Posts under ‘technology’

Location Sharing is a hot topic amongst mobile enthusiasts and social networking fiends. With new and improving services like FourSquare, Gowalla, Loopt, and Latitude, there are a lot of options.
Each of them has their own strengths and weaknesses from the Checkin-centric services like FourSquare and Gowalla, to the real-time location based services like Latitude, and [...]

A new protocol with a funny name, PubSubHubbub, is out in the wild, complete with a free-to-use implementation of the most difficult part, the hub itself. Instructions for use in wordpress are fairly straight forward.
So what does all this non-sense mean? If you happen to have a conforming RSS reader (like, say, Google Reader is [...]

There is far too much bullshit on the Internet.
Too many of you assholes see something on the internet and think, "HEY! I can do that too! I'm gonna be fucking rich!".
No, you can't. And no, you're not.
Just give up now before you litter my precious Internet with your crap. And before you start [...]

These are my first impressions of the iPhone OS 3.0 versus Android 1.5.
I've been using Android for 3 months now and Android 1.5 for about 3 weeks.
I've only had 1 day with iPhone OS 3.0.
I'm running Android on a T-Mobile G1. I'm running iPhone OS on an iPod Touch 2G 8GB.
In comparison to iPhone hardware, [...]

7,223 updates ago, I started a Twitter account: twitter.com/revjim. I had locked updates and all was good and right in the world and I knew all of 3 people using the service.
Things have changed.
As I mentioned in detail on Jonathan's LJ, people use Twitter in very different ways. I have two very different kinds of [...]

In the long, drawn out battle of where to put what when it comes to my online writing, it seems the dust has begun to settle with the exception of one remaining factor: life.
As I see it, there are really only 2 options.

My own website powered by Wordpress
LiveJournal

The big deciding factor between the two is [...]

A few months ago, the fine people at WOMWorld lent me a Nokia E71 for review. I've been putting off publishing any sort of remarks because my mom always said "if you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all." But, lately, they've been insistent. So, here we go.
First the good.
The phone is beautiful. [...]

In short, I have a new site you can read: http://revjim.tumblr.com/
There are hundreds of sites begging people to put their cool links into them (delicious.com and the like). But none of them really let you customize the site and make it your own. On top of that, almost every piece of social networking software has [...]

I love Craigslist. I don't post often, though I have before.� I don't really respond all that often either. I just enjoy the raw nature of it. There so much passion in a missed connection. There's so much excitement in seeking a companion. There are so many new possibilities and opportunities. There so much freedom [...]

Maybe it isn't Vista's fault. Maybe it's just software developers not implementing their products correctly in Vista. But, much the same as Linux or, to some extent, the Mac, software is what makes an OS useful. If the software doesn't work then the OS may as well not work.
I can't seem to get my iPod [...]