January 2010
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A Better Birthdays Calendar
OS X, since 10.4, has an option to automatically maintain a birthday calendar in iCal showing all of your contacts’ birthdays. Unfortunately, turning it on is its only configurable option. This is unfortunate because I personally need an audible or visual alert telling me of all the days’ birthdays. Also, this automatic calendar is a local calendar, meaning that we can’t use it...
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Flyosity: The iPad Is For Everyone But Us →
Exactly.
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Using Snow Leopard Server to enable MSN in iChat
Snow Leopard Server includes an iChat server which supports the use of plug-in transports enabling users to connect to other instant messaging networks, like MSN, thereby enabling iChat users to speak to contacts on the MSN network as well as have multiple machines logged into the same MSN account at the same time. Here’s how to set it up…
History
When Apple first released their...
First and 20 (Properly)
So, last entry I posted a pic of my iPhone home screen. In hindsight, it’s a bit self-serving, possibly the modern digital equivalent of posting what I had for breakfast. But that being said, I’ve always found value in looking at others’ home screens, a concept introduced to me by the site First and 20. The problem is that App Store is such a hodge podge, mishmap of 99c crap,...
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Momento - Diary writing for iPhone and iPod touch →
This app looks beautiful. I used to keep a journal and would love to do so again. Hopefully, this will help motivate me to do so. Regardless, it’s nice to have a historical view of all of the status updates I’ve posted to Facebook and Twitter.
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eBay.com.au is Broken For iPhones
Update March 9, 2010: It looks like this has been fixed.
eBay has been know to invoke thoughts of suicide or murderous rage for a variety of reasons, whether it be the way they run their auction site or the way they run their subsidiaries, like PayPal and Skype. Unfortunately, two of my consumer hobbies require me to regularly use eBay for the purposes of buying and selling.
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Credit Card Trickery
Recently, TF Source was in the press due to a breach of their security. This was discovered by the fact that many of their customers found unidentified charges on their credit cards. As most of their customers were all members of the same internet community, the parallels were quickly made and TF Source was identified as the source of the breach. Being a member of the TF community, as well as a...