Category Archives: General

Phoneme

Posted on 2013-07-02 by jcs

It’s a good bet that most geeks have a gmail account. I use mine mostly for mailing lists but many use it as their main email account and consequently are apt to have sensitive data in their saved emails. If … Continue reading →

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Feedly

Posted on 2013-06-30 by jcs

Google Reader is going away on Monday. That means that Reeder, my RSS reader of choice, is going to stop working. So far, only the Reeder iPhone app has been updated. That’s useless to me because the iPhone screen is … Continue reading →

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An Interview With Sacha Chua

Posted on 2013-06-29 by jcs

Bastien Guerry turns the tables on Sacha and interviews her. It’s about 45 minutes so leave some time. The interview follows Sacha’s usual format of exploring how she (as the interviewee) came to Emacs and how she’s using it now … Continue reading →

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You Can’t Make This Stuff Up

Posted on 2013-06-28 by jcs

I guess our secrets are safe now.

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Prism: All Your Data In One Place

Posted on 2013-06-28 by jcs

After the heavy breathing from yesterday’s post, here’s a lighter touch on Prism.

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Can We Please Keep Our Eye On The Ball

Posted on 2013-06-27 by jcs

Careful Irreal readers will have detected that I’m not much of a fan of the Press. Yes, yes, a free press is vital to a free and democratic society and all that. I just wish they’d do a better job. … Continue reading →

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Tasker

Posted on 2013-06-26 by jcs

As most of you know, I live in the Apple ecosystem so I was a bit jealous when I read this post by Ben Simon. Simon has an Android phone and therefore has access to the excellent Tasker app. One … Continue reading →

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Keeping Your Data Safe From the NSA

Posted on 2013-06-24 by jcs

After another week of seemingly never ending revelations about government snooping into our phone calls and Web activities—you guys in Europe can stop snickering; you aren’t immune either—many of us are wondering how we can regain a modicum of privacy. … Continue reading →

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Speculative Problems

Posted on 2013-06-23 by jcs

Jean-Philippe Paradis tweeted the perfect answer to those who complain about “problems” with Lisp syntax. The tweet was apparently provoked by this post from John Cook that, while discussing symbols in programming languages, remarked that “Lisp’s typographical monotony makes it … Continue reading →

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The Hipsters and the Designer

Posted on 2013-06-20 by jcs

Editorial note: I wrote this a few weeks ago (before WWDC) but didn’t publish it because it seemed a bit ranty. Now Apple has revealed iOS 7 and its icons and the hipsters are still yak yak yaking about them. … Continue reading →

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