It only applies to folks in the 22 states that AT&T serves, and you need to sign a 1 year contract, but check out what The Consumerist found: As part of a concession made to the FCC in order to get its mitts on BellSouth, AT&T is required to offer basic DSL for $10 a […]
Threat Level recently ran a story about Kevin Bankston, the EFF attorney who decided to test the take-down procedure for privacy-infringing photos within Google’s Street View. Initially, Google required a wealth of information before removing the photo, but they changed their policy, requiring only your name and the location the image was taken. Kevin submitted […]
The great thing about the MacBook is that it’s one of the first Apple notebooks in a long time that includes a user-replaceable hard drive. And it’s incredibly easy: remove three screws, pull the drive out, put the new drive in the old drive’s caddy, and plug it back in. That part takes about five […]
If you want to share an external drive between a Mac and a Windows machine, you typically format the drive with a FAT32 partition. One problem you’ll run into, however, is that you can run into a file size limit if you’re dealing with really large files. NTFS gets around this limitation, but unfortunately the […]
If a lot of your day is spent building and rebuilding software, you want to know at a glance how things are going. You could walk over to the monitor and look at the text symbols that humans use to communicate, or you could glance at a softly glowing orb that lets you know what’s […]
Ever want to track how many folks are viewing your photos on Flickr? Just give Statr access to pull your pageviews and it will collect and graph your Flickr statistics for you. Statr for Flickr allows you to track and plot page views statistics for your Flickr account. Graphs are automatically updated on a daily […]
Using Google’s Spreadsheet API, you can create a simple CMS for your website extremely easily. It’s as simple as making a new sheet with key/value pairs for any fields you want dynamically populated. You can then access the data from javascript via the JSON API. Any updates to the spreadsheet will be immediately reflected in […]
