April 2012
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Head First HTML5 Programming by Eric Freeman,...
Upshot: Like most Head First books, this is a good ‘general’ start to the topic at hand. Downsides? If you have more than one HF book.. you may begin to see a pattern here.
Head First HTML5 Programming by Eric Freeman, Elisabeth Robson is another dense, soup to nuts tome that weighs in at 610 pages. The authors attempt, and IMHO succeed in covering the current territory-in-flux that is HTML5.
If...
March 2012
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Death Rally Review
This is my review of Death Rally from iTunes, posted mostly to encourage the Developers:
“At 99c this is a no-brainer and loads of fun. I don’t know why folks are complaining about the controls. At the hale old age of 44, and as someone who does NOT game I was still able to get to 2 mil, play Extreme races and occasionally beat the Adversary, both on my iPad1 as well as my iPhone4…...
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paco the sage: Writing Kit Review →
This is an awesome review of WritingKit, my primary Markdown editor. It does Tumblr. Very well, according to this review:
pacothesage:
Ok, this is something I haven’t done before, so bear with me if this fails miserably. But I’m trying out Writing Kit. It’s a really interesting take on writing apps for the iPad.
Up until today I’ve used iA Writer for most of my iPad centric writing. Or Apple’s...
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AT&T says, "Your Billing Cycle doesn't Start When...
In the morning, folks! When we last left Bad Uncle Leo, that being ME, I was befuddled by ‘phantom data’ appearing on my iPhone. Being a geek I approached the problem from the geek end of things. It’s not a geek issue:
So @ATTTeamTrevor’s rep called me back, after I posted this pic to Twitter of my current billing cycle for March, which begins on the 13th:
Well it...
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AT&T's Problem with 3G 'Phantom Data' -- even if...
In the morning everyone, time to take a break from the ORA reviews to document my own little ‘issues’ with AT&T and what they define as ‘unlimited data’.
Here’s a little riddle:
If you ‘turn off’ all 3G and cellular data the night before your data ‘turns over’ or resets like this, say around 7pm PST the night your billing cycle ‘ends’….
What would you expect your data to...
