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A3M Updated to latest CodeIgniter v2.1.2 named PB&J

07/24/2012 GitHub In the News PHP 2 Comments

As of tonight I’ve happily updated the long idle A3M project on github. You can check it out here: https://github.com/pengkong/A3M-for-CodeIgniter-2.0 Also, I will be updating the official A3M guide later (as its almost 3am as I write this). Check it out, and enjoy. Feel free to fork and offer bugs,…

The iPhone Is a Nightmare For Carriers

02/08/2012 Apple In the News Thoughts & Rants No Comments

According to the latest EBITDA numbers from AT&T, Sprint, and Verizon, the subsidies they have to pay Apple in order to carry the iPhone are drastically reducing their profits.

Youtube being throttled on AT&T 6Mbit profiles? Seems like it to me…

12/04/2011 In the News Thoughts & Rants 1 Comment

I have been conistantly having buffering issues with Youtube using my standard home ADSL connection (6Mbit from ATT – ADSL). Not a single video running 480p or higher will pre-load without me getting a buffering icon in the center of the screen. I have a ‘Network meter’ widget on my…

No such thing as a “bandwidth” hog, finally proof!

12/04/2011 In the News Thoughts & Rants No Comments

Since the advent of broadband speed internet that was available to the consumer, we’ve all heard of the term ‘bandwidth hog’. The term always was used by your ISP to describe ‘evil’ consumers that ‘hogged’ wayyyy too much bandwidth for themselves, and thereby choking or reducing the speeds of everyone…

iPhone 4s battery problem. Possible quick solution to extend it?

10/20/2011 Apple Hardware How To In the News No Comments

I have been trying different settings, back and forth since I got the phone, and I really got good results by disabling the Location Services for the Reminders.

Tesla Model S – I’d love to see it drive across the US/Canada

08/10/2011 In the News Thoughts & Rants No Comments

All the latest news about Tesla and electric cars, got me thinking. Every manufacturer seems to boast longer and longer ‘milage’ for their vehicles, but I never see any real statistics, its always ‘estimated’ miles, which shows like Top Gear have shown to be incorrect. Case in point, one of…

Windsor Ultimate kicks off its Summer 2011 Season

04/01/2011 In the News Thoughts & Rants No Comments

For those into Ultimate Frisbee, and local to the Windsor / Detroit area, should know that the Windsor Ultimate league is kicking off its Summer 2011 registration today. Software written by me is being utilized as a platform to manage users, payments, and all that fun league stuff. This is…