Anatomy of a domain renewal scam
I just got a letter sent to my house from the official-sounding Domain Renewal Group. Boy, am I glad for that because … wait, what? I use the excellent GANDI for my domains, so what could this letter be? Oh, …
Author: Jared Earle
Jared Earle is a writer, photographer and systems administrator. You can find him on Twitter most of the time.
How to cheat at Pocket Frogs
This is a hard post to write because the iPhone game Pocket Frogs has provided me with hours upon hours of entertainment and I didn’t figure out how to cheat until I had almost completed the game. Am I ruining …
The abject failure of Linux on the desktop
I remember back in the 80s hearing how UNIX on the desktop was the future but I didn’t understand what it meant until the late 90s when I first started dabbling in Linux. By the end of the 20th century, …
This is why we can’t have nice things
On Monday, while I was sight-seeing in Oban, I was informed by a client that they couldn’t get to their mail. No problem, thought I, as my iPad was in my camera bag and iSSH was always ready to get …
How fast is iPhone 4 HDR?
With the new HDR feature on the iPhone 4, a feature that came out of nowhere and surprised me, you can now take HDR photos on your iPhone and upload them to your usual services without any real effort. Rather …