If you’re a Twitter user like I am, you probably received an e-mail recently from Biz Stone. No, I don’t know Biz personally, although I’m sure he’s a great guy. After all, he basically invented Twitter. The purpose of his e-mail was just to tell me about the new terms [...]
19 Aug
Posted by RodneyS as Apple, Computers, Gadgets, General, Internet, News For Geeks, Tech
As many of you know, Apple or AT&T does not like Google Voice. Some say Apple didn’t want to approve the app while others say it is the fault
of AT&T. Granted, a Google Voice app would of been very good to have, but it is not necessary. You can access Google Voice on your iPhone
through [...]
06 May
Posted by RodneyS as Computers, Future Tech, Gadgets, General, News For Geeks
When I was in college, I once bought a textbook that cost me $130. That hurt. The real pain, though, came when I tried to lug the thing around in my book bag. The final pain probably came when I got my grade report for the class. I bring up the college story to explain [...]
28 Apr
Posted by RodneyS as Computers, Future Tech, General, Internet, News For Geeks, Programming
Previously I posted on how to update twitter from the command line. Now I am going to build upon that and show you how to do it with twitter and facebook. To make it easier we are going to make a shell script.
#!/bin/sh
user=”Your twitter username”
pass=”Your twitter password”
curl=”/usr/bin/curl”
$curl –basic –user “$user:$pass” –data-ascii \
“status=`echo $@ [...]
14 Jan
Posted by RodneyS as Apple, Computers, Gadgets, General, Programming, Rants, Tech
I have had an iPhone 3G for quite sometime now and I really enjoy it, but when i look at the new apps coming out I am very disappointed. I see things like isteam, iBoob, and ifart. Come on these seem like something a 15 y/o would make as his first program, not something that [...]
Wall-E, if you haven’t seen it yet do yourself a favor and go this weekend. I’ve been a huge Pixar fan since the days of Toy Story. I’ve seen all of the Pixar films, and have liked each one. It looks like the guys at Pixar are upgrading their operating system, along with their rendering [...]