge” I decided it might be fun to watch the beginning. The quality of the flash video is surprisingly good—in fact, good enough for full screen on my 13″ macbook—although it is a shame [...]

It seems that on Mac OS X Leopard /usr/bin/emacs comes pre-compiled with carbon support. Great, except you still can’t start it as a graphical application without a very simple wrapper which is available for download.

Apple provides method for Mac users to create custom ringtones on their iPhone. (Also: a tutorial)
A website allowing the reality-TV generation to exposepublicise themselves on the web comes second to the iPhone in the 2007 Google Zeitgeist. (Facebook was third.)
Google launches a wikipedia competitor.
Despite having a year to ramp up production, Nintendo still cannot [...]

xkcd on Python. (It’s a pity the title is hidden unless you mouse-over the graphic.)

Take a look at what Dell lists a “Windows Vista Capable” PC is “Great for…”.

With iPhone stories pretty much drowning out all other news on the Internet, it seemed worthwhile to watch the keynote and see this marvel firsthand. Based on that presentation, it’s impossible to know how well the iPhone will perform as a telephone (I noticed that Steve Jobs “fat-fingered” the keyboard on several occasions during the [...]