“I hated high school. It was the worst time of my life. [Then] college … was just awful. When you’re in high school, everyone tells you, ‘There’s a lot of repetitive bullshit and standardized tests; it’ll all be better once you’re in college.’ And then you get to your first year of college and they’re…Continue Reading…
Here in Vietnam, an iPhone brought from the U.S. isn’t allowed to use the Vietnamese carriers out-of-the-box because it’s locked to the American network. That means we need to unlock it. One of the several methods of unlocking the phone is to use Recovery Mode to restore using a modified ipsw file. Note that this…Continue Reading…
I’m out here for the CocoaHeads LA meeting tonight, so I thought I’d stop in at CoLoft, a new co-working space in Santa Monica, CA, near Los Angeles. It was started about a month ago by founders Avesta Rasouli and Cameron S. Kashani. It’s a very nice space, and it feels a little like the…Continue Reading…
If I were running a restaurant, I’d want to collect some basic statistics on how much my customers enjoyed their experience. In many businesses, if the customer isn’t happy, then the company doesn’t want the customer’s money. This is more true in the Internet Marketing world than anywhere else, because word travels fast on the…Continue Reading…
At this point, it looks quite likely that I’m going to really work on my startup in earnest. Now, this might seem odd, since my startup has been around, in some sense, since I released my first iPhone app back in August 2008. But I was still a student back then, and my tremendous success…Continue Reading…
When people complain that the iPad doesn’t have multitasking, a camera, a full-fledged desktop OS, or an exposed filesystem, they’re missing the point. They’re forgetting what came before: a slew of tablets from the likes of HP, Lenovo, Fujitsu, Asus, Toshiba and others. What do all of these existing tablets have? That’s right: multitasking, cameras,…Continue Reading…