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A while back MacYourself published a compilation called “28 tips & tricks all iPhone and iPod touch users should know,” which focused on some of the new features iPhone OS 2.0 brought to the table. Almost a year later the 3.0 update is here and there’s a ton more to learn! New discoveries will probably continue to pop up in the coming days and weeks, but with a whole day of using the iPhone 3G S under my belt I have already come across a bunch of cool improvements aside from the ones Apple has been hyping. Note that these also apply to the iPod touch, original iPhone, and iPhone 3G running the 3.0 software.
via 9 of the coolest lesser-known features of iPhone OS 3.0 update | MacYourself.
With the iPhone selling like hotcakes all across the world, millions of people are becoming familiar with and learning just how powerful Apple’s Multi-Touch platform really is. While this comprehensive list of tips and lesser known features may not appeal to the die-hard Apple fans who are on the cutting-edge of every move the company makes, new and casual users should find at least a few gems they weren’t aware of before. If you have a helpful hint for the iPhone or iPod touch that isn’t listed here, post a comment to share it with us!
via 28 tips & tricks all iPhone and iPod touch users should know | MacYourself.
SELECT * FROM bean_overtime_availability WHERE `startDateTime` >= DATE(NOW()) AND `available` = 1;
One project that John inherited was a fairly simple web application that tracked overtime. Simple, that is, from the front end. The back end PHP code was responsible for querying a MySQL database with queries similar to this:
via CodeSOD: Simple SQL:
Truly wonderful code generator on this one. Made my morning 
Everybody knows what a cloverleaf looks like — but could you identify a volleyball, a double trumpet, or a “spooey” if you drove on one in the course of your highway travels? These are among the distinctive designs that transportation engineers have conjured up to keep traffic flowing and motorists headed in the right direction when major roads intersect.
via What’s A ‘Spooey’? A Field Guide To Freeway Interchanges, Part 1 » INFRASTRUCTURIST.
Nine years ago, Mr. Ellison sued Internet service providers for failing to stop a user from posting four of his stories to an online newsgroup. Since settling that suit, he has pursued more than 240 people who have posted his work to the Internet without permission. “If you put your hand in my pocket, you’ll drag back six inches of bloody stump,” he said.
via With E-Readers Comes Wider Piracy of Books – NYTimes.com:
Whenever I hear Harlan Ellison’s name I see Hunter Thompson’s image.
What’s up with that?
The title of the article when you read it is Print Books Are Target of Pirates on the Web.
The title of the web page is With E-Readers Comes Wider Piracy of Books
In either case, I have a problem with the headline implications. People who shell out the money for an e-reader are unlikely to be “avoiding the cost” of buying electronic editions.
Petty theft? Probably. Piracy (for a profit)? Unlikely.
What really annoys me is the blurb from the email news from the NY Times
E-reader technology is making it easier to obtain and distribute copyrighted material on the Web for free.
How on earth does a Kindle make it easy to distribute material?
Late Thursday, Bare Bones Software released version 9.2 of BBEdit, its popular text and HTML editor. The software retails for US$125 for new users. The new version, a 15.4 megabyte download, features the following fixes and improvements:
via O’Grady’s PowerPage – Your Mobile Technology Destination.
Late Thursday, Bare Bones Software released version 9.2 of BBEdit, its popular text and HTML editor. The software retails for US$125 for new users. The new version, a 15.4 megabyte download, features the following fixes and improvements:
via O’Grady’s PowerPage – Your Mobile Technology Destination.
I would like a simple way (hopefully just a few clicks or less) to post links to my Wordpress blog when I find interesting news stories in NNW. I found that you can post to weblog via MarsEdit, but that posts the entire story. I just want to post one or more links. Preferably the Title of the page that was an active link to the website. Right now I’ve been copying/pasting the titles by hand, then manually copying the link, highlighting the title, making a link, etc… it’s actually easier to just do it by hand and do search/replace to build the html manually. Either way it’s very tedious for a lot of links.
2. Abolish permanent departments, even for undergraduate education, and create problem-focused programs. These constantly evolving programs would have sunset clauses, and every seven years each one should be evaluated and either abolished, continued or significantly changed. It is possible to imagine a broad range of topics around which such zones of inquiry could be organized: Mind, Body, Law, Information, Networks, Language, Space, Time, Media, Money, Life and Water.
via Op-Ed Contributor – End the University as We Know It – NYTimes.com.
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