Posts from 2010

A flashable zip containing a complete set of Dialog Axiata APNs for Android — no need to manually reconfigure after every OS wipe or SIM swap on your HTC Hero.

WordPress for iOS is perfectly suited for writing long blog posts on the iPad — a much better experience than on iPhone, and a great reason to blog more often.

xkcd on password reuse — a painfully accurate comic showing why reusing the same password across sites makes it trivially easy for attackers to compromise everything.

Unboxing and setting up the ZTE MF-100 HSDPA dongle won at a Dialog Axiata event — works out of the box on both Linux and Mac OS X Snow Leopard with no caveats.

Samsung ML-1640 is detected automatically on Ubuntu with SpliX drivers and shares cleanly with Mac OS X via a raw printer queue — a solid Linux-friendly laser printer.

A BBC interview with Dom Sagolla, one of Twitter's original creators, discussing how the 140-character microblogging platform was conceived and built.

iKeyword Free is live on the App Store and iKeyword 1.0.2 now returns unlimited keywords — try the free version first, and a new iPad app is coming next month.

BBC interview with Max Levchin, PayPal co-founder, on his entrepreneurial journey and the lessons learned building one of the world's most influential fintech companies.

Redeem an iTunes App Store coupon from the iTunes Store home page on your PC or Mac — click Redeem under Quick Links, not from the app's page or on your iPhone.

iKeyword, an iPhone app using Google AdWords keyword suggestion to find related keywords, was approved by Apple in just 7 days and is now live on the App Store.

An xkcd comic on Depth-First Search — a classic computer science algorithm illustrated with characteristic xkcd wit for programmers and algorithm enthusiasts.

Get a Huawei E1550 3G dongle working on Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard by downloading the official Huawei Dashboard and mounting the ISO with Disk Utility.