Today, I setup a couple of WordPress plugins for automatically posting blog links to Facebook and Twitter. WP to Twitter The first is WP to Twitter.  Instructions are pretty straightforward for creating a Twitter app for integration.  Small hitch was that after creating my Access Token I had to reload the page in order for the access tokens to actually show up.  Now whenever I create a new post, it will post a Tweet using [...]

Step 1: Purchase iPad2 for $500 Step 2: Drop on tile floor to shatter screen Step 2a: Sweep up shards of glass off the floor Step 3: Call AppleCare and find out that it’s not covered under warranty since it was broken through “negligence”. Step 4: Decide that Apple’s out of warranty repair option ($300) is too expensive to fix a device that costs $500 brand new. Step 5: Purchase 3rd party touch screen digitizer [...]

I’m slightly ashamed to say that I never really understood the concept of threads or cores before now. I didn’t know what hyper-threading was, but I’d bought the hype that quad-core processors with 8 logical cores were spectacular.  As it turns out, they are, but now I know why. Logical cores aren’t as powerful as physical cores, if you could squeeze 8 physical cores on a die, that would be better than 8 logicals, but until [...]

Motorola asks ITC, two federal courts to throw book at Apple. Click through to see a chart illustrating all the currently ongoing lawsuits.  This is the second chart I’ve seen like this, but this one is easier to read.  It shows the relationships between all the companies suing each other over patents related to mobile devices.  Direction of the arrow indicates who is suing and who’s being sued. Nokia seems to be the hub, followed [...]

» Poll: Majority Oppose Net Neutrality Adoption – Big Government. So yes, this pleases me.  I’ve noted before that I love the idea of net neutrality, but I’m not willing to let the government regulate one more aspect of my life in order to make it a reality.  Apparently the nation agrees with me. I do, however, find it funny that things like this can sway elections and public opinion, when you read the details [...]