Path is a social networking application for iPhone and Android which emphasizes posting and sharing updates with a relatively small social circle. In contrast to Twitter or Facebook, where users may have thousands of friends or followers, Path tries to focus on actual family and friends and tries to keep things more personal. Unfortunately, to [...]
Posted in Development on Tuesday, February 14th, 2012
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I’ve recently switched to using DuckDuckGo as my primary search engine. DuckDuckGo has some nice features including a spiffy “bang” syntax that lets you quickly proxy search results over to other sites and services. For example, if I wanted to quickly look up a PHP function I can search for “array unshift !php” and DuckDuckGo [...]
Posted in Things on Sunday, February 12th, 2012
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I recently upgraded my iPhone and I am required by the Nerdy Web-person’s Guild to write about it. I try not to give into silly temptation and upgrade my phone every single year. The bi-annual upgrade cycle is silly enough. The iPhone 4S is a huge step up from the 3GS in so many ways. [...]
Posted in Play on Sunday, February 12th, 2012
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This is a nice little article discusses my new favorite search engine, DuckDuckGo. DuckDuckGo’s best two features are: It has no features It respects your online privacy Well. It’s not true that it has no features. DuckDuckGo just focuses entirely on web search. It doesn’t litter the page with garbage-ey social features and doesn’t filter your [...]
Posted in Development on Wednesday, February 1st, 2012
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