October 2010
20 posts
"Let's see" - Ballmer
I wonder if Ballmer’s biography will paraphrase Nixon’s famous words with: “I wasn’t wrong… I just said things that later on seemed ridiculous”.
(Via John Grubber. Original via Fake Steve Jobs)
links for 2010-10-26
Mile High Comics - Your New And Collectible Comic Book Store
(tags: comics database online shop)
links for 2010-10-25
gollum — A wiki built on top of Git
Gollum is a simple wiki system built on top of Git that powers GitHub Wikis.
Gollum wikis are simply Git repositories that adhere to a specific format. Gollum pages may be written in a variety of formats and can be edited in a number of ways depending on your needs. You can edit your wiki locally:
With your favorite text...
How a computing platform dies: What's really wrong...
Mobile Opportunity: What’s really wrong with BlackBerry (and what to do about it): “To explain RIM’s challenges, I have to give you a little tech industry history. When I worked at Apple, I spent a lot of time studying failed computer platforms. I thought that if we understood the failures, we might be able to prevent the same thing from happening to us.
I looked at everything...
links for 2010-10-24
SpamAssassin public mail corpus
Legitimate (ham) and spam emails
(tags: data dataset spam ai datamining)
Enron Email Dataset
Legitimate real corporate email
(tags: data datamining dataset ai)
links for 2010-10-23
Machine Learning Open Source Software
(tags: ai algorithms code software statistics machine-learning opensource)
Boarrd. by weLaika — Rails Rumble MMX
Cool web status board:
Boarrd is a hosted, higly customizable, do-it-yourself status board giving you a quick & fancy look at all the indicators...
Bloomberg Game Changers: Steve Jobs - Video
Bloomberg Game Changers: Steve Jobs - Video - Bloomberg: “Oct. 14 (Bloomberg) — Through interviews with friends, former colleagues and business associates, GAME CHANGERS reveals the many layers of the intensely private Steve Jobs - his style of leadership, management and creative process. Interviews include Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, former Apple CEO John Scully, journalist turned...
Android – Force Move your apps to SD Without...
Android – Move your apps to SD | Serge Jespers:
The trick is actually pretty simple and all credits go to Jason Patel who posted this on the Modaco Nexus One forum.
You need to make sure that you enabled ‘USB debugging’ on your phone.
You need the Android SDK but I’m sure you have that installed by now, right? ;-)
Connect your phone to a USB port, open up a terminal window, and type ‘adb...
Winamp For Android
Winamp comes to Android, one of our childhood dreams is realized — Engadget
Finally. Looks like the best 3rd party music player out there for Android. So far it even looks better than the standard music player even if the interface is not as pretty, it does have some very nice features such as a “history” button.
Available on the Market.
links for 2010-10-21
jlamarche’s iOS-OpenGLES-Stuff at master - GitHub
lasses, scripts, and projects related to OpenGL ES programming on the iPhone.
(tags: iphone development opengl code)
The Man on 7-Inch Tablets
Steve Jobs drops knowledge on earnings call: calls out Google and RIM, says 7-inch tablets are ‘DOA’ — Engadget: “Steve pretty much outright killed any potential for 7-inch iPad rumors, saying that the software just isn’t right for that size (‘This size is useless unless you include sandpaper so users can sand their fingers down to a quarter of their...
Best iPhone Apps - Part II: Reading
Part II of my best iPhone apps segment focus on apps for reading.
Instapaper: it might just be my favorite iPhone app. The core idea is that you save a web page to read later by clicking on a bookmarklet in your web brownser. When you have the time (e.g. during a plane trip) you take out your iPhone (or iPad) and read all the web pages (e.g. news articles) you didn’t have time to read...
Best iPhone Apps - Part I: Notes
This is Part I of my long overdue post on the iPhone apps I use. I’ve tried many iPhone apps for note taking. These are the ones I still use and consider the best:
Nebulous Notes: Syncs with dropbox. I use it for writing down ideas and the occasional bullet point post draft. Good clean interface.
Writeroom: almost exclusively for blog posts (including this one) or other larger pieces of...
240+ versions of Android
TweetDeck encountered more than 36,000 testers using an enormous pool of 244 different handets
(PCPro)
Stats available at TweetDeck’s blog.
I’m going to stop collecting Android’s woes here. Too many of them, even ignoring half of them, my blog is starting to get filled with android posts.
Everything That's Wrong With Desktop Linux in 3min
This is actually supposed to serve as a Linux Ad…
To me it summarized the disconnect between the linux crowd and the people who just want to use a computer to get things done.
Why anyone would consider a good thing wasting time choosing different window managers is beyond me tough it connects with Marco’s post which I might blog about later.
Linspotting from Caroline Pimenta on...
Umbilical iPhone Cable
Awesome. I want one!
Report: 3D televisions not selling...yet | ITworld
Report: 3D televisions not selling…yet | ITworld: “TV manufacturers are trying their best to make 2010 the Year of 3D TV, but according to a report at DisplaySearch, consumers aren’t cooperating. I doubt this news comes as a surprise to most of us; I personally can’t think of anyone who rushed out to buy a 3D TV.”
(Via slashdot)
Apparently people aren’t as...
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links for 2010-10-09
Running Playlist
(tags: music)
links for 2010-10-04
Many Eyes
(tags: visualization Data graphics statistics web software)
