Learning iPhone programming
- September
- 23
So I’ve been wondering, for somebody that knows next to nothing about programming, how hard is it to learn programming the iPhone? And when I say nothing, I really do mean nothing. The closest thing to programming I know is how to make something bold in html
Ok so I did take basic C++ back in [...]
Online Detective Work Helps Nab Bad Guy With Stolen Laptop
- June
- 11
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The guy who ended up with Kim Lingel’s stolen MacBook and iPhone wasn’t counting on Joey Carenza III.
“When he gets the scent of something and it really intrigues him, he’s on it,” says Lingel, 25, who counts Carenza as one of her best friends. “He’s tenacious.”
You don’t want Carenza on your trail. He is a [...]
STARTUP TO WATCHVeodia: Gambling on a Better Way to Stream Video
- April
- 25
What It Does
Veodia, incorporated in January 2006, started with funds from angel investors and only recently had its first round of venture financing. Its service lets organizations broadcast and manage live, on-demand, TV-quality videos using the MPEG-4/H.264 standard, and they can do this without investing heavily in personnel and infrastructure.
Take customer MIT Technology Review, for [...]
PODCASTFunny Way to Launch a Product
- April
- 25
But Wait, There’s More
The fun didn’t end there. The site kept listing different physical addresses for the business, going from a suburban neighborhood in Miami to a more industrial building. Then Psystar stopped taking credit card orders, saying its provider, PowerPay, had “dropped the ball.” It moved to PayPal instead. PowerPay countered that in fact [...]
PRODUCT REVIEWA Love Affair With MacBook Air
- April
- 18
A Labor of Love
But then you pick up the Air and hold it. “Wow. This is awesome,” you think. Then you fantasize how you could fit it into your computing life.
Here are two scenarios:
You already own a Mac with a bigger hard drive, but you need a laptop for business trips or to transport [...]
OPINIONA Linux Device That Could Beat the iPhone
- April
- 11
MID: Only Thing Missing is Steve Jobs
I am writing this as Intel announces products based on its MID platform, the best of which — by Lenovo — is Linux-based and appears to have an interface could actually be better than the iPhone’s.
While I’ve always believed the way to make Linux successful in the consumer [...]
PRODUCT REVIEWmiShare Tune Swapper: Almost There but Still Buggy
- April
- 11
How It Does It
Plug an iPod with the music to share into the source end. Let’s call this the “pitcher.” (Hey, baseball season is here!) At the other end, plug into the “catcher” iPod to receive the music.
Unfortunately, my 80-gigabyte iPod did not work as a catcher. But as a pitcher, it sent songs to [...]
PODCASTThe World’s Smartest End Table, Smoking Your Phone, Document Standards Gone Wild
- April
- 11
Smoke Your Phone?
Sure, if you chop your cell phone into little pieces, roll it up and smoke it, it probably won’t be good for you.
However, one Australian neurosurgeon says your mobile phone is more dangerous than cigarettes, even if you just talk on it.
Vini Khurana reviewed several studies, as well as a number of articles [...]
PRODUCT REVIEWmiShare Tune Swapper: Almost There but Still Buggy
- April
- 10
How It Does It
Plug an iPod with the music to share into the source end. Let’s call this the “pitcher.” (Hey, baseball season is here!) At the other end, plug into the “catcher” iPod to receive the music.
Unfortunately, my 80-gigabyte iPod did not work as a catcher. But as a pitcher, it sent songs to [...]
OPINIONMaking Progress by Making Peace
- April
- 3
Microsoft’s Peace Dividend
I’m writing this at a Technology Summit at Microsoft targeted largely at open source advocates from mostly mixed shops. Initially we were discussing misperceptions surrounding Microsoft’s actual positions. One of the first had to do with Microsoft threatening to sue customers who used Linux and pointing out that this practice has been discontinued [...]
