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RoomScan
This is pretty neat:It doesn't seem to be super accurate, but this would have come in really handy last year when I was building my 3d DNA Lounge model.
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Best iOS Tetris?
Dear Lazyweb, what's your favorite Tetris for iOS? I've tried a bunch and they all suck in one way or another (by being not-quite-Tetris, or having a wasteful screen layout, or being full of ads). I...
View Articlemore Xcode certificate clusterfuckery
Dear Lazyweb,My phone started nagging me that my provisioning profiles for XScreenSaver and DaliClock were about to expire. I went and tithed another hundred bucks to Apple for the privilege of running...
View ArticleiOS version skew
Dear Lazyweb,I have code that does: NSXMLParser *xmlDoc = [[NSXMLParser alloc] initWithContentsOfURL:furl]; [xmlDoc parse]; Running on iOS 6, this works. Running on iOS 5, the parse call destroys the...
View ArticleYo, Let's Text For a While And Then Maybe Hook Up
"Hey! Exclamation point! Sorry, an excuse happened." Messages Edit Hey! Exclamation point! It's my name. From that social gathering where we met within the past week. Third draft of a flirty joke...
View ArticleCost to Store All US Phonecalls Made in a Year in Cloud Storage so it could...
Brewster Kahle:Because of recent news reports, I wanted to cross check the cost feasibility of the NSA's recording all of the US phonecalls and processing them.These estimates show only $27M in capital...
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Put a gear on it!
3D printed iPhone cases with working gears:Previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously.
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Google Reader Apocalypse Extremely Fucking Nigh
Those dicks at Google are shutting off Reader at the end of the week, and the world is in a mad tizzy trying to find a feed reader that will continue to function.First a word on why it is stultifyingly...
View ArticleRSS Apocalypse Update: Newsify
I've been using the Newsify iPad/iPhone reader app today and it's pretty good! It uses the Feedly servers but is much better than the Feedly app.Good: Lets me use light text on a dark background. Has...
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Dali Clock 2.38
Dali Clock 2.38 is out now.I fixed a few preferences-related bugs, and most importantly, I think I figured out the build options so that the binaries should work on any Intel Mac from 10.5 and onward....
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XScreenSaver 5.22
XScreenSaver 5.22 out now, including for iOS.I wrote a few new ones this time! It's been a while. There are also a bunch of bug fixes.In particular, I think that the OSX binaries should run on any...
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The Apple 'Kill List'
What Your iPhone Doesn't Want You to TypeOur analysis found over 14,000 words that are recognized as words when spelled accurately, but that won't be corrected even when they are only slightly...
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Dali Clock 2.39
Dali Clock 2.39 is out now, including the iOS version.Didn't I just do this? Yes, but of course as soon as I released the previous version, someone sent me "Oh yeah, I've been meaning to report this"...
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Oh noes, Apple has patented Big Brother
Facebook is blowing up with re-posts of several halfassed link-bait articles claiming that Apple has patented the ability to make your phone be unable to take pictures of cops.I know it's too much work...
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GPS Gone Wild
Does anyone have a theory for why some the photos I posted yesterday from Golden Gate Park have EXIF data that says they were taken in Toronto or Brooklyn?% exiftool photo-848.jpg... GPS Altitude: 82.3...
View ArticleLes Nessman reporting:
Twenty hurt at LG event as promotional stunt goes wrongTwenty people were injured, with seven sent to hospital, when a promotional stunt in Seoul for LG's G2 smartphone went wrong, the company has...
View ArticleOh good, RSS spam.
Either Feedly or Newsify (I don't know which) has begun inserting "sponsored posts" "ads" spam into my RSS feed.Is there still no better iOS alternative to this bullshit?Previously, previously.
View ArticleiOS 7 and iTunes 10
Dear Lazyweb:Am I correct in assuming that if I upgrade my phone to iOS 7, it will demand that I upgrade my desktop to iTunes 11 in order to sync my music or do a local, non-iCloud backup?I'm still...
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Chaos Computer Club breaks Apple TouchID
Unsurprisingly, that didn't take long.The biometrics hacking team of the Chaos Computer Club (CCC) has successfully bypassed the biometric security of Apple's TouchID using easy everyday means. A...
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