I just installed a really nifty WordPress plugin called WPtouch. If you are reading this on a normal PC, Mac, or Linux browser or even an iPad, you won’t see any difference. If, however, you look at the site on an iPhone or other smartphone, you’ll see a friendly mobile interface that takes less time . . . → Read More: WPtouch – neat WordPress plugin
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I’ve been intrigued with low-power Intel Atom + NVIDIA Ion combinations for a while now and have recently put together a little net-top computer with a 1.8GHz Atom (dual-core + Hyperthreading) paired with an Ion2 plus 4GB RAM and the hard disk left over after I upgraded my PS3’s drive. The unit is a very . . . → Read More: Atom Observations 
The HIPerWall system was a pretty impressive collection of hardware for 2005, with 50 processors (more were added later), 50 GB of RAM, more that 10 TB of storage (we got a gift of 5TB worth of drives for our RAID system from Western Digital), and 50 of the nicest monitors available, but it was . . . → Read More: The History of HIPerWall:The Research Software (2005-2006) While looking at my website logs, I found an interesting service had been crawling my pages. Site Dossier (http://www.sitedossier.com/site/www.stephenjenks.com) tells a number of interesting things about the site, including the interesting discovery that there are over 3600 sites on the IP address (and by clicking the IP address, you can see what they are). I . . . → Read More: Site Dossier Kudos to Skype for adding new settings in their latest iPhone app that should address some of my earlier complaints. It looks like the app can be set to sign out of Skype immediately or after a delay when it is put in the background. This means the power drain should go away. Of course, . . . → Read More: Skype for iPhone looks much improved Apple was late to the multitasking party with the iPhone. The reason Steve Jobs kept giving is that multitasking allows apps to run in the background and drain the battery and that nobody really has come up with a good way to fix that. For iOS 4, Apple defined a strict set of criteria for . . . → Read More: Steve Jobs was right: Multitasking on phones stinks (and Skype is a terrible offender) |
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