Monthly Archives: May 2010

Seven-Piece Minimal Lego iPad Stand

After seeing a couple of Lego iPad stands, I decided to make one myself. This is my first generation version, look for second generation in the coming  days… Link to photos

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First impressions of Twitter for iPhone(formerly Tweetie)

Seems to be a decent update, has a number of interesting features. I encountered a couple of quick frustrations with it:

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OneSocialWeb: a new open “facebook”

Hmm, looks like facebook and diaspora* have some competition.  These guys are using openfire and the XMPP protocol to create a social web that allows you to control your privacy and your data on your own computer instead of relying

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bjango software bad practices

Recently a company named Bjango decided to take their free iStat Menus application for the mac to a pay model. That’s fine, its a great app and I used it daily. I was considering upgrading from my free version. They announced this by popping up an upgrade window that had 3 buttons on it, Skip this version, remind me later, and upgrade now.

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Innovative Engineer/Technologist: Innovatative app developer, systems architect, and project manager in a wide variety of technologies. I am particularly interested in learning about and creating new technology by looking at the 30,000 foot view to see how things can fit together in new and exciting ways. I started my career working at Internet Service Providers and moved into VoIP and Unified Messaging Applications. I currently work in the Switch Networking field. I am constantly looking at new technologies to enhance my own vision of technology as a whole. I consider myself to be of a new generation of Engineers that are able to use and understand technologies while still able to communicate and work with non-technical people. Click the link below to contact me.