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  • Lunch Time Links

    April 26, 2011
    in Links

    In an attempt to revive my blog from the grips of death, I am going to bring back my (short-lived) lunch hour link log.

    Here are some things I think you might be interested in:

    • Hunch Stats Profile Mac vs. PC People – Hint: Macs really love hummus
    • Clever Bike Rack Concept – 10 bikes = 1 car
    • You are not a User Experience Designer
    • Nokia has a new typeface

     


  • How To Use Your iPhone to Stalk Yourself

    April 20, 2011
    in Random, Tips & How To’s

    It looks like the privacy hippies were finally right about something, your mobile phone really is a pocket sized tracking device.

    Turns out that as of iOS 4.0, iPhones have been tracking your physical movements and logging it along with the phone’s backups.

    A small team of researchers have discovered these logs in iTune’s backup files, they’ve released a handy little app that collects all the data from your user folder and plots it on a map. iPhoneTracker.app and further information available here.

    Here is the visualization of everywhere I’ve been since Sept 28, 2010:

    You can see lots of activity in and around Winnipeg (including trips up to the Gimli and Victoria Beach), a flight to Toronto and subsequent travel around southern Ontario and a road trip to Minneapolis. It’s fascinating.

    I’m not sure if this is a terrifying privacy hole or a neat little hidden feature. I’m leaning towards neat feature, since the data is stored locally on your computer and can be encrypted automatically by iTunes.

    At this point in time a method for disabling the “feature” does not exist. I expect Apple will be responding in short order.


  • Canadian Tech Roundup Moving

    April 7, 2011
    in Podcasts, Site News

    Canadian Tech Roundup posts are moving to their own blog, will no longer be posted here.
    Episode 19


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Hello, my name is Ryan! I’m a web developer in Winnipeg, Canada. I’ve been documenting my random thoughts and occasional bits of interesting code here since 2005. Twitter. Github. Instagram. Mastodon.

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