Well you can't let people do just anything with their computers!
It took just a week for nearly 300 students who got iPads from their LA high school to figure out how to alter the security settings so they could surf the Web and access social media sites.The breach...
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Mobile web design: The reign of morons, indeed.
If you are Esquire's web designer, please find another career.Stop. Stop hurting the internet.I am still constantly amazed at the level user-hostility -- actually outright contempt -- in mobile web...
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XScreenSaver 5.23
XScreenSaver 5.23 out now, including for iOS.I think that at this point, all of the OSX savers should be just as fast as their X11 equivalents. XCopyArea has finally been beaten in to submission,...
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Is Passbook worth my time?
Or is it another monument to uselessness like QR codes are?I noticed that a few event-ticketing companies are now sending out Passbook attachments with their tickets. I'd never seen one in the wild...
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10.9
Why did they name it this??I upgraded from MacOS 10.8.3 to 10.9. I didn't want to, but it was bound to be necessary eventually.Pro tip: if you want to do a clean install, but don't want to spend 48...
View ArticleSocial Turkers
Lauren McCarthy:What if we could receive real-time feedback on our social interactions? Would unbiased third party monitors be better suited to interpret situations and make decisions for the parties...
View ArticlePSA: Back Up Your Shit.
Here in this modern world, you talk to your friends over all kinds of different media: SMS, Facebook, Twitter DMs, GChat, and maybe even AIM if you're really old. These conversations aren't ephemeral...
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"Dear Subscriber", Indeed.
Ominous Text Message Sent to Protesters in Kiev Sends Chills Around the InternetProtesters and journalists standing in the vicinity of fighting between the riot police and demonstrators in Kiev on...
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Full MAME emulator for non-jailbroken iOS
Gridlee: Get it before it's gone.Gridlee is a freeware arcade game from 1982 which was re-released on the iTunes App Store by David Loureiro. This would have been unremarkable, if Gridlee was a...
View ArticlePSA: Upgrade your Apple shit, seriously.
I've spoken with a few people recently who, if they were even aware of the recent Apple security bug, don't seem to appreciate the magnitude of it.It's basically the worst security bug in the history...
View ArticleStingray
Law Enforcement Agencies All Over California Have Been Secretly Using Stingray DevicesMore documents have been uncovered (via FOI requests) that show local law enforcement agencies in California have...
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Wifi Rail: Your Tax Dollars at Work
"We completely failed to deliver on our last contract, so give us another $2.5M and we'll try again."Currently, BART offers a sad excuse for WiFi through a contract with WiFi Rail. Forty-four of BART's...
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MYSTIC RETRO
NSA surveillance program reaches 'into the past' to retrieve, replay phone callsThe National Security Agency has built a surveillance system capable of recording "100 percent" of a foreign country's...
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8.6 of 2.5 MB
Well played, Apple. Well played.I let it run for a while and it actually got up to "33 of 2.5 MB" before I gave up. It did the same thing after killing and restarting Mail.The raw message was, in fact,...
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Dali Clock 2.41
Dali Clock 2.41 is out now, which only really contains some cosmetic and rotation-related changes for the iOS 7. It's in the app store now.Except -- and this is really fun, thanks, Apple! -- I believe...
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Pro tip: ducking autocorrect
Settings → General → Keyboard → Shortcuts → +Phrase: fuck Shortcut: duckPhrase: fucking Shortcut: duckingPreviously.
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Fucking Apple.
How did they manage to make the new Lightning connector even flakier and less reliable than the 30-pin?? These cables are bullshit.
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javascript gallery swipe-right rocket surgery
How do I make page-swiping work properly in the DNA Lounge photo galleries? Go to any photo page and swipe left or right on your phone. It goes to the next or previous image, but it kinda sucks. I'd...
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Snitch is needy.
Lying in a field in the dark, I roll over and my pocket starts screaming NO INTERNET, NO INTERNET out loud. Siri, you are yappy like a needy puppy.
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javascript gallery swipe-right rocket surgery, redux
Hey, swiping left/right to navigate through the DNA Lounge photo galleries on phones is more better now and stuff. Let me know if you find any problems. dragnav.js.Previously.
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