Category Archives: Geek

Wordpress for iPad

2010-05-28 – 10:20

tl;dr be careful if you use it. As of version 2.4, it doesn’t save the contents of the active editing view when the app is closed; I lost 15 minutes of typing this morning to this misfeature. Even the Web version is better about auto-saving than the iPad app! It also doesn’t support copy [...]

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Ubiquitous robotics on the verge?

2010-05-28 – 08:39

The Economist’s Babbage writes about robotics today. He mentions several software development kits (SDK), and highlights one from Stanford, Willow Garage, that is very promising. He then says, “But the killer applications for personal robots remain as illusive [sic] as ever.”
Think of robotics as the extension of computers, or more generally, automation, in to [...]

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I think I need some tunes on my R1150RT

2010-05-07 – 08:49

It’s been a year and a couple months since I bought my nicely used R1150RT, and I’ve only managed to put about four thousand miles on it in that time. That includes two decent road trips and a bunch of commuting. Often when I ride it, I notice the little radio antenna wobbling along next [...]

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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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It’s tough to use a computer with no display

2008-12-18 – 10:07

The screen on my work computer, a Macbook Pro, has died for a 2nd time. The first time, I sent it to Apple as we had no local Apple Authorized Service Center, and they returned it to me with my high-quality third party RAM in a bag, along with a message that the screen problems [...]

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