iPhone: New iTunes Store Rating Feature?

IMG_0523Funny thing hap­pened to me today while i was delet­ing an iPhone app.  I held down on the icon till they all started jig­gling like ripe cher­ries then tapped the X to remove.  Then i see this.….

Never noticed that before.…  Kinda neat.

NOTE:  The I, Robot app gets 1 […]

Delete Search Recommendations

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BEFORE

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AFTER

So y’know how every­thing you type in a search field gets stored and sug­gested back to you for ever and ever?  Have you ever wanted to remove one par­tic­u­lar (pos­si­bly embarrassing/incriminating) search term from those lists?  Here’s […]

What I’m Into: lately

overcompensatingIt’s not as if you asked, but here are my lat­est deli­cious links, from June 18th through June 26th:

Love Your Farm­ers Mar­ket Con­test spon­sored by Care2.com and LocalHarvest.org –Sup­port LOCAL.
OVERCOMPENSATING: The Jour­nal Comic With a Seething Dis­dain for Real­ity. –bwaaaahahah-hahaha. Hehhe­he­hehe. Heh. *chor­tle*
‘Eco-kosher’ Jews have […]

iTunes Tip: those arrows

iTunes_arrows_ACKThose arrows, those pesky arrows. You know the ones that appear next to every track in your library and the iTunes store?  And only serve the pur­pose of direct­ing you to pur­chase things.  When they first appeared in iTunes you were left with the option to […]

The Bar Code Turns 35 Today

upc_barcodeAn his­toric event?  And now 35 years later the bar code is being rein­vented as the Data­Bar, or GS1.  For the bet­ter?  The new Data­Bar stan­dard seems rather half-assed to me.  If we are going to require the entire retail uni­verse to com­ply with a new […]

UPDATE: Cooperation Enters the National Discussion on Healthcare

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Good idea?  Bad idea?

Heck, i’m just excited to see this being seri­ously con­sid­ered on the national stage.  Adopt­ing a coop­er­a­tive health care sys­tem in this coun­try isn’t exactly tak­ing baby-steps, but it is intro­duc­ing the con­cept, and the ideals, to the standard-American whose sole source of new […]

Mac OS X Basic Training Session coming up — 6/29

beachballUse a Mac for work or play? Want to learn how to use it better?

Who:

New / Begin­ner Mac users
Recent “switch­ers” (just gave up your WIn­dows PC for a Mac)
Long time Apple users look­ing to pick up new skillz
Basi­cally, if you use a Mac, there’s some­thing in […]

What I’m into: today

It’s not as if you asked, but here are my lat­est deli­cious links, from today.

How to Craft Your Per­sonal Busi­ness Model — Free­lanceSwitch — The Free­lance Blog –This is get­ting me think­ing about the free­lance biz plan. What’s my pro­fes­sional mis­sion? What are my pro­fes­sional values?

once you can say with cer­tainty how you want […]

CCMA09: Closing Ceremonies

Thank you CCMA!  Thank you Pitts­burgh!  Thank you Ann Hoyt.  Thank you People’s Food Co-op Board of Direc­tors.  Thank you Chris Von Rabenau.  Thank you Jane from East End Co-op.  Thank you Jim & Pam Meltzer.

Here are pic­tures from the last night of the con­fer­ence and then our Sun­day excur­sion to Falling­wa­ter and points beyond!

CCMA09: IS4C!

— Tak Tang, Wedge Com­mu­nity Co-op & Joel Brock, People’s Food Co-op

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The final work­shop of the con­fer­ence.  An IS4C demon­stra­tion, includ­ing its his­tory and its evo­lu­tion, lead­ing all the way up to the lat­est releases of Fan­nie.  I got to co-present this work­shop with the esteemed Tak […]