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A few days with the iPhone and a battery complaint
2007-07-10 03:58:00
First, a serious whine which is that I think my iPhone battery is not going to last even 300 charges. The iPhone not only feels a little hot to the touch, but today I was using it as an iPod for a few hours, with wifi turned off and checking email once in a while ...
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iPhone Safari User Agent
2007-07-07 03:19:00
Because you all knew I would post this…The iPhone User Agent Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/1A543a Safari /419.3 Tech norati Tags: iPhone, Apple, iPhone User Agent, User Agents
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I am blogging this from the iPhone
2007-07-07 02:58:00
Oh boy this is so different than I thought it would be. The cool factor for me is the mini multi-communicator aspect. Technorati Tags: iPhone, Apple
More About: Iphone , General , Blogging , Blogg

iPhone Friday Update (one week from launch)
2007-07-07 00:48:00
I am a happy camper in that my iPhone ordered through AT&T came today via FedEx. Originally I was told at the AT&T store last Friday that I would have to return to the store to pick up the phone, which is now obviously not true. I’m in the middle of unboxing as I write ...
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No iPhone for me, AT&T store ran out of 8GB models
2007-06-30 03:20:00
Yup. I am just a little bummed. I was 55th in line (got there around 5:30pm) at the local AT&T store in Exton, PA and by the time the part of the line I was in got to the front, they had already run out of 8GB iPhones and a bunch of people either left ...
More About: Models , Iphone , Tech , Store

Good Friday iPhone post #1
2007-06-29 12:01:00
Ok, so it is Friday , the Friday, where we can finally get our hands on the iPhone…. or some of us can, at least… The most amusing commentary (with terrible religious overtones) I’ve heard so far was someone calling it “Good ” Friday since the Jesus phone is coming. As for me, I will be at the ...
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chinashch referrer
2007-06-28 04:27:00
Has anyone else seen this? This referrer is kind of strange in that the IP address belongs to AOL, but if you browse directly to the base IP address, you get what looks to be some sort of portal page for a Chinese TV network and the /advice.php page doesn’t work at all. The whois ...
More About: Internet , Ferr , Refer

Fooky This
2007-06-23 18:06:00
Fooky is a new search engine that is trying to poise itself within the search engine market with guns blazing. I have to give them props though, instead of just being yet another indexing service, they are trying to force a little change in Web Marketing, including offering a PDF on what they consider Web ...
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Someone touched an iPhone?
2007-06-22 18:27:00
or at least someone, a non-Apple, non AT&T civilian has written a post on how he got to use an iPhone for a few minutes. One…More…Week! Update: Link to the Guided iPhone tour that was in today’s Apple email. And as a marketer, I will keep the clickthrough tracking that Apple oh so helpfully appended to the ...
More About: Iphone , Tech , Ouch , Some

quick and dirty network tools
2007-06-21 04:39:00
Ever since DNSStuff went to a membership/paid model, I’ve been looking for a replacement of the quick and dirty network tools they offer. (And yes, I do know that I can already do some of what DNSStuff does via the command line. I just like having these things available in a browser tab for some ...
More About: Internet , Tools , Network , Dirty , Quick

Buh-Bye Microsoft Office 2003
2007-06-19 22:09:00
By chance today, I happened to catch this MSDN blog article announcing the official End of Life of Microsoft Office 2003. Yup. What it means is that Office 2003 will not be sold by Microsoft after June 30, 2007. So if you’re part of an organization which has standardized on 2003 and weren’t planning to ...
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Philadelphia Wi-Fi Update
2007-06-18 02:11:00
In an article on Philly.com today, there was an update on the Philadelphia municipal Wi-Fi project that is being built and soon to be deployed fully, starting in July 07. The system will provide outdoor and indoor access, and while you need to have a wireless capable computer, for guaranteed indoor service an EarthLink supplied ...
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fofRedux
2007-06-17 20:30:00
From the sourceforge page, FeedOnFeeds-Redu x (FoFRedux) is a continuation of the popular, but stagnated FeedOnFeeds project. FoFRedux provides a simple, yet effective browser-based news aggregator. Agent: fofRedux/0.3.x (+http://fofredux.sourceforge.net/) Also, I know who you are… Hi Harald! Tech norati Tags: RSS, RSS Reader, RSS aggregator
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E-Commerce Update 6/17/07
2007-06-17 18:53:00
Two stories from the E-commerce world that I thought were interesting. The first story from today’s NY Times alarmingly discusses the fact that E-commerce growth has slowed greatly in the past year. E-commerce as a whole will only be about 5% of total retail sales and is expected to grow to about 7%. This trend does ...
More About: Internet , Update , Commerce , E-Commerce , Comm

Mac OS X Web hosting
2007-06-17 02:43:00
I hadn’t realized it, but there are companies which provide Mac OS X based Web hosting, aside from Apple’s consumer oriented .Mac service. Tech norati Tags: Mac OS X, Web Hosting
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Linked for Email Deliverability
2007-06-14 05:29:00
A Yahoo Email Deli verability post was linked to on an article on the Electronic Frontier Foundation Web site. From the search engine referrals I still see today, people are still having issues with Yahoo deliverabilty, mainly small and medium sized organizations. And while Yahoo has been the backer of such initiatives like the now to ...
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I have a date on 6/29/07 at 6pm
2007-06-13 03:55:00
for this. Related: What are the odds that I will be able to keep my current phone number? Tech norati Tags: Apple, Mac, iPhone, fangirlism, the local Cingular store is just down the street

The Machine is Us/ing Us
2007-05-17 06:13:00
It is very rare that I’d link to a YouTube video, but this is one of those rare times. A beautifully produced history and explanation of the Internet and the implications for the future, all done by an anthropology professor at Kansas State University. Technorati Tags: The Mach ine is Us/ing Us, the Internet, ...
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Didier?s Drive-by AdWords
2007-05-12 18:13:00
Earlier this week, Didier Stevens gave me a heads up on an experiment (if you could call it that) he performed using Google AdWords. You see, a few weeks ago there was a story written by Brian Krebs at the Washington Post which revealed that Google AdWords was being used as a vector to infect ...
More About: Internet , Drive , Adwords

Apple Store Chile
2007-05-12 01:26:00
Well, kinda. There aren’t official Apple stores in Chile , but there are Apple resellers. Thanks, Bert! Update: More information about MacOnline in Chile at ifoAppleStore . Tech norati Tags: Apple, Mac, Apple Store, Chile, Apple Reseller, Mac Online
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Google Referrer Using Redirect
2007-05-02 01:25:00
So, just in the past couple of days, I started seeing the referrer URLs from Google .com in the following format. http://www.google.com/url?q=http://clever hack.com/category/tech/page/3/&sa=D&# 38;usg=AFrqEzf8B4L3sqq1hwGNYSLtBbO9HB8P3g What’s unique about the referrer URL is that it’s a redirect and my logs are showing the incoming search term as http://cleverhack.com/category/tech/page/ 3/ from Google, which doesn’t seem right at all. In a perfect world you’d ...
More About: Internet , Tech , Sing , Ferr

Apple Laptop Battery Issues, or as we might say, ?recall?
2007-04-29 04:05:00
I was browsing the news sites today, and stumbled upon this wire article mentioning Apple battery issues, I just had to take a look. Apparently MacBooks and MacBook Pros manufactured between Feb 2006 and April 2007 could be affected by the problems - which are said to be underperforming batteries, but could include batteries that ...
More About: Laptop , Battery , Tech , Issues

Idiot spammer
2007-04-27 08:06:00
Idiot spammer trying to use my domain as a reply-to address. Interesting things to note about this bounce message. This looks like some sort of mess up on the spammer’s part since the headers are riddled with html tags and spaces in the email addresses, which is probably due in part to whatever email harvester ...
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Trash it and start over
2007-04-14 21:24:00
A layman’s explanation of the “trash present Internet architecture and start over” body of thought. Technorati Tags: Internet, Web, Routers, it’s a series of tubes, the tubes are clogged
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uncov Web 2.0
2007-04-14 21:18:00
Marjolein turned me onto uncov, a group blog with some pithy, informed, jaundiced analysis about the pure promotional and technological goofiness of Web 2.0 from a developer’s view. (Well, I don’t know that they are developers, but they sure sound like them.) It’s a really good, giggly (if I may say so myself) from the ...
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gum
2007-04-10 01:39:00
Does anyone know how to get gum (yes, chewing gum) off of an iMac display without ruining the display? I have a feeling peanut butter won’t work. Technorati Tags: iMac display

music track names
2007-04-02 01:12:00
Oh, boy this is an oldie but goodie kind of question… I’m dorking around with my music collection when I realize that I’ve got tracks with no album or artist info. I’m trying to import this all into iTunes where, of course, I can’t grab CCDB info because a number of these are compilations. Any ideas ...
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And what did I accomplish today?
2007-03-18 23:23:00
Why I was motivated to perfect my desktop setup here at casa de cleverhack and plug in the external monitor I bought a way while back to the MacBook Pro. This time around, the MacBook Pro’s video card handles the LCD beautifully with the DVI to VGA adapter. I am stoked. The image below is ...
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Sunday Morning roundup
2007-03-18 15:28:00
Miscellaneous links for your Sunday morning clicking pleasure… -Here’s an insighful up and coming Mac blog - from the eyes of a technically savvy switcher. -Viciously mocking the Web 2.0. -Marjolein Hoekstra created OnePipe, a browser bookmarklet created to filter any feed by topic. -Explode is a much talked about blogging community site, much talked about because it’s not ...
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Ding Dong! Visual FoxPro is (nearly) dead!
2007-03-17 18:34:00
Kind of not surprised to learn that Microsoft has finally announced an EOL for that “more robust than Access ever will be” database language Visual FoxPro. This does not surprise me as all of the FoxPro programmers I’ve known are a bit older than myself. Technorati Tags: Microsoft VisualFoxPro, database programming, old ...
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