browsing gender
This program analyzes your browsing history to determine your gender.
From what I can tell, it disregarded the porn sites.
Am I Rich on Cydia
The $999.99 iPhone app, Am I Rich, which has recently been removed from the iTunes App Store, can now be installed for free through Cydia.
You can find it under the “Toys” section.
I Am Rich
Armin Heinrich has written an iPhone app that sells for 999.99 the purpose of which is to remind the user of his wealth.
Musical Buttonpad for iPhone
It’s, unfortunately, still in development.
iPhone 3g Pwnage on Windows
Windows users (like me) who have been searching for a Mac to jailbreak there iPhone can finally stop hassling their friends. We’ll do it on our own machines, thank you.
iPhone 2.0 software has been jailbroken
Go here to find out more.
Don’t Fuck With the Little Guy
- A network administrator has locked up a multimillion dollar computer system for San Francisco that handles sensitive data and is refusing to give police the password, the San Francisco Chronicle reported Monday.
The employee, 43-year-old Terry Childs, was arrested Sunday. He gave some passwords to police, which did not work, and refused to reveal the real code, the paper reported.
I think this guy saw Live Free or Die Hard. Hope they don’t shoot him in the leg to get the code! See story here.
iPhone software
I updated the software on my iPhone yesterday to 2.0. So far, not much of a difference. Are there any apps people think are invaluable?
Also, did anyone get a new one?
Here’s hoping Apple Rejects iPhone Apps Based on Terrible UIs
This picture says a lot about why maybe it is a good idea Apple is going to be the gatekeeper for allowing iPhone apps into the App Store.
(via DF)
BlackBerry to iPhone 3G: Is Now The Time To Pull the Trigger?
For anyone out there who is considering moving to the iPhone 3G from a BlackBerry (as I am), I have posted a lengthy consideration of making such a jump over at my employer’s blog. If you are considering such a move or have done it in the past, I SO would like your comments.
Do you remember Hypercard?
I do. Tilestack is a web app that riffs off the old mac software.
Who remembers the flying toasters?
Thankfully, these folks did.
Freedom!
No, not the totally awesome, post-9/11 Paul McCartney anthem. Freedom is a Mac application that disables your internet connection for up to three hours at a time, allowing you to focus on a project uninterrupted.
Freedom will free you from the distractions of the internet, allowing you time to code, write, or create. At the end of your selected offline period, Freedom re-enables your network, restoring everything as normal.
(via 37signals)
How some bloggers feel about IM and Twitter
[I]n terms of IM status, I never consider myself “available” in the sense of “interruptible.” Ever. There is no time of any day, under any circumstances, when I think to myself, “I really don’t mind being interrupted now.“
—Joe Kissell, “Instant Messaging for Introverts,” at TidBITS
A long and interesting article by a guy who has to use IM from time to time, even though he hates it and finds it completely disruptive.
Read more
Photoshop Express
Adobe has announced the launch of an online photo editing and storage site that allows images to be pushed and pulled to and from other popular sites like facebook.
iTunes by the Numbers
I picked up this game from my friend Cynthia “Cindy” Closkey—who may be referred to by y’all as that other Cindy.
Total Length
7803 items, 19:23:55:16 total time, 31.50 GB (ah, so that’s what’s taking up all my hard drive space; a lot of this is podcasts and audiobooks, though)
First and Last Songs (by title)
“A.M. Slow Golden Hit,” Hotel Lights (No idea what this song is; it’s from the SXSW 2006 Showcase, which I’m still sorting through to see what’s worth keeping. Played once.)
“?,” The Mommyheads, from Bingham’s Hole (this is the album’s hidden track, I assume)
Shortest and Longest Songs
Once I deleted all the junk at either end (interrupted downloads, broken tracks, streams, and the like):
“Part 2: No. 42 Recitative, He That Dwelleth in Heaven” (0:15) by the Ambrosian Singers/Händel, The Messiah
“Something in the Way,” (20:36) Nirvana (same answer as Cindy had) Read more
Microsoft WorldWide Telescope
Rex, bless his soul, was nice enough to post about an incredible video on new Microsoft technology which will change the way we view the universe: imagine Google Earth for space. There is no software released yet but there is a website.
You are required to watch the video. It’s the rules.
Clusterflock migrating to WordPress this evening
Flockers:
Clusterflock will be migrated to Wordpress this evening starting around 8 PM CST ( -6 GMT ). During that time, comments will be disabled and no one should post new entries until the all clear is given ( unless of course you want that entry to be lost forever ).
I live by Murphy’s Law when it comes to upgrades/migrations, so I’m not going to give a hard expected time to be back. But my hope is it won’t take long.
Microsoft buying Yahoo! for $44.6 Billion
Microsoft has publicly offered over $44 Billion to acquire financially struggling Yahoo!.
Ballmer must be smiling today, Google is watching.
StupidFilter
Apparently, an actual project.
From the FAQ:
Isn’t filtering stupidity elitist?
Yes. Yes, it is. That’s sort of the whole point.
(via)
A Smut Story
Dear Popular Mechanics,
I’ve enjoyed the reader letters in your magazine since first sneaking a peak at your pages as a boy, but I never thought that one day I would write in with an unbelievable story of my own.
Dear AOL,
What do you suck so bad?
You are the offspring of People Magazine’s forbidden love affair with a big-ass Hewlett-Packard server. You are a shopping mall built into a train station. You are like having to surf TV channels before making a phone call.
Dear Microsoft Office Outlook Web Access,
How are you? I am fine. Your email program is the third one I’ve had to use in nearly five years at my current place of business. The company’s brisk employee turnover rate is the only thing that compares to how often it adopts and dismisses email systems.
mirrors
Image from Bitforms website.
Currently on view at the Bitforms gallery in New York is the most recent work from artist Daniel Rozin. Most well know of his work are his Mirrors, some based in software and some mechanical. The Wooden Mirror (2000) hung outside the elevator at ITP where it captured ones attention nearly everyday. The low resolution imagery coupled with the soothing robotic sounds of hundreds of little servo motors trying to capture a passing persons image is nothing short of sublime.
In the show are the Snow Mirror, the We ave Mirror and the Peg Mirror (links go to quicktime movies of the mirrors in action. recommended)
Also exhibited for the first time, Rozin’s Peg Mirror comprises 650 circular wooden pieces that are cut on an angle. Casting shadows by twisting and rotating in unison, wooden pegs forming concentric circles surround a small central camera. The mirrored image produced in this work is activated by software authored by Rozin that processes video signals and breaks up imagery geometrically, seemingly pixel by pixel. The silently moving wood components in this piece flicker like jewels or coins in the spotlight, challenging our notions about what constitutes a “digital object”.
Paint!
(Via The Denver Egotist)