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iPhone Name Tag

By marcus • Jul 15th, 2007 • Category: geek

Turn your iPhone into a Name Tag
Have a new iPhone? Found yourself staring at the beautiful screen instead of socializing with people? Here’s an application to help you with your iPhone addiction.
» iPhone Name Tag



Incompatible Adapters, Why Apple Why?

By marcus • Jul 9th, 2007 • Category: geek

I don’t get this one, some very poor incompatibility between Apple power adapters. The key to modular systems is that the pieces should fit together. Did Apple engineers as kids always forced that square peg through the round hole?
The new iPhone dock comes with a ridiculously short cable and the USB adapter only has [...]



PHP: How to Fix Double Posting

By marcus • Jul 3rd, 2007 • Category: geek

When submitting a form, a user may click the submit button twice, they may reload the posted form, or hit back in their browser. Most of these will cause the form to be submitted twice and likely posted twice to the database.
Here’s one way to solve double posting, the process is:

generate a unique key and [...]



Powerset, natural language search platform

By marcus • Jun 30th, 2007 • Category: geek

I attended a special event at Powerset on Thursday, where they opened up what they are working and planning on. Powerset, if you hadn’t heard, is a new search start-up looking at becoming a relevant player in the search game. Their not-so secret weapon is natural language technology they licensed from Xerox PARC.
As [...]



GigaCrunchBeat a Yahoo Pipe

By marcus • Jun 27th, 2007 • Category: geek

I wrote about Yahoo Pipes previously and finally got around to playing with it. I ended up creating a very simple “pipe” which combines the RSS feeds from GigaOm, TechCrunch, VentureBeat and Mashable. I call it GigaCrunchBeat, Mashable is implied.
I import this feed into one module on my start page instead of four, works [...]



mkaz.com blocked in china !?

By marcus • Apr 11th, 2007 • Category: geek

I’m not sure if I upset China some how, but according to this site, http://www.greatfirewallofchina.org/ mkaz.com is blocked in China.



Follow Bonds on your Mobile this Summer

By marcus • Apr 6th, 2007 • Category: geek, sports

Follow Barry Bonds on your mobile this summer as he marches towards the history book. I’ve setup a mobile alert using Mozes, just text “bonds” to 66937 and you’ll receive a text message after every Bonds home run. It’s kinda like twitter but with actual useful information and none of the annoyance. ;)
Or if you’re [...]



A strange red light from my MacBook Pro

By marcus • Apr 5th, 2007 • Category: geek

A very strange thing just occurred with my MacBook Pro. The audio output stopped completely, it was working earlier today. I tried to change the volume, and it showed as muted but with full volume, a bit weird. Plus it started emitting a strange red light out of the headphone jack.
A little searching and supposedly [...]



The Odds of a Perfect Bracket

By marcus • Mar 10th, 2007 • Category: geek, sports

It’s March Madness time again which means time to fill out the tournament brackets. So I’m sure we are all wondering what the odds are to pick a perfect bracket, all 64 games picked exactly right.
The straight odds calculations is relatively easy, for each 64 games you must pick the right outcome out of the [...]



Distributed Social Networks

By marcus • Mar 3rd, 2007 • Category: geek

As the NY Times article today shows, social networks are sprouting up everywhere. Small niche sites such as the Portland Trailblazers, BarackObama, Nike, and now Ning’s wicked service which allows anyone to build their own in just a few minutes. But how many of these disparate sites will someone want to join?
Does some one need [...]