Like many of you, growing up Neuromancer played a pivotal role in how we thought about the future and where “cyberspace” was going. Things have turned out very different. Although the underlying mass of data and consciousness is still there, it’s not the fully immersed 3D world some are still clinging to. [William Gibson], author of the seminal novel, has … Read the rest
William Gibson interviewed by io9
June 10, 2008 By 8 Comments
Wiping an iPhone (more thoroughly)
June 10, 2008 By 7 Comments
You may be hoping to subsidize the purchase of an iPhone 3G with the sale of your old one, but since you should wipe all your personal data from the old one first, we brought you [Rich Mogull]‘s method for wiping all your private data off of an iPhone. The method, which involves overwriting your data with music, is … Read the rest
Linux web development tools
June 10, 2008 By 11 Comments
Download Squad has been publishing an informative series on switching to Linux, and their latest article is about the benefits of web tools on Linux.
HTML editors like Bluefish and Quanta do not have all the features of Dreamweaver, but with many modern CMSes these features aren’t really necessary.
Other benefits include testing out web pages on your Linux … Read the rest
Location aware task tracking
June 10, 2008 By 2 Comments
With the iPhone finally getting legitimate GPS we’re bound to see more widespread use of location based apps. Services like Dodgeball, Brightkite, and a few Twitter clients have been around, but failed to tightly integrate with the hosting phone. Now we’re seeing applications that reach beyond just “finding your friends”. [Merlin Mann] directed us to the … Read the rest
WiFi telescope
June 10, 2008 By 6 Comments
We Make Money Not Art recently visited the LABoral Art and Industrial Creation Centre in Gijón, Spain. The installation that left the strongest impression on [Regine] was the WiFi sightseeing telescope built by Clara Boj and Diego Diaz. Spain is in a situation similar to the USA: A few years ago many municipal WiFi projects launched only to be squashed … Read the rest
New vs. old iPhone Apps
June 10, 2008 By 16 Comments
You’ve probably never heard of this obscure new device called the iPhone 3G from no-name manufacturer Apple, but we decided to give a rundown of some of its newest apps anyway. We’ll be comparing them to non-SDK third-party apps that only work on jailbroken iPhones.… Read the rest
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