January 2009
Working with a robot: Drobo in action →
Filed under: Hardware, Peripherals, Mac OS X Server
We’ve talked about the Data Robotics Drobo storage solution here on TUAW a few times, but there hasn’t been a hands-on review of…
Don’t think privacy, think identity →
The digital availability of social information has lead many to think it’s a crisis of privacy. It is not; it is a crisis of identity management. Designers of online profiles should think about…
Morning Coffee, Google Street View by... →
Morning Coffee, Google Street View by veen (Former Google employee) Jeff Veen, waves to the Google camera van as he enjoys his morning coffee. Awesome.
PwnageTool and QuickPwn updated, compatible with... →
Filed under: iPhone, iPod touch, Jailbreak/pwnage
Early this morning the iPhone Dev-Team announced the impending availability of the latest release of PwnageTool and QuickPwn….
Bacon Explosion: The BBQ Sausage Recipe of all... →
SEAmail: Applying Semantic Technology to Email →
A prototype email system being developed at Stanford University is designed to bring the power of semantic technology to our inbox. Called SEAmail, short for “semantic email addressing,” the…
A Single Reddit Screen Cap Shows Why Our World Is... →
Major storage vendors agree to disk encryption... →
We’ve seen quite a few hardware-encrypted disks hit the scene lately, but to be honest, we’ve always thought they were a risky investment, since all the systems were proprietary — we…
Sony’s 4th quarter net profit dropped 95 percent,... →
Sony didn’t have a great fourth quarter of 2008 to say the least. The company saw profits vanish over 2007, recording only a 10.4 billion yen verses 200.2 billion yen. The cause? You and…
“Adams urged the printers on. Do not, he told them, “suffer yourselves to be...”
– Back Issues: A Critic at Large: The New Yorker
“No recent inaugural has been as keenly anticipated as Obama’s. On the...”
– Jonathan Raban: How did Obama’s inaugural speech shape up? | World news | The Guardian
“The words of most inaugurals would sound insane if spoken quietly, indoors; and...”
– Jonathan Raban: How did Obama’s inaugural speech shape up? | World news | The Guardian
Rob Griffiths Reviews Eight Third-Party iPhone Web... →
Interesting that Apple is now allowing them in the store, but none seem particularly useful yet.
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Linux keeps dying →
Hey guys! Guess what! It’s another post about how Windows is kicking the crap out of Linux! Robin Harris over at ZDNet asserts that “Microsoft has kicked Linux to the curb, claiming an 80%…
Ontario NDP vow to fight end to strike →
Hampton plans to delay back to work legislation that would end York U. strike and allow 50,000 students back to classrooms
“And although the trial isn’t yet underway, the proceedings have already...”
– RIAA seeks sanctions against Harvard Law School prof - Ars Technica
Iceland's government collapses →
Prime minister says coalition has fallen due to country’s financial crisis.
Iceland's government collapses →
Prime minister says coalition has fallen due to country’s financial crisis.
York U. strike likely to end this week →
The strike at Toronto’s York University will continue for at least a few more days.
Two new trojan horses threaten Mac software... →
Tens of thousands of users who’ve downloaded pirated versions of iWork ‘09 or Photoshop CS4 may have opened their Macs to remote attacks from malicious users.
What's So Bad About Socialism Anyway? →
Just like they don’t really know what the Che T-shirt means, Generation O doesn’t really care if you call them or their new president socialist. They want answers beyond the message.
“It’s totally unsurprising, then, that the first New York Times’ Sunday Styles...”
– The Smart Set: Licorice Whipped - January 23, 2009
Playboy: The Hugh Hefner Story | n+1 →
“Pubic hair diminishes as the nineties draw to a close. Neat triangles turn to Band Aid-sized strips, which become little Hitler mustaches or nothing at all. The modern crotch is a bit prim, a bit less forthright. You’d think that depilation would lend a youthful look to the genitals but it has the opposite effect instead, making the girls look older and slightly jaded. (Intimate...
Poe at 200 - January 6, 2009 →
"SCRIPT & SCRIBBLE": IN DEFENCE OF PENMANSHIP →
“As I worked on “Script and Scribble” I was introduced to the phenomenon of Italic writing, which is based on the beautiful, elegant, and far from fussy hand devised by writing masters in 16th-century Italy. It’s a flexible and far from difficult system that allows for individual quirks and preferences, that encourages linking letters when they need to be linked and printing them...
“John Coates at Cambridge’s Judge Business School produced some fascinating...”
– Madeleine Bunting: The appetite for vengeance over the banking crisis | Comment is free | The Guardian
Study Sees an Obama Effect as Lifting Black... →
$200 Laptops Break a Business Model - NYTimes.com →
in the PC industry is netbooks. Analysts at the Gartner research company said shipments rose to 4.4
“Also Sunday, a Toronto law firm said it has filed a class-action lawsuit in the...”
– TheStar.com | GTA | York students launch lawsuit, NDP stalls bill
Bluetooth file transfer for iPhone coming? →
You’ll need a jailbroken iPhone for this but it appears that a developer called MeDevil is hot on the trail of facilitating Bluetooth file transfers between the iPhone and other compatible…
Sony teams with NetLibrary to offer digital... →
Sony is continuing to market it’s reader to more and more outlets. That’s only good for e-books as a whole.
In addition to the deal with Harlequin, Sony just announced a collaboration…
iLife '09 Now Shipping →
Several MacRumors readers are reporting that their orders for iLife ‘09, which had been announced at MacWorld as scheduled for a late January release, have been shipped.
iLife ‘09 brings major…
NDP delays legislation to end York University... →
Ontario’s New Democrats have stalled the provincial government’s bid to legislate an end to the York University strike.
Relive the Inauguration in 3D Photo Style... →
We’ve shown you how to make 3D photo panoramas with Microsoft Photosynth, but CNN put the very cool app to excellent use yesterday with The Moment, a Photosynth-powered look at the moment…
App Store Browses the iTunes Store Without iTunes... →
Opening iTunes and checking something in its store isn’t always a quick, memory-friendly task. For previewing apps, browsing music and podcasts, or otherwise scoping purchases without iTunes,…
iWork '09 trojan infects at least 20,000... →
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First real OS X vulnerability!?
Quite a number of no-goodniks who thought they’d save a few bucks by downloading a pirated version of iWork ‘09 have gotten more than…
Relive the Inauguration in 3D Photo Style... →
We’ve shown you how to make 3D photo panoramas with Microsoft Photosynth, but CNN put the very cool app to excellent use yesterday with The Moment, a Photosynth-powered look at the moment…
Relive the Inauguration in 3D Photo-Style... →
We’ve shown you how to make 3D photo panoramas with Microsoft Photosynth, but CNN put the very cool app to excellent use yesterday with The Moment, a Photosynth-powered look at the moment…
The Day Live Web Video Streaming Failed Us →
Yesterday was supposed to be the day that live Web video streaming took on TV broadcasting. CNN.com alone served a record 21.3 million streams, with a peak of 1.3 million simultaneous…
App Store Browses the iTunes Store Without iTunes... →
Opening iTunes and checking something in its store isn’t always a quick, memory-friendly task. For previewing apps, browsing music and podcasts, or otherwise scoping purchases without iTunes,…
Director accidentally shoots actor during play... →
Real-life tragedy nearly struck at a Florida theatre on Monday night, when an actor fired a live gun at a cast member’s head.
During rehearsals for an amateur production of John Steinbeck’s…
“In their response to the CRTC investigation, Bell, Cogeco, Rogers and Eastlink...”
– All Major Canadian ISPs Slow Down P2P Traffic | TorrentFreak
All Major Canadian ISPs Slow Down P2P Traffic |... →
Palm Pre: everything you ever wanted to know -... →
Pictures: President Obama’s inauguration, as seen... →
People look like iron fillings. Weird.
LastPass Autocompletes Logins and Forms in Chrome,... →
Windows/Mac/Linux: Previously mentioned LastPass—which adds web-based autocomplete for logins and forms with Firefox and Internet Explorer add-ons—has created several new bookmarklets to…
Obama sworn in as President of Gaza →
Three things are evident in the editorial coverage of the Israel/Hamas ceasefire: 1) There is undeniable innuendo that the glory of Obama’s inauguration caused the tanks and rockets to fall…
Apple drops anti-piracy measures from iWork '09 →
Apple has dropped serial number verification in the new retail version of iWork 09, making the revised office suite simply “just work” for new users who have purchased it.
LastPass Autocompletes Logins and Forms in Chrome,... →
Previously mentioned LastPass—which adds web-based autocomplete for logins and forms with Firefox and Internet Explorer add-ons—has created several new bookmarklets to support auto-fill…
Can a Small Business Migrate Smoothly To... →
Pay The Piper writes “As an IT Support Technician in a small corporation, I’ve been tasked by one of my managers to determine the feasibility of transitioning our small 40 or 50 person office from…