Tech
Happy Birthday, Podcasting
Today marks the 9th anniversary of the day the first podcast was published. Adam Curry‘s Daily Source Code is hardly daily anymore (in fact there hasn’t been a new episode in over a year) but podcasting has since become commonplace. It’s just another way the iPod (and other MP3 players) have become indispensable in today’s […]
Pointing Abraham Williams’s PHP Library for Twitter OAuth to Twitter API 1.1
I’ve mentioned before how I’m using Abraham Williams’s PHP library for Twitter OAuth for various projects. With the impending decommissioning of version 1.0 of the Twitter API the question has come up as to how to edit this library so it uses version 1.1 of the Twitter API instead. It’s actually quite simple: Open twitteroauth.php. […]
Plugged In, Not Charging?
When I came into work this morning I noticed that the battery icon in the task tray of my windows 7 laptop said “63% available (plugged in, not charging)”. Naturally the “plugged in, not charging” part was a concern. After Googling for suggested fixes and trying a few different things I hit on a fix […]
If Steve Jobs Were Alive He’d Want Us To Stop Saying “If Steve Jobs Were Alive”
This morning I read yet another piece about Apple that said “If Steve Jobs were alive…”. We’ve seen this time and again since Jobs died but even more now in the wake of the release of the latest iPhone. It seems like every time someone has a complaint or even a compliment about something Apple […]
Goodbye, Twitter Tools
I had fallen behind in installing software updates on this blog since I hadn’t posted for a while. (Too many other things going on in my life that I had to deal with so the blog got put on the back burner.) So when I logged in today I wasn’t surprised to see that several […]