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Comment Both Android and iOS (Score 1) 71

by sharkdba on Monday November 04, 2019 @12:32PM (#59379168) Attached to: Which mobile operating system do you primarily use?

I use both: my personal mobile is an Android, but work provided one is iOS. Can't say which one I use more, probably the work one as I don't have to worry about data usage.

Comment Re:Total (Score 1) 207

by sharkdba on Wednesday June 24, 2009 @02:22PM (#28456101) Attached to: An Experiment In BlackBerry Development

(Commuting sucks without podcasts, imo)

I commute by public transportation. I used to listen to podcasts but went back to the old style, you know, reading thing. The biggest reason: I can read much faster than listening to a guy talking. If I have a lot of material to catch-up reading is much more effective.

Submission + - iPhone to Allow 3rd Party Development (macworld.com)

Submitted by

Anarchysoft

on Tuesday June 05, 2007 @01:26PM

Anarchysoft writes: "In an exciting change from previous statements, Apple CEO Steve Jobs revealed at the D:All Things Digital Conference that 3rd party development will be supported on the iPhone. Questions remain as to whether the opening of the platform, slated for later this year, will be through Dashboard-like Widgets or a separate SDK."

Submission + - Watching my neighbors watch on-demand television. (slate.com)

Submitted by

Josh Levin, Slate Magazine

on Tuesday June 05, 2007 @01:11PM

Josh Levin, Slate Magazine writes: "I have a magical box that allows me to watch other people watch TV — their movies, their sports, their cartoons, and their hour-long procedural dramas. And sometimes, usually around 11:30 on Friday nights, their soft-core pornography. ... I solved the mystery by consulting online message boards. At tech-y sites like AVS Forum, other voyeurs described their adventures in freeloading. Apparently, I was intercepting video-on-demand channels through the power of my Samsung's QAM tuner."

Encrypt and Sign Gmail messages with FireGPG 206

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday June 04, 2007 @11:26AM from the can-you-spot-the-secret-message-in-this-dept-line dept.

Linux.com (Same owners as Slashdot) has a story up about FireGPG and says "Gmail may be an excellent Web-based email application, but there is no easy way to use it with privacy tools like GnuPG. The FireGPG extension for Firefox is designed to solve this problem. It integrates nicely into Gmail's interface and allows you...
Encrypt and sign Gmail messages with FireGPG

Putin Threatens US Missile Bases In Europe 997

Posted by kdawson on Monday June 04, 2007 @01:42AM from the reagan-won-this-didn't-he dept.

Melugo writes to let us know that Russian president Vladimir Putin has warned that US plans to build a missile defense system in Eastern Europe would force Moscow to target its weapons against Europe. This reader notes: "It feels like the Cold War all over again." "'If the American nuclear potential grows in European territory, we have to give ourselves new targets in Europe,' Putin said... 'It is up to our military to define these targets, in addition to defining the choice between ballistic and cruise missiles.'"

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