Dive into the archives.
- Path, Privacy and Permission
Earlier today Arun Thampi published his investigation into data uploaded by the iPhone application Path. Arun was participating in a hackathon when he noticed Path making an API call that indicated it was submitting a contact from his phone. Upon further inspection it was determined that Path had uploaded his entire address book to their [...]
- Thank You Zerofootprint
A little more than three years ago Zerofootprint Software Inc. was born out of the not-for-profit Zerofootprint to service the burgeoning green house gas measurement market. Radiant Core, the company I founded along with Jay Goldman became Zerofootprint Software’s initial development team and for the first time I lead a development team on the client [...]
- The Warehouse – the difference between storage and memory
Every now and then I provide computer advice to friends and family. Eventually the subject of their computer’s performance comes up whereby I state that the most cost effective improvement to a computer’s speed is more memory. This inevitably leads to a disambiguation between memory and storage space. So for the record, here is the [...]
- Configuring the ZTE MF668 HSPA Rocket Mobile Internet Stick on Snow Leopard
I’m posting this for the other poor souls who’ve purchase a Rogers ZTE MF668 HSPA Rocket Mobile Internet Stick and can’t get it to connect using Snow Leopard. 1. Attach the stick to the computer. It should appear as a mounted volume. Run the Connection Manager install program to install the drivers. If you can’t see [...]
- Weak Passwords
You can read this rather detailed Lifehacker article on Weak Passwords by John Pozadzides or you can simply follow these rules. Change all your passwords to be a minimum of eight characters long The password must be a mix of lower case letters, upper case letters, numbers and special characters (e.g. !#@$%^&*) Do not use [...]
- Smitten Kitchen
My new favourite website is a feast for the stomach and the eyes, Smitten Kitchen by Deb Perelman with assistance from her husband Alex. I have it on my RSS feed list but you have to visit the site to appreciate the labour of love that goes into this site. I’m going to try to [...]
- Medal Count by Athletes and Population
Now that we’ve got some medals on the board I was interested in seeing what the points total would look like if we factored in the size of the team or the population pool that the athletes had come from to see how that changes the rankings.
- Giving Back
I recently started using the mobile location application / game Foursquare. It allows you to share your location with friends and earn points and badges for how often you share. Foursquare also allows you to integrate with your Twitter account to announce when you’ve “checked in” at a location, earned a badge or earned the [...]
- Chest Pain at Toronto General
4:00PM – At the office. Still experiencing mild chest pains from the night before. These don’t seem heart related but I decided to called Telehealth Ontario who had a nurse call me back five minutes later. Ran through a series of standard questions relating to chest pain and advised me to visit emergency at my [...]
- My Road to HD
For years I’ve watched with envy as others purchased their high definition flat screen televisions. Then a few weeks before Christmas my wife remarked that HD televisions had come down in price and would we be interested in purchasing one? Yes we would. We’re big movie watchers and have grown to love our PVR for [...]
