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Unlocked SIM-free iPhones come with SIM tool. Worth the wait.

Posted on February 24, 2015 by jgordon

From app.net – http://bit.ly/1DQqwl3.

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Apple has put more limits on Family Sharing: “… up to 10 devices per account, only five of which can be computers … Not all products, including In-App Purchases … eligible for Family Sharing. “

Posted on February 23, 2015 by jgordon

From app.net – http://bit.ly/1Dewsl8.

Posted in w | Tagged Appdotnet, IFTTT

By my estimations if one actively works towards death by 83 long term care insurance is not cost-effective.

Posted on February 22, 2015 by jgordon

From app.net – http://bit.ly/19XeXfC.

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Decided to start using Gmail stars to tag sent emails needing follow up. Somehow have thousands “starred” in ’07prior. No way in web client to unstar all. Maybe Airmail can do via API?

Posted on February 21, 2015 by jgordon

From app.net – http://bit.ly/1Avic6o.

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I think the aWatch is dumb. Which makes me skeptical of the aCar.

Posted on February 20, 2015 by jgordon

From app.net – http://bit.ly/1CY79nh.

Posted in w | Tagged Appdotnet, IFTTT

Weird old guy thing. I’ve created a table where columns are health and welfare goals. Rows are people I am responsible for. Cells are things I have to do. The UI scales.

Posted on February 19, 2015 by jgordon

From app.net – http://bit.ly/1AMNgSs.

Posted in w | Tagged Appdotnet, IFTTT

@clarkgoble Problem is deeper than high school. In 2015 US 50K income requires skills most cannot develop regardless of education. Need to fix employment.

Posted on February 19, 2015 by jgordon

From app.net – http://bit.ly/1vJZofz.

Posted in w | Tagged Appdotnet, IFTTT

Disk Utility can’t fix Mavericks encrypted SSD error? Do wipe/restore first, *then* do encryption. Don’t try to encrypt from Recovery Disk Utility then restore.

Posted on February 18, 2015 by jgordon

From app.net – http://bit.ly/1EnZuOM.

Posted in w | Tagged Appdotnet, IFTTT

Early mobile/PDA images replicated history of awful 1970s color 110 [en.wikipedia.org] and disk [en.wikipedia.org] formats. Big regressions from prior images, very popular, 5-10 yrs to recover lost ground. #b

Posted on February 17, 2015 by jgordon

From app.net – http://bit.ly/1ANI2Es.

Posted in w | Tagged Appdotnet, IFTTT

13y of In Our Time: historians a bit better with technology, still very poor with disease and demographics. #b

Posted on February 17, 2015 by jgordon

From app.net – http://bit.ly/17lovz9.

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Tough slog sorting estate photos. My kids will have it easy. Just launch Aperture… Oh. Shit. #b

Posted on February 16, 2015 by jgordon

From app.net – http://bit.ly/1L2laSO.

Posted in w | Tagged Appdotnet, IFTTT

@jws Random/punish reward is how abusers and torturers bind victims. iTunes: happy accident or dark design?

Posted on February 15, 2015 by jgordon

From app.net – http://bit.ly/1FehSgJ.

Posted in w | Tagged Appdotnet, IFTTT

For @clarkgoble ios 9 wish list — need Android’s ability to set cell data use caps.

Posted on February 15, 2015 by jgordon

From app.net – http://bit.ly/1ExN2Mn.

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American capitalism has now packaged BDSM. Yay us.

Posted on February 14, 2015 by jgordon

From app.net – http://bit.ly/176Of2q.

Posted in w | Tagged Appdotnet, IFTTT

11″ Air 120GB SSD is full of course. Realize a low profile USB flash drive might help. Anyone have 1 they like?

Posted on February 12, 2015 by jgordon

From app.net – http://bit.ly/17oam4Z.

Posted in w | Tagged Appdotnet, IFTTT

Shocking realization: I had organize by thread enabled in iOS mail! I hate that.

Posted on February 11, 2015 by jgordon

From app.net – http://bit.ly/1CieGuo.

Posted in w | Tagged Appdotnet, IFTTT

Corporate me often hits Sharepoint / Exchange issues. Google often has no hits. Curious silence.

Posted on February 10, 2015 by jgordon

From app.net – http://bit.ly/1Ah0CEW.

Posted in w | Tagged Appdotnet, IFTTT

… Extreme wealth skew may be part of net-Ad business fail. Expect net to resemble daytime TV, predation of weak.

Posted on February 10, 2015 by jgordon

From app.net – http://bit.ly/1uzN6v5.

Posted in w | Tagged Appdotnet, IFTTT

… Thinking more on dying Google search, net neutrality, App Store floundering, dying journalism jobs. Common thread: failure of ad-based net business model.

Posted on February 10, 2015 by jgordon

From app.net – http://bit.ly/1uzN6ew.

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… Salmon’s bleak post on journalism career includes “RSS is dead” meme. I think that is more important (true or false) than he has as yet discussed.

Posted on February 10, 2015 by jgordon

From app.net – http://bit.ly/1ASVurQ.

Posted in w | Tagged Appdotnet, IFTTT

Before they drive us, the AIs will watch. Close miss on bike, insur up 20%.

Posted on February 9, 2015 by jgordon

From app.net – http://bit.ly/1ARfuuW.

Posted in w | Tagged Appdotnet, IFTTT

The Canadian mobi market makes Verizon look angelic.

Posted on February 9, 2015 by jgordon

From app.net – http://bit.ly/1AaAonr.

Posted in w | Tagged Appdotnet, IFTTT

I can’t tell HD animation from SD. Can anyone?

Posted on February 8, 2015 by jgordon

From app.net – http://bit.ly/1vbYAzO.

Posted in w | Tagged Appdotnet, IFTTT

iMac internal optical died, so bought external to replace. Surprised how quickly USB opticals are disappearing. Will 2017 be last year they’re sold?

Posted on February 8, 2015 by jgordon

From app.net – http://bit.ly/1zmrv4N.

Posted in w | Tagged Appdotnet, IFTTT

I’m testing out new IFTT Recipe. Should post to kateva.org/sh and to my Twitter account with link back to app.net.

Posted on February 7, 2015 by jgordon

From app.net – http://bit.ly/1M0Rg4P.

Posted in w | Tagged Appdotnet, IFTTT

MLB 2015 for ios $20 this year. For first time defaults to auto-renew. Greedy. Kudos to ios for post-purchase notice to manage auto-renew.

Posted on February 7, 2015 by jgordon

From app.net – http://bit.ly/1C5FY71.

Posted in w | Tagged Appdotnet, IFTTT

Pinboard DDOS: http://bit.ly/1M0xjLl Datacate took IP addresses out for 48h. The net is so broken.

Posted on February 7, 2015 by jgordon

From app.net – http://bit.ly/1C5FVIu.

Posted in w | Tagged Appdotnet, IFTTT

Anyone using Google Hangouts.app for calling landlines? It worked reasonably well for me 1-2 years ago — but connection half-life was 15 min. Just tried again and it’s unusable. Is it just me?

Posted on February 7, 2015 by jgordon

From app.net – http://bit.ly/1KufmTH.

Posted in w | Tagged Appdotnet, IFTTT

My old google voice service (651) is now unusable, too unreliable. Sad to lose, saved me thousands. Will try hangout again.

Posted on February 5, 2015 by jgordon

From app.net – http://bit.ly/16IWMZU.

Posted in w | Tagged Appdotnet, IFTTT

@clarkgoble I keep the posts short..

Posted on February 5, 2015 by jgordon

From app.net – http://bit.ly/1EJVNXb.

Posted in w | Tagged Appdotnet, IFTTT

@clarkgoble I’m planning to implement an IFTTT rule that will turn some of my app.net posts (tagged into tweets with backlinks to app.net…

Posted on February 5, 2015 by jgordon

From app.net – http://bit.ly/1Aw5FlR.

Posted in w | Tagged Appdotnet, IFTTT

What percent of physicians are Scientists? What percent of scientists? I’d guess 15% and 35% …

Posted on February 5, 2015 by jgordon

From app.net – http://bit.ly/1F9B3p5.

Posted in w | Tagged Appdotnet, IFTTT

My “partially played” itunes script has stopped working. Well, at least the horrid sync bug is fixed.

Posted on February 5, 2015 by jgordon

From app.net – http://bit.ly/1EIJGte.

Posted in w | Tagged Appdotnet, IFTTT

It took 60 years after 1780 “start” of industrial revolution for worker living standards to definitively rise. We need to study 18th century Economics to understand 21st.

Posted on February 5, 2015 by jgordon

From app.net – http://bit.ly/1v1jnWB.

Posted in w | Tagged Appdotnet, IFTTT

… The enormous fraud of US supplement industry is great riposte to fraud in Indian generic drug industry. Without strong regulation fraud is universal. Yay government!

Posted on February 3, 2015 by jgordon

From app.net – http://bit.ly/1KnVQGB.

Posted in w | Tagged Appdotnet, IFTTT

“Wars of secular religion”. A description of 30th century. What are secular religions today? Is Epistemic closure a market?

Posted on February 3, 2015 by jgordon

From app.net – http://bit.ly/1x62B8y.

Posted in w | Tagged Appdotnet, IFTTT

Does Xi think of himself as Qin 2.0? Never underestimate the mad ego of the Emperor.

Posted on February 3, 2015 by jgordon

From app.net – http://bit.ly/1LHTnu3.

Posted in w | Tagged Appdotnet, IFTTT

At mcd with kids. Why don’t they have an order entry app?

Posted on January 30, 2015 by jgordon

From app.net – http://bit.ly/1zeVsZw.

Posted in w | Tagged Appdotnet, IFTTT

Eric Hoffer: “Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and turns into a racket.” Certainly in America. And then the cycle turns again.

Posted on January 30, 2015 by jgordon

From app.net – http://bit.ly/1yTKqsf.

Posted in w | Tagged Appdotnet, IFTTT

A colleague recommended the book “Born to Run.” I gotta agree. I bet the truth is a lot murkier, but the story of crazed ultra-endurance athletes is weirdly inspiring. I have a bit of that craziness.

Posted on January 30, 2015 by jgordon

From app.net – http://bit.ly/1yKGbdH.

Posted in w | Tagged Appdotnet, IFTTT

MegaCorp dysfunction: Apple and Microsoft show it can arise in a sea of money. Scaling? Controlled economy (like USSR)? Income inequality? Parasite load? Truly, we need understanding. Who studies this? What discipline? #b

Posted on January 30, 2015 by jgordon

From app.net – http://bit.ly/1yTKrw6.

Posted in w | Tagged Appdotnet, IFTTT

Slashdot [slashdot.org] still exists. Kind of like MySpace. Interesting bit is I scanned today and headline topics were more interesting than used to be. Maybe smaller cohort has improved quality. I may try tracking feed again.

Posted on January 29, 2015 by jgordon

From app.net – http://bit.ly/1zgSxOf.

Posted in w | Tagged Appdotnet, IFTTT

@johngordon … Put another way … Humans seem to have a collective action impulse that is dangerous in modern environment and is correlated with religious activity. What is best way to divert and contain that? Religious diversity?

Posted on January 29, 2015 by jgordon

From app.net – http://bit.ly/1z7fYv7.

Posted in w | Tagged Appdotnet, IFTTT

Listening to In Our Time discuss 1930 nat-soc as religious mania. Plausible human failure mode. Do established religions lessen that risk? Be interesting to read a historical review.

Posted on January 29, 2015 by jgordon

From app.net – http://bit.ly/1z7fWDk.

Posted in w | Tagged Appdotnet, IFTTT

@rabryst One approach to Socialism 2.0 is to take rexting hourly earning as a baseline (market price), then pay minimum wage by gap-close subsidy.

Posted on January 25, 2015 by jgordon

From app.net – http://bit.ly/1EkV5zr.

Posted in w | Tagged Appdotnet, IFTTT

@johngordon … Thinking of Wikipedia’s Doom. One fix would be professional/establishment/scholarly Britannica-style articles as prominent companions to problematic entries. #b

Posted on January 24, 2015 by jgordon

From app.net – http://bit.ly/18bjrhH.

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Book needed: “how to die”. My mother did it pretty well, but there are lots of details and we only do it once. Need a practical guide with 10y out, 3y, 6m, weeks, etc. #b

Posted on January 24, 2015 by jgordon

From app.net – http://bit.ly/1D2Otlt.

Posted in w | Tagged Appdotnet, IFTTT

@johngordon … Related to corporate dysfunction / army of generals: we have immense worldwide talent glut. Which is related to wealth skew, demand deficit. #b

Posted on January 24, 2015 by jgordon

From app.net – http://bit.ly/1uHbvPE.

Posted in w | Tagged Appdotnet, IFTTT

@johngordon One theory of meeting growth as marker of corporate dysfunction: “Oz’s “army of generals”. Mega-corp have broken the marketplace, so now generals proliferate unchecked. #b

Posted on January 24, 2015 by jgordon

From app.net – http://bit.ly/1Jlrs0L.

Posted in w | Tagged Appdotnet, IFTTT

When life is full recorded we will have undeniable evidence that the simulation periodically loses track of physical objects.

Posted on January 24, 2015 by jgordon

From app.net – http://bit.ly/1B3UKuG.

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