http://tinotopia.com Tino Tino Bo-Bino Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:25:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A lot has been said about the iPhone's ability to locate the user; the new 3G iPhone actually uses GPS to do this, while the original iPhone just uses triangulation from cell-phone towers to figure out where you are. The triangulation method should work reasonably well for most purposes (i.e. 'what ... http://tinotopia.com/wordpress/archive/2008/08/14/iphone-location-error/ The AP has the story now; Tinotopia had it almost two years ago. http://tinotopia.com/wordpress/archive/2008/08/09/too-many-yellow-pages-es-are-useless/ There's a *Washington Post* story today about Jimmy Justice, the 'video vigilante' who records cops and other NYC official vehicular malparkage and posts the results online. The story also discusses the crowded genre of videos of cops beating the crap out of people. The police commissioner in New ... http://tinotopia.com/wordpress/archive/2008/08/03/the-use-of-force-sometimes-looks-violent/ Since the 2.0 firmware upgrade, it's taking my first-gen iPhone 35 to 40 minutes to sync -- with nearly all of the time taken up with iTunes performing a backup of the phone. Here's the process, speeded up 2400%: The time it takes suggests that the system is backing up *all* ... http://tinotopia.com/wordpress/archive/2008/07/27/my-iphone-takes-36-minutes-to-sync/ Most British people, when they attempt to do American accents, generally wind up sounding like movie cowboys to my ear. Actually, just one movie cowboy: It sounds like they should be addressing everyone as 'pilgrim'. The guy in their 'master class' recording likes to say 'Louisianer' when doing what I ... http://tinotopia.com/wordpress/archive/2008/07/23/american-accents/ iPhone iPhone iPhone iPhone iPhone iPhone iPhone iPhone iPhone iPhone!!!11 Presumably we'll see a new iPhone tomorrow, and not a moment too soon. I have an iPhone, and I'm happier with it than I've been with any phone I've had in the past (though probably less happy, all ... http://tinotopia.com/wordpress/archive/2008/06/08/what-the-new-iphone-should-include/ Or at least the *Washington Post* does. Or at least today's *Washington Post*. In a story about how Hispanics mostly voted for Hillary, and not Obama, yesterday, the *Post* has a quote from one Cecilia Muñoz, from the National Council of La Raza: Text-encodings are the bane of my ... http://tinotopia.com/wordpress/archive/2008/02/06/kindle-newspapers-have-text-encoding-problems/ Or, *The Washington Post* sucks on the Kindle. At least this morning's version. Amazon offers a two-week free trial of newspaper subscriptions on the Kindle, so this morning I poked and prodded, and wound up with the *Post* on there. And it's terrible. I don't know why I'm ... http://tinotopia.com/wordpress/archive/2008/02/05/kindle-newspapers-suck/ They're both stupid in the casual sense of being 'wack' or 'retarded' etc., and they're *stupid* in that they are not smart. Here's the interface for telling iTunes which videos I want copied to my iPhone: There are always 357 x 88 (or 31,416) pixels available for the list of movies, regardless ... http://tinotopia.com/wordpress/archive/2008/01/29/itunes-lists-are-stupid/ Jimmy Gutterman writes: >Radar's Nat Torkington has a smart take on this. (He's away on vacation, so I'll quote him.) "Success breeds risk of failure," he writes. "Some alpha geeks are turning away from Macs. Not all, but some. The reasons they cite are quite reasonable: It has surprisingly flaky hardware, ... http://tinotopia.com/wordpress/archive/2008/01/14/apple-getting-away-with-it/