Sol Young

On January 10th, 2003, a buddy and I tore in to the dash of my car to create a mini-monster. This was before the Carputer got popular and just about the time of GPS acceptance. Direct link to the Flickr set here or check ‘em out after the jump.
(Tech specs… 2001 Suburu Impreza 2.5RS, [...]

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I’ve finally made the leap away from being a directory-o-holic and landed in iPhoto from iLife 08. It does the organization automatically (”Browse Package Contents” in Finder.)
is working well as a good photo stream and album holder (using the Sets feature.) It works as a free backup service too ($25 per year for photo [...]

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Kevin Schelkun finished the first in a series of how-to videos for iofy’s new hardware player. Check it out and see how easy it is… 30 seconds. The video makes me want to find one and listen to something.

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The news of the week (month/year?) is the $44.6 billion offer from Microsoft to acquire Yahoo!. Robert Scoble blogs the intelligence of Google’s email and Dave Winer drops thoughts on Yahoo’s options based on TechCrunch blogger Mike Arrington’s analysis. Mike Arrington’s latest news is a bit disheartening. Either sell to Microsoft or sell their [...]

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Thought I’d share this…http://consumerist.com/353764/the-tsa-helps-itself-to-your-electronics-and-private-data 

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My favorite mobile blogging device is now listed on eBay. The HTC Universal has a usable keyboard, beautiful touch screen, plenty of horsepower, 3G, Wi-Fi, BlueTooth, dual-cameras etc.
It met its demise in the outer pocket of a WWDC07 laptop bag (yes, my bag, d’oh!)… Cracking the screen and becoming unusable. I don’t feel like doing a screen replacement. It’s now [...]

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We’ve recently done work harnessing our iofy RESTful web services in JavaScript, especially the account management sections. Typically, in old-school fashion, an account management system is done server side with PHP, PERL, Ruby, etc, interacting with a database.
<sarcasm>That’s great when you want your heavy hitting developers to do design work or when you want your designers [...]

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