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Category Archives: Engineering

iPhone 3G aggressive disassembly

You’ve been waiting for this new iPhone for weeks now, but have you seen it destroyed?

It evens turns into a mirror when you light it on fire, and throw it up in the air a bunch of times. (I removed the video of this because it’s a little too evil :-X)

The most stable element of [...]

The 5 most annoying Facebook bugs

You cannot upload photos with the latest copy of iPhoto.

This really makes me mad. I like to upload my photos all the time, and I can’t use the easiest method anymore. I can’t even use the ActiveX plugin either…

I am stuck with the simple uploader, which only lets you upload five at a time. This [...]

Pownce has an AIM bot

I love using Pownce, but sometimes it’s pain to open up the web browser, or fire up AIR.

I am on IM all the time, so this will be very easy to integrate. I was just thinking to myself today that I never get any replies on Pownce, but it’s because I rarely post. Well, Pownce [...]

My Facebook wish list

Dear Facebook,
Before you launch your new redesign, consider the following improvements. They shouldn’t be hard to implement.

Events tab. Facebook’s event application is great if you have large groups becuase you can message all members.

Smaller app invite icons. Make the important icons (friend requests, event invites, photo tags) larger, and the developer app invites a lot [...]

Macworld 2008

Macworld is a big deal in the bay area. This past week, the streets of SOMA were packed every day.
One day 1, I attend visited with exhibit hall. I had to find Terry Chay:

His phone was dying, so Brian Caldwell let him borrow a solar-powered iPhone charger.

The big news was Apple’s thinnovation. Honestly, the MacBook [...]

You’ve been bluebirded.

Twitter is a Ruby on Rails experiment, and at least once a day I am greeted with these messages:

There is even a website called istwitterdown.com that displays a white background with one word in black text. Ironically, Twitter is down now, and it says, “No”. It does link to an Amazon page where you can [...]