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Archive for May, 2009
Business as usual
31 May 2009Over the past couple of years, I have been able to tolerate Microsoft a bit more than I used to. When your primary income relies on people purchasing Exchange and OCS accounts that you provide the back end provisioning and automation for, you quickly realize where your bread is buttered. [...]
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- Tags: Microsoft, Security, Stupid People
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In: Cool Videos
30 May 2009This guy has way too much time on his hands. But still impressive that he was able to get everything to work seeing as the hardware is 45 years old.
iPhone 3.0 Beta 5 – update
In: Apple
29 May 2009So far things are still going good. The part that was a bit rough was that when the restore image is used and the phone reboots…its like having a virgin iPhone again. Luckily you can restore your settings from a backup. But man that takes a while to re-install all of [...]
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- Tags: Apple, iPhone SDK
iPhone 3.0 Beta 5
In: Apple
28 May 2009For a while now I have been an officially licensed iPhone developer. I haven’t had all the time in the world that I originally hoped for to develop various applications. But slowly I have been starting to make a little headway on an idea that a buddy of mine had. [...]
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- Tags: iPhone SDK
The iPhone ad that will never air
In: Apple| Cool Videos
27 May 2009All credit goes to Brent for pointing this one out to me. You can follow his twitter feed at @bbierstedt
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- Tags: iphone
Warranty Robo Calls!
In: Spam
15 May 2009Is anyone else receiving the warranty robo calls? I am. And I even complained about it to the FTC since my number is on the do-not-call list. I have received 2 calls and filled out the necessary paper work to file a complaint. The follow up on my filing, [...]
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- Tags: Robo Calls, Spam
IgniteIT Talk
In: Cool Videos| Tips & Tricks
14 May 2009About a month ago I gave a lightning talk at a local IgniteIT Event. I haven’t done a lot of public speaking so I was a bit nervous going in. But the people that I was with stated that the talk I gave was pretty good. I assumed they had been [...]
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- Tags: IgniteIT, Inbox Zero, Talks
The Science Behind the Gilmour Swing
In: Cool Videos
2 May 2009A good time waster for your Saturday morning.
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- Tags: Golf, Science, Time Waster
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