December 2011
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24 Hours on Android as a webOS Guy
I’ll preface this post with some back story. When I first got a cellphone in like 2001, I was a Verizon customer. My first for-real job found me becoming their Director of Technology right after I graduated high school and they offered to pay for my cellphone, but it required me to switch to their plan, on Sprint. So I did and got a nice little LG camera phone. A few years later, I left the...
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Important Notice About Zhephree Availability and...
So, if you recall, a little over a month ago, @zeldamac and I got married. Around that time I made a similar post about how I wouldn’t be available.
That time is coming up again! We’ll be on our honeymoon/holiday break at the end of the year, so I will not be able to offer support for my apps during this time.
I will be unavailable from December 22 until January 3.
If you have...
I Work For The Internet →
staff:
We work for the Internet. And we’re guessing many of you do too. Whether it’s researching, selling, coding, supporting, designing — so many of our careers depend on the Internet.
One argument that’s been made to Congress is that the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) is needed to protect American jobs. In truth, the new liabilities this bill would impose on startups could stop American...
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A Solution to the Social Web Gender Problem
Pretty much everything we do on the web these days requires some sort of account or profile. We gladly (or sometimes, begrudgingly) fill them out. We enter our name, location, maybe a birthday, our gender, and hit “submit” and move on with our day.
But for many people, that little “gender” field sometimes is source of hesitation. Generally, a site will offer two choices:...
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Some Answers to Some Wooden Rows and Zhephree...
I’ve had a few questions asked about Wooden Rows and the new Zhephree Accounts, so I thought I’d address them in one place.
Are Zhephree Accounts free? Yep! Always will be. The apps that’ll use Zhephree Accounts will be paid apps in the various app stores/markets/catalogs/etc, so that’s where support for the services will come from. That way you only pay a low fee once (to...