Month: May 2011

Found a few things over the weekend that I wanted to share before Google IO (@googleio) starts. “Grey’s Anatomy” Fans To Get an Interactive Viewing Experience on iPad I found out about this from using the ABC Player for iPad, which is exactly what TV studios should be producing. The iPad’s use cases are still evolving,… Read More

Kind of a big deal that I somehow missed. BlackBerry is a blindspot for me for a number of reasons. RIM to Extend BlackBerry Enterprise Server to Android, iOS | John Paczkowski | Digital Daily | AllThingsD RIM extends device management to iOS, Android h/t ppk (@ppk) Many of you are IT pros, so is… Read More

Great observation from Doghouse Diaries (@willrayraf) h/t Geekosystem. Oddly, I found out that Osama bin Laden had been killed by accident on the TV of all places. Mostly because the news had preempted a show I wanted to watch. I felt a wave of nostalgia. I’ve used Twitter as my go-to for news for years now, e.g.… Read More

Not much going on lately, so I though why not bring a thread Chet (@oraclenerd) and I had going over email to light. Last week, Google Reader was acting up, and I mused that it might not matter since no one used it anyway. That led to a declaration that RSS was dead, although I… Read More

Funny take on how work has evolved. CoreToon: Things To Hang On Your Wall – Core77 Thinking about this, how many reality shows profile jobs like those in the cartoon? I can think of a dozen offhand. We’re oddly drawn to watching Alaskan crabbers, truckers, coal miners, loggers, restaurant workers, etc. The only cubicle dweller… Read More

Terms of service have been front and center for a few weeks now. First there was the location tracking fiasco affecting both iOS and Android users. Lawsuits have already been filed against both Apple and Google. Now today, I found this item warning against migrating Delicious bookmarks to AVOS, who purchased the service from Yahoo… Read More

Thought this was a funny observation about the equally frustrating but different aspects of owning Android phones and iPhones. Via Geekosystem h/t fnordramen Coincidentally, I spent about half a day last week upgrading to CyanogenMod (@cyanogen), which is still the closest thing to running vanilla Android if you’re not rocking a Nexus One or Nexus S. The latest version,… Read More