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My blog covers a variety of topics and interests. As I see what the interest is on specific subjects or arcticles I'll narrow it down. My blog will mostly cover geeky topics, anything from computers, to politics to video games.
Finally, you can transfer files to/from your iPhone via USB
Published: 3:27am August 11th, 2010
I just noticed with the current iTunes, and maybe with iOS 4 but not sure if it's dependent on that, that you can use iTunes to transfer files to/from your iPhone if you have a file sharing app installed. Woohoo! It seems a bit limited, since you can seem to browse folders on the phone only the top level, but at least you can do the transfers right there in iTunes over the USB cable.
Mobile Safari Background Image Scaling Quirk
Published: 3:46pm May 27th, 2010
Updated: 12:55pm June 8th, 2010
Mobile Safari on the iPhone, iPod and iPad does a great job of scaling websites to fit the viewport, including scaling of CSS background images. It does result in some minor visual artifacts (often thin lines at the edges of images), but all in all makes full websites very usable.
However, I discovered a strange quirk on a site I am currently working on and how to work around it, so I thought I would detail my findings here.
Dr. Who Theme Performed on Twin Tesla Coils
Published: 3:30am June 1st, 2010
Updated: 3:36am June 1st, 2010
Dooood! Sweeeeet! This is by far the coolest thing I have seen in a while. Thanks to Geeks are Sexy for bringing it to my attention (original post).
How Twilight Works
Published: 4:17pm May 27th, 2010
Yes this has been posted all over the place in various different formats and many of you have probably already read or seen videos of this. But Geeks are Sexy were good enough to post this and I wanted to make sure it gets repeated to everyone I know as well.
New Google Phone Whispers Targeted Ads in Your Ear
Published: 2:24am May 27th, 2010
I don't usually watch the Onion as I generally find it a bit over the top ludicrous and not all that funny, but this is a good one: