It was as if a billion voices cried out in horror and were suddenly silenced. A company known for it bloated scare-ware buys a company known for keep SSL from being affordable.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE64I71S20100519
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Air & Space Magazine posted this story on their web site about a timelapse video. I recommend reading the “How they did it” article too.
Go For Launch!
In this unique time-lapse video created from thousands of individual frames, photographers Scott Andrews, Stan Jirman and Philip Scott Andrews condense six weeks of painstaking work into three minutes, 52 seconds (read here how they did it).…
Read the rest “Just about the coolest video ever of the Space Shuttle Discovery on STS 131”
We are getting some nice pea-sized hail today.
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Be sure you know your login credentials before updating from Tweetie 2 to Twitter 3. Since the company has changed the usernames and passwords have to be re-entered.
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For the last three years Apple has offered a free iPod with the purchase of a Mac. I’m hoping they repeat the trend this year.
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I’m away from home and using my iPad to keep In touch. My only WiFi access is very limited and does not allow basic services like IMAP, SMTP, or VPN — only web access is allowed. That should not be a problem because I can get my email in Safari by going to me.com…
Read the rest “Disappointed that I cannot access MobileMe webmail via Safari on iPad”
http://developer.apple.com/wwdc/sessions/
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Unfortunately the NasaTV web page is not designed to work on iPad. It relies on RealPlayer for some reason. Hop over to SpaceVidCast.com and click on the home page link. You can watch full screen.
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Although it’s sad that someone had to get hurt to test the campus emergency system, it’s an opportunity to commend the system. The information was easy to find and was keep updated as the situation evolved.
http://tamunews.tamu.edu/category/emergency/
KBTX has more details about the developing story.…
Read the rest “Explosion at Texas A&M. Looks like they have it under control. Good use of their Code Maroon emergency system”
I pulled out my shop vac to clean up some sand left behind from the mastic around my pool. The more I vacuumed, the faster the static charge would build up. At first I didn’t realize what was happening. I kept feeling small zaps on my feet.…
Read the rest “Vacuuming Sand with a Shop Vac results in a Van de Graaff generator — shocking”
I was unable to get traffic updates on my iPhone TomTom app. It was very annoying since I choose my route based on traffic.
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If you want me to attend your party or barbecue, send me an email. The email should contain the who, what, where, and when of the event. Don’t make me jump through some marketing hoop to view a Flash-ridden site just to find out the date and location of your party.…
Read the rest “Please do not give my email address to evite or any other third party.”
If you want to send insecure email from your iPad,
there’s an app for that –or at least an open port. After setting up my iPad 3G I noticed that I had an extra SMTP server listed. This server was both unprotected and insecure.…
Read the rest “iPad 3G Support Insecure SMTP Server” 
