Wanna download all 702 pages of the CIA’s recently declassified historical documents known as the “Family Jewels”? Then cURL is your friend.

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I stumbled across Telekinesis today. The way I understand it, it is basically VNC software for your iPhone and Mac. This has great potential to extend the iPhone’s capabilities. This is a big plus for me.

The next item on my iPhone wishlist is the ability to mount remote filesystems for file sharing.

While I don’t have an iPhone for myself, I have had the chance to try a couple of them. My first response is, “Wow!” This phone works better than I expected. Scrolling through photos, browsing the web, playing music or videos, all works well. The screen is brilliant, easy to read. Read the rest of this entry »

Too many people forwarding stupid emails about how to make money by forwarding this email to everyone in their address book…

Too many people surfing youtube for latest video of some idiot singing…

These sorts of things ruin the whole web experience for people who really need it for something useful. Why not slow down their connection in order to speed others up? They can wait a couple extra minutes for their videos and emails to load, right?

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