- Monty’s World – Mapping the life and work of M.R. James
Oooh, this is nice.
- iOS 6 ad-tracking opt-out | jwz
Two useful (and rather buried, tsk) advertising/tracking opt-outs for iOS 6.
Tag: ios
Bookmarks for March 3, 2012
- Start Developing iOS Apps Today: Introduction
Any once again, I mutter "I'll get round to it one of these days" to myself… (In case you're wondering, I've been largely away from the t'internet for a week, being either parked in front of the Xbox or out doing museums and galleries, and I'm catching up on what I've missed.)
- In the Future Everything Will Be A Coffee Shop
I find the sort of future he's describing here quite pleasing, as he's essentially saying that the one aspect of modern life that cannot be reduced away is the idea of a social hub. The practical reality of the matter is that someone with an internet connect does not need to go to the shops, the office, or really anywhere, except places where they can be among other humans.
- CERN | booktwo.org
Here's a nice, easy to understand, and very readable bit of writing about CERN, what they do there, and why it's important.
- Olloclip vs iPro Lens review | The TechBlock
Been vaguely wondering about getting one of these. On the strength of this, it looks like the iPro is the one to get.
- Verisign seizes .com domain registered via foreign Registrar on behalf of US Authorities. » blog2.easydns.org – Happenings and observations
The US government have just demonstrated that they will sieze the internet based assets of foreign entities, even though no transaction related to those assets took place on US soil, and the crimes it thinks the company may have committed are not illegal in the places they may have committed them. This is (very) roughly like the US government marching into someone's home in London, and taking away their TV (that was purchased in London), on the grounds that it can be used to watch programs made in the US, because the owner, while living in London, drank alcohol at the age of 19. (I pick a trivial offence only because it's the first thing I can think of as an easy and everyday difference between US law and the law elsewhere.)
To quote the article: "This is no longer a doom-and-gloom theory by some guy in a tin foil hat. It just happened."
- 15+ Google Chrome extensions for better privacy control
Every time I need to set up a new install of Chrome, I have to hunt this page out. I'm bookmarking it so as to save myself a little time next time. Some of you may find a lot of it useful, too.
Bookmarks for November 8, 2011
- Apple Exiles A Security Researcher From Its Developer Program For Proof-of-Concept Exploit App – Forbes
This is, frankly, idiotic. Yes, he violated Apple's TOS, but there is no evidence that he did it with malicious intent, beyond proving that it's possible to get a dangerous app onto the App Store. I expect the security flaw he's exposed to be patched relatively swiftly, but the deeper issue of shooting the messenger is what really needs addressing here.
Bookmarks for December 15, 2010
- Dan Ariely » Blog Archive Locksmiths «
Here's an interesting thing to think about, particularly in light of the fact, that at my company, for example, I often get certain tasks because I know the code better, and can therefore accomplish the same task faster. Yet, we charge by the hour (well, actually by the ten-minute block). This essentially means that exactly because I've got more experience than some of my colleagues, clients pay less for my services. Yet the company has far more cash and training time invested in me. The obvious solution would be to charge more for my time than for some of my less experienced colleagues, but obviously, that's a hard sell to clients, not least because they lack the skills and knowledge to correctly evaluate whether it's better to get me, or someone else, on a given project. Especially when for some projects, I will work faster, and for others, I will be slower, because it's code I don't know so well, but one of my colleagues might know better.
- AWS SDK for iOS (Beta)
Hmm. This sounds like the good business to me. At some point in the not *too* distant, I need to get to grips with iOS development, and I like that there's now a simple Cloud-based DB that I can use for storage/sync.
- Naomi Wolf: J'Accuse: Sweden, Britain, and Interpol Insult Rape Victims Worldwide
Naomi Wolf produces a far clearer, far more on the nose, summation of the point she was articulating when she got leapt on but the left wing blogosphere last week. It is not a defence of Assange, it is a condemnation of the current rate of international prosecution for crimes far worse than what Assange is accused of. It wasn't a defence of Assange when she wrote it last week, but plenty of people out there got distracted by about seven words in amongst a much wider point, and her real point got lost. So she's restated it, and you should read what she has to say.
- flip flopping joy » Blog Archive » re: wikileaks
This is interesting. I've been trying to find numbers/commentary on wikileaks from a feminist perspective that isn't focused on Assange and the allegations against him, and failing. I'd like to produce an article on the real-world effects of wikileaks as regards women and/or social justice, but it's proving very hard to find even vague commentary in that vein, never mind hard numbers. This is the closest to useful commentary (that isn't about the allegations) I've found thus far.