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9 lesser-known features of iPhone OS 3.0

6/22/2009 in General by face | No comments

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.

28 tips – iPod touch

6/22/2009 in General by face | No comments

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.

CodeSOD: Simple SQL

6/15/2009 in General by face | No comments

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 ;-)

What’s A ‘Spooey’? A Field Guide To Freeway Interchanges, Part 1

5/19/2009 in General by face | No comments

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.

O’Grady’s PowerPage – Your Mobile Technology Destination

5/8/2009 in General by face | No comments

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.

Post link to wordpress question…

5/8/2009 in General by face | No comments

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.

via Post link to wordpress question….

End the University as We Know It

5/8/2009 in General by face | No comments

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.

WhirCat · Analysis: SSD performance — is a slowdown inevitable?

5/8/2009 in General by face | No comments

WhirCat · Analysis: SSD performance — is a slowdown inevitable?.

Getting active with OmniFocus: first days

5/5/2009 in General by face | No comments

As threatened promised, here is my first installment of Mastering OmniFocus: Can a Slacker go from Productivity Zero to Guru or Come Up with a Pithy, Descriptive Blog Post Title? Well, we certainly know the answer to one of those questions, don’t we?

via The Omni Mouth » Getting active with OmniFocus: first days.

This is a reference for Chris

WhirCat

5/1/2009 in General by face | No comments

I got tired of trying to choose between UDAP and Rdb Notes for keeping track of work-related things.

Welcome to WhirCat

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