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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.

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?

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.

via Post link to wordpress question….

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.

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

This is more than a little hypocritical of me, because I’m lousy about checking other people’s blogs. I’m told there’s a way to have blogs you like emailed directly to your Inbox so that you don’t have to go look every day to see if something new has been posted. Perhaps one of you know how to do that and could share the trick with the rest of us in a reply comment to this post?

(Via Musings.)

I’ll be helping Monique figure out how to cope in the land of feeds.

Welcome to WhirCat

Displaying large results on html page
Posted by: bhaskar goel ()
Date: April 16, 2009 02:36AM

I have run a mysql query which returns about 20000000 results and i want to display them in on an html page , doing this at one go takes too much time. what are your suggestions for this?

I always wanted to suck down 20,000,000 results on a web page. Yessirree.

Summary: Big, two-dimensional drop-down panels group navigation options to eliminate scrolling and use typography, icons, and tooltips to explain the users choices.

via Mega Drop-Down Navigation Menus Work Well Jakob Nielsens Alertbox.

E-Flat comes back the next night in a three-piece suit with nicely shined shoes. The bartender says, “You’re looking sharp tonight. Come on in, this could be a major development.”

Sure enough, E-flat soon takes off his suit and everything else, and is au natural.

Eventually C sobers up and realizes in horror that he’s under a rest. C is brought to trial, found guilty of contributing to the diminution of a minor, and is sentenced to 10 years of D.S. without Coda at an upscale correctional facility.

“Binary packaging does encourage sloppy coding/design, contrast with the stochastic API unit testing which occurs naturally with all the building with different configurations.”

via Welcome to Gentoo is Rice, the Volume goes to 11 here..

Geekness required…

Executable code and supporting data that doesn’t change often, along with software and data that has an operational impact when inadvertently or maliciously altered, should be stored on media that is read-only or volatile (reverts to a known stable image on reboot).

via Self-guarding storage for ultimate server security |Ahead of the Curve | Tom Yager | InfoWorld .

People want full ownership and control of their information so they can turn off access to it at any time.

via Facebook | On Facebook, People Own and Control Their Information.

Let’s see. I’ll put these few words out there on the internets…cool, my friend just saw it. Not so cool, that creep in the next cubicle is making comments about it. Give it back! Give it back!

Oh noooooooo.

With the right tools and techniques, you can use Twitter to find people who are like you and share your passions, and build strong networks quickly, effectively and cheaply.

via The Best Techniques For Building Your Tribe On Twitter The Right Way | Field Notes From Wired America – Steffan Antonas.