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Secret messages: no lemon juice needed.
08 months ago
I have found an extension for chrome called encrypt the cloud. It allows you to post encrypted message to twitter,face book and several other sites, encrypt them and decrypt the replies or posts from your secretive friends. You can get it at the chrome web store. Once installed you just add your name and key and the name and key of your secret friends. you may also have to add each site you wish to encode/decode.
On twitter just type your tweet, hit ctrl-y and there you are. It does take up extra room so it will mean less information or more abbreviations. you can also use the dem pasge to encrypt a message for general posting with clear text or an un supported site.
Give it a try. my ussername is thetwidgetlog and key is starbuck.
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IOS 4.3 the shocking truth
01 year ago
Wednesday, 3-9-11, at 10am IOS 4.3 was released. I quickly connected my IPad and upgraded. Yea, a painless upgrade. Now for the testing, is it better?
I began with Safari. Opening a page was quicker. Then I went to a You Tube video I had tried the night before. It had taken several minutes to buffer the one and a half minute show. Now it began playing and did not need to stop for buffering, that is a win.
Now we check Hulu. Normally I have several stops to buffer and some total stops during any length show. With IOS 4.3 the show started up, only had some minor blips that would have been a stop. It kept on going without a hitch. Yet another win. App loading feels faster too.
What about the playing of your library media to the iPad via AirPlay? That’s not exactly what they mean. They mean’t you could access your home-shared library from your iPad or iPhone or touch. Once you go to settings on the device and put in your apple ID you can access your music, podcasts and video from either the iPod app or the video app.
I think this update is a win, right now. Now we will see how the new apps work this Friday.
The Daily Telegraph
01 year ago
The Daily has been out for several weeks now. I have found it to be a little too slow. It has taken as long as fifteen minutes to update and crash at least once during that time. It’s not that the news is not current or even a problem to be updated during the day. But taking more that a minute to update is too slow.
As for the presentation, I like the carousel of pages,, but the movement of the page is too slow and clunky. I don’t like the need to rotate my iPad to see some pages. Reading the news should not require movements to get the whole story. At the same time I think having accessible extra information is good. Those methods should be the same throughout the program.
Overall if you want an overview of some news then try The Daily, while it is free. I do not think you should subscribe though.
I think that if you subscribe to something you should be getting extras and lose the ads. You might say “but jerry, the magazines have ads in them and you subscribed to them”. I would respond, “hey the subscription was supposed to pay for the transport of that magazine to me, ahead of the general release to the public stands. The cover price of a magazine goes mostly to pay for the transportation and distribution chain, not the publisher”. They are, or should be, making their income from the ads in the publication.
IOS 4.1 – An early view
01 year ago
I was able to get IOS 4.1 on my 2nd gen ipod touch early and my I say I am underwhelmed. While it seems a bit faster, on a 2nd gen touch, I do not get many of the cool features. No home screen wallpaper, no multitasking, no bluetooth keyboard!
If you are just going to IOS4 then you will be wowed. Having folders, grouping by a common theme, for your apps is very nice. It makes finding the app you want much easier. For those of you with a 3rd gen device the wallpaper for you screen is nice. As an ipad user I like being able to change the view from my page when I wish, beach for the summer, mountains for a view, relaxing for those down times. I am anxiously waiting for IOS 4.2 for the iPad.
Get the latest version for your iPhone or touch as soon as is possible. Let me know how the new version works you.
Eight windows and all is well!
0So windows eight arrived to much fanfare and controversy. It was beautiful, horrible, predictable. I immediately took up the task and downloaded an ISO to install into a virtual machine. That install was amazingly smooth and fast. The Beta fish on the load screen was cute! I found that you cold link and login to your local machine with your windows live account. I proceeded to use the random and unmemorable password to set up. Later I returned to my live account online and changed the password and it changed for my cpu!
I purposely setup the virtual machine to use only 1GB of ram and minimal resources to simulate the net-book it would eventually use. it worked fine. I brought in Chrome and Skype, two of my have to have programs and they work fine with the exception of camera access through the virtual machine. That, I suspect, is my fault.
With this favorable install I decided to make a bootable USB drive and installed to a dell Latitude E6400 I had available. This system came with Vista installed so it was a pre win7 system. The install went smoothly and quickly. I erased the drive and did a clean install with no issues at all. On this install I did a local account as it is a shared resource. There were some updates that I manually fetched but it appears that you have less choice about the updates and must take them regardless.
The latitude boots into windows 8 very quickly, 20 seconds, and that is with a standard hard drive. it shows a wireless connection made in that 20 seconds as well. Every thing is snappy and clean. I have noticed that even though the desktop is considered an app this are loading none the less. My Skype install continues to login even though I have not had a chance to go to the desktop yet.
My next test was to install to the dell mini 10v I have. again the install was smooth, no surprises or workarounds. This time I again connected to my live.com address to see how the integration is going. After the first boot I had to do updates to get the windows 8 driver for the video card, this gave me the 1024×600 resolution. Unfortunately this is too low to allow the metro apps to run. luckily I could connect an extra monitor and run that at a resolution that wold allow the metro apps to work, 1024×768 at least.
Other apps run fine though, Chrome, Skype, my favorites and you know. I added flash as I like to use the netbooks as my tiny windows to amazon, Hulu and Netflix. I ran a youtube test to see how it works, after an hour it was still plowing through The Chieftains and The High Kings. As a double check ot be sure flash as used I did a right click on the video, 11.1.102.63… I think it’s flash.
While the departure from the previous norms can confuse some I think that the new UI for windows eight is innovative. It will bring new ways to monitor vital information and access your data. Don’t let your fear of change keep you from experiencing the new and finding ways to be informed without having to chase that knowledge.