My Phone WANTS Me to Text and Drive
While I was driving to work today, my pants pocket buzzed. “Incoming,” my iPhone nudged, and then awaited my response. And I knew my iPhone wasn’t going to tell me again, whatever the message,...
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Everything’s broken and nobody’s upset /via @shanselman
Everything’s broken and nobody’s upset: Here’s the worst part, I didn’t spend any time on the phone with anyone about these issues. I didn’t file bugs, send support tickets or email teams. Instead, I...
Fixing Wireless in Linux, and Why This Should Matter to Apple
In this post, I talked about my travails getting my son’s USB wireless adapter working in Linux. A few weeks later, it stopped working. Puzzling. I opened a terminal and ran: lsusb The computer...
Good Job Apple, You (Screwed) the World – (by @baekdal)
Good Job Apple, You (Screwed) the World – (by @baekdal): The idea that one company can own non-inventions is absolutely appalling to me. (Via Baekdal.com) Nails it. Yes, Samsung was lazy and unoriginal and...
More on Wang Ting — the copyright infringer swiping apps and selling them on the App Store
More on Wang Ting: It’s frustrating that Apple has no problem playing gatekeeper and keeping apps out of the store for the most trivial and arbitrary of reasons, but won’t play gatekeeper when presented...
How to turn an upset customer into a happy customer
How to turn an upset customer into a happy customer: To be generous and giving means a few people will take advantage of your kindness, but this shouldn’t stop you. Everything, even a complaint,...
The 100 Top Rated Amazon Items /via @macdrifter
The 100 Top Rated Amazon Items [Link]: My Amazon login experience is starting feel like walking past a cell phone reseller booth in a mall. (Via Macdrifter) One person’s cut at a different sort...
Great work Visa, now I hate you
Great work Visa, now I hate you: If you want people to like you, give them something. If you want people to hate you, take something away from them. (Via Hacker News) Sage advice....
XOXCO – Is it time for password-less login?
XOXCO – Is it time for password-less login?: “I think an even better solution would be to remove the password completely, allowing users to login with only an email address. Each time a user...
Mom Charged With Hacking School Computers to Change Children’s Grades – ABC News
Mom Charged With Hacking School Computers to Change Children’s Grades – ABC News: She has been accused of changing her daughter’s failing grade from an F to an M for “medical” in June 2010,...