Monthly Archives: June 2007

OS X 1.0 (iPhone)

Looks like I had my own Mail crash on the iPhone. Interesting tidbits. I especially liked the version number in the plist: <key>os_version</key> <string>OS X 1.0 (1A543a)</string>

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iPhone Edge network performance in Seattle

I tried to use the the network speed test setup at SpeakEasy, but it didn’t seem to want to find that site. I suspect the flash is screwing it up. Ryan Rawson said in an email he was getting 115Kbps … Continue reading

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Syncing photos

Interesting tidbit that I didn’t expect. After taking a few photos with the iPhone, I came home and plugged it into the laptop. iPhoto immediately came active and sync’d down the photo’s from the phone. I knew I could sync … Continue reading

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IM client probably won’t happen soon on an iPhone

I’m willing to be a IM client won’t happen any time soon on an iPhone. The reason? AT&T is charging that nice little extra texting fee for SMS messages. It will be interesting to see how that all plays out … Continue reading

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Got one!

Yep, I got one. I haven’t opened the package yet – catching up from missing the day while waiting in line…

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NoonHat

Brian Dorsey has just launched a really interesting site – NoonHat. It’s apparently written in Django (yeah!!!), and the first lunches set up with it happened today. It’s basically a “blind lunch” – you and up to 5 other people … Continue reading

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I love this quote

From an article at boston.com on Games and AI that popped up in the ACM daily news bites: “A lot of the most interesting work in artificial intelligence is being done by game developers,” says Bruce Blumberg, senior scientist at … Continue reading

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Freedocs

Andy Oram published his own short research/survey on why people write free documentation. It’s an interesting read, and I kind of wish I’d seen the survey ongoing when it was live, as I’m one of those people. I started off … Continue reading

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Indigo Girls

I got to see the Indigo Girls in concert tonight – it was the opening night of ZooTunes at the Seattle Zoo. It was a good concert, with a lot of tunes that I hadn’t heard (I haven’t exactly been … Continue reading

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damn fine eggs benedict

On a lark, Karen and I stopped by one of the new places on Queen Anne – Julias. There’s a few of them around Seattle, but the Queen Anne location just opened four days ago. I hadn’t been there, but … Continue reading

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