Doc Searls Weblog · Flight hackers guide (8)
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I fly a lot, and I’m delayed a lot, including now, sitting in the terminal at Santa Barbara (waiting to take a redeye that will land me in Boston at dawn tomorrow). So I’ll take a few minutes to share some of what I’ve learned along the way. First, dig FlightAware. Not the best UI, but a very handy resource. It was via FlightAware that I found that my plane wasn’t only “delayed” (as the ...
6 Answers About Telecommuting (7)
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As we’ve recently discussed, telecommuting and web work are becoming more popular. Inevitably, this leads to some backlash from those who prefer to preserve old ways of working. One example: a recent article in Computerworld titled “Get tough on telecommuting: 6 questions to ask before you say yes.” While caution is a good thing, we think there are answers to all of these questions - and we’ll present them here to help you with your ...
Why Amazon’s EBS Should Worry Data Centers (27)
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Amazon has announced Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS), a persistent storage offering that can be used in tandem with applications using the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). With this move, it is turning up the heat on everyone from storage area network vendors, server companies and of course data center operators. Don’t be surprised if the company starts attracting corporations using its suite of web services. Amazon first started talking about this back in ...
Another article on Telecommuting. The Ugly, The Bad and The Good (1)
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Computer World has an article about Telecommuting . So, I thought I’d chip in my inflated $0.02. Telecommuting, doesn’t mean working from home. This is one of the biggest myths, and truths people will realize over time. What makes me such an expert? I’ve been telecommuting for the past 3 years, straight, full time. I’m not talking about moonlighting, and doing part time work for companies who post on craigslist. I’m talking multi million dollar ...
TUAW Tip: Using your iPhone on a cruise ship (7)
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Filed under: Wireless, Odds and ends, iPhoneIf you're going on a cruise vacation, don't be concerned about being out of touch. Chances are excellent that you can use your cell phone.Reader Steven Madow reminded TUAW that many cruise lines use a service called Cellular At Sea to provide you with satellite-linked cellular service. Almost 100 ships currently use the service, which is a joint venture between AT&T Mobility and SeaMobile.Madow said that with his iPhone, ...
Vacationing - Laptop or No Laptop? (1)
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I openly admit I'm addicted to the Internet and my laptop. I know, I can get the Internet in lots of places without needing my laptop, but still, I like having my "baby" with me. Yes, even on vacation. A British psychologist has said that taking your laptop on vacation is stupid and can break up your family. I can understand where the guy is coming from, but that doesn't mean I'm leaving my laptop ...
How to Answer Your Kids' Existential Questions (3)
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"Mommy, Daddy...Are we real?" my daughter asked from the back seat of the car, as we made our way home. She's nearly six, and she asked this as if it were a perfectly ordinary question. "Um..." My wife and I glanced at each other and shrugged. "What do you mean, sweetheart?" I asked. She clarified: "Could we just be characters in a story?" My son, seven-and-a-half, piped up and reiterated the original question: "Yeah, are ...
note to self: salary requirements up front (1)
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Last night, I dreamed that I quit my job to return to work at my previous employer. There would be lots of ups and downs to this, the two most important of which would be that I'd be closer to home and that I'd be developing in Visual Studio and its suite of languages. I got to my office, and it was pretty high-tech. I don't remember just why, but the computer was running some ...
Does the Olympics Video Suck For You Too? (8)
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Admit it. These Olympics have been awesome so far. The mind-blowing opening ceremony. Michael Phelps. The breadth of games covered. All wrapped up in an HD bow. Too bad the online experience doesn’t even merit a bronze medal. Let’s set aside the bone-headed decision to delay the web video coverage for popular events until after the already delayed West Coast coverage. Yes, that sucks. I’m talking more about the video player. As we’ve written before, ...
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It really sucks that there's no commentary. It totally changes the watching experience in a huge way. Plus, for those of us that might've just sold their TVs, this is all we got.
Flump Exports Flickr Photos to Your Desktop [Featured Download] (86)
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Windows/Mac/Linux (Adobe AIR): Free Adobe AIR application Flump downloads all the photos from a user-specified Flickr account to your hard drive. It's a simple one-use application: You provide it with a Flickr ID or username, tell it where to save the photos, and click Start Flump. We've highlighted similar tools before, namely FlickrDown and Flickr AutoDownloadr, but Flump is the only cross-platform offering, and it's also the most no-nonsense app of the bunch—perfect for backing ...
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JPowers said:
Sweet!
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Chad said:
Hopefully this works better than the horribly broken, Java-based FlickrBackup.
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Whiz said:
Nyt tiedän mitä tehdä ku joskus saan sen verkkolevyn kotio hommattua..
How to move your iTunes library (more safely than I did) (31)
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Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Multimedia, How-tos, Tips and tricks, iTunesI should say, even before I start this post, that I've moved my iTunes library from one installation of iTunes to another, and what I did was just copy everything in the /Music/iTunes folder from one Mac to the other. But that's the transfer equivalent of parallel parking a semi and stopping when it "feels right" -- it worked for me, but I wouldn't recommend ...
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Stefan said:
Wichtig, wenn ich die itunes daten auf meine Externe Festplatte schieben möchte
Brian W. Fitzpatrick: My Other Computer is a Data Center (3)
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I was pretty happy last week when Dewitt sent me the article that Marc Benioff wrote entitled Welcome to Web 3.0: Now Your Other Computer is a Data Center. It's a good article, but the really cool part of the article was the last paragraph:One of our developers has a bumper sticker on his laptop that captures the spirit of Web 3.0 perfectly. It reads: "My other computer is a data center." That's a claim ...
The Ultimate Geek Family Vacation? (3)
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If you're a geek, you probably get a little jittery when you're away from the web for more than a couple of hours. If you have an iPhone, you've proven my point. If you don't have an iPhone, then you want one, so again my point is proven. If you don't even want an iPhone, you're not really a geek. If you're a GeekDad or GeekMom, you have probably gone on vacations with your family. ...
MobileMe Problems Show Apple Needs an Infrastructure Lesson (18)
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Steve Jobs, in an internal email seen by Ars Technica, makes clear that he’s upset about the botched launch of MobileMe, Apple’s new online suite of applications that has been plagued with bugs, including being flat-out unavailable to some for days at a time. “It was a mistake to launch MobileMe at the same time as iPhone 3G, iPhone 2.0 software and the App Store,” he says. “We all had more than enough to do, ...
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