Author Archives: frank

Facebook, your user interface is horrible

2010-04-11 – 14:19

Lately I’ve noticed several of my friends’ posts on Facebook are tagged with a Twitter icon, and most of the updates I want to post are small, so I figured I’d give it a try. Searched for Twitter on FB and got two apps, Twitter and Selective Tweets. First I tried installing Twitter, but when [...]

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Best summary so far of iPhone OS 4.0 license agreement vs Unity3D

2010-04-11 – 06:57

tl:dr no one knows for sure yet but there sure are a lot of … opinions!
Unity3D Answers: is-unity3d-banned-by-new-apple-sdk-licence
It’s unlikely this language is aimed at Unity, but it could easily become collateral damage in this fight.
Edit 12 April 2010: Jean-Louis Gassée gets it, which is kind of cool for me because when I worked at [...]

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Why does my iPhone bleep at me when I make a call?

2010-04-08 – 08:23

I’ve got a few email accounts that don’t support Push. On the Settings->Mail->Fetch New Data screen, you can choose whether to fetch new data every 15 minutes, 30 minutes, Hourly, or Manually. An uncharacteristically long paragraph of text explains that for better battery life, fetch less often, so I had it set to Manually. Almost [...]

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Meta-tweet

2009-03-24 – 20:27

Conversation between me, today, and me, circa March 2006:

“Hey Frank, it’s me, Frank, but from the future — 2009! I wanted to tell you a few important things. All these Web 2.0, social networking sites, and mash-ups are going to to make a ton of money in the markets, but they’ll lose most of it. [...]

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Chili shepherd’s pie

2009-01-05 – 20:40

Over the holidays I had the opportunity to see some daytime television shows. Rachel Ray’s show is engaging, and both Andrea and I saw her make a Chili Shepherd’s Pie, but my Web Search Fu apparently isn’t as strong as it used to be, ’cause I can’t find it. I did find one that looks [...]

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