Archive for July, 2007

Asshat of the Month… Stan Beer

Wednesday, July 25th, 2007

Asshat of the month award for July goes to Stan Beer of ITWire in Australia for being nothing more than a Dvorak channel. Reading the essay titled Exploiting the iPhone on the website of security firm Independent Security Evaluators, two things are crystal clear. First, the iPhone is actually a computer. ...

It’s the ecosystem I’m anticipating

Monday, July 23rd, 2007

Critics of the iPhone have been screaming about the lack of MAPI support (as if that really mattered) whereas the biggest noise I've heard from developers regarding the iPhone is the lack of an official SDK. Of course, the most obvious reason for no SDK is simply that It ain't ready ...

A great mentor…

Friday, July 20th, 2007

Mr. Burns: I’ll keep it short and sweet — Family. Religion. Friendship. These are the three demons you must slay if you wish to succeed in business.

“Greed is bad, mmkay” - Sony

Friday, July 20th, 2007

Every see those courtroom dramas where there's a beautiful woman's life on the line and her lawyer (who's secretly in love with her) is fighting to keep her out of the electric chair? And there's usually a state prosecutor who has slick back hair and a weasel's countenance? You know ...

iPhone browser detection: it’s wrong so stop it.

Thursday, July 19th, 2007

TUAW has a rant about web sites made specifically for iPhones and how it's wrong! Nothing irks me more than browsing to a site only to be greeted with a page that, based on the user agent my browser supplies, keeps me out. Try going to some of these new iPhone ...

A storm about the iPod

Friday, July 13th, 2007

A recent article syndicated by the Associated Press describes how mixing iPods and storms is a bad thing. Listen to an iPod during a storm, and you may get more than electrifying tunes. A Canadian jogger suffered wishbone-shaped chest and neck burns, ruptured eardrums and a broken jaw when lightning traveled through ...

Is the iPhone an acceptable phone?

Wednesday, July 4th, 2007

So how good is the iPhone at being a phone?  I guess I'm going to have to wait and see because I've seen reports claiming that battery life is both excellent and yet cripplingly shorter than advertised. I think a lot of people might expect the battery life to be shorter ...

eWeek again. This time: Microsoft saves the iPhone…

Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007

Microsoft got some great positive press from eWeek as the saviours of the iPhone when they fixed a bug with Exchange Server 2007 which might have prevented iPhone from getting email using IMAP4. It's lucky for the rest of us that Microsoft stepped in like this or where would the ...