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Mobile Platform Advertisement – An Observation

maximz2005 — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 05:59:25 +0000

If you’ve watched TV, or gone on YouTube, for that matter, any time recently, you’ve no doubt seen at least one iPhone ad, and possibly even a T-Mobile MyTouch 3G (Android) one. Well, if not, they’re below for your viewing pleasure (um, maybe not). The goal of this article is to analyze two of these ads [...]

Tinkering with iTunes, Again :(

maximz2005 — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 06:37:36 +0000

Gosh, iTunes annoys and confuses me. As of today, I have the feeling that it’s doing the same thing to itself. iTunes is reporting that to fully sync with my iTouch it will have to erase the data on the iTouch because it was synced with another library. First of all, I don’t remember syncing my [...]

“Mac or PC” – Oh Really?

maximz2005 — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 23:29:31 +0000

I get asked this question by so many people that I’m tired of having to repeat myself all the time. It’s commonly phrased something like, “What’s the difference between Mac and PC?” or “How do you compare the two operating systems?” Well, the answer is quite simple. You can’t. Why can’t you compare the two? Well, because [...]

Welcome to TechReevu!

maximz2005 — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 05:28:23 +0000

I’m pleased to announce TechReevu, a new venture from my friends at the Morontown Group. They are creating a tech blog, which they have asked me to contribute to. As I take it, the blog isn’t targeted to compete with awesome ones like Gizmodo (FTW!), no… the goal of TechReevu is to provide tech updates [...]

StackOverflow Trilogy Stickers Have Arrived

maximz2005 — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 23:29:23 +0000

The League of Justice (i.e. the StackOverflow trilogy) stickers arrived today in the mail! YAY YAY YAY! Somehow or other, there were two StackOverflow stickers, along with a ServerFault and SuperUser one, in my envelope, when there should have been only three total, but this is awesome! I will post pictures of the stickers soon! Posted [...]

The iPhone Configuration Utility 2.0 – a Great Diagnostic Tool

maximz2005 — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 17:41:56 +0000

I was surfing around on SuperUser today, and found a mention to a tool from Apple that I hadn’t heard of before. It’s called the iPhone Configuration Utility, which allows you to examine logs from your iPhone or iPod Touch, to apply configuration and provisioning profiles, and more. The tool is very interesting! [Download: Windows|Mac] Posted in [...]

Querying the StackOverflow Data Dump Online with StatOverflow

maximz2005 — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 17:26:04 +0000

Every month, StackOverflow, the brilliant and completely open question and answer site for programmers, releases a Creative-Commons licensed dump of their database. You can download this huge dump yourself, but it’s typically a very large file, and then comes the hassle of getting the XML files into a database of your choice. Now, there is [...]

Ordering StackOverflow Trilogy Stickers!

maximz2005 — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 21:00:54 +0000

On Tuesday, the awesome guys at Stack Overflow finally gave us addicted users a chance to receive some trilogy stickers! A few weeks ago, they received their order of 40,000 StackOverflow, ServerFault, SuperUser, and How-To Geek stickers, and now, if users send in a self-addressed stamped envelope, they will find some sitting in their mailbox [...]

(Almost) Destroying Explorer.exe, AGAIN

maximz2005 — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 08:07:12 +0000

Today, somehow or other, I stumbled upon the distributed processing app called GIGRIB. Developed by Pingdom, “Pingdom GIGRIB is a unique, distributed website monitoring service. GIGRIB users can add websites they want monitored, and in return their computers become a part of the GIGRIB monitoring network.” So, I fired it up, inputed the domains I wanted [...]

Google’s 11th Birthday As a Company is Tomorrow

maximz2005 — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 01:14:02 +0000

Tomorrow, the 4th of September, marks the 11th year passed since the founding of the Google corporation, one of the most influential technology companies in the world. In 1998 on this very day, Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded the company in Menlo Park, California, to promote the search engine they had developed as a research project. Here’s to many more years [...]