TECHPopuliGeeky Technology for Regular People<br> a tech blog by Jack HodgsonBoston Subway fare cards cracked.- March 25, 2008 Just came across this story by way of SF writer Charles Stross's blog: newscientist.com: Wireless subway cards cracked Riders of Boston's T and London's Tube take note - the prepaid cards you use to pay subway fares have been cracked....http://www.techpopuli.net/news/04/002301.html All the world's a game- March 20, 2008 Turn your web surfing into a competition and social springboard. Technology Review: To make surfing the Web a more social and lighthearted experience ... designers are grafting a massively multiplayer online game on top of ordinary Web browsing. Players rack...http://www.techpopuli.net/news/04/002298.html Technology Review likes the iPhone SDK- March 13, 2008 Tech Review: Anyone who uses an iPhone will soon reap the benefits of the phone's new capabilities--from accessing business e-mail, to running familiar desktop programs, to exploiting the built-in accelerometer for new gesture-based interfaces....http://www.techpopuli.net/news/04/002291.html Fortune magazine on "Conference 2.0" and the SXSW attendee uprisings.- March 12, 2008 Fortune magazine gives a preliminary take on the result of the attendee uprisings at SXSW. "The entire un-conference movement started from the frustration with terrible interviews and terrible panels," said Chris Heuer, a social media consultant in San Francisco who...http://www.techpopuli.net/news/04/002290.html 1and1 mod_rewrite suddenly doesn't work- March 11, 2008 This morning I discovered that the mod_rewrite configs that I'd setup on my uncontrolled airspace website, and which have been working for over a year, were no longer working. It's been over 12 hours with no response from my hosting...http://www.techpopuli.net/news/04/002289.html TWIT excellent- March 11, 2008 A couple years ago the technology podcast TWIT rehabilitated my opinion of John Dvorak. I had no use for him, then I heard him talking every week, and discovered his was more interesting than I'd thought. Now it's doing it...http://www.techpopuli.net/news/04/002288.html Apple iPhone SDK Announced- March 6, 2008 Somewhat delayed, but looking like its worth the wait, Apple announced it's iPhone (and iTouch) software development kit today. First impression is that it's pretty good. Supports the dev of all sorts of apps. One thing I'm a little iffy...http://www.techpopuli.net/news/04/002285.html Watching pre-season baseball on mlb.com- March 6, 2008 I signed up for mlb.com's video service so I can watch some of the pre-season games. Their video player is by far the poorest system I've seen. The video quality is fuzzy. The frame rate is choppy. The screen blacks...http://www.techpopuli.net/news/04/002284.html |