Has anyone successfully downgraded from the Unlimited data plan to the 200 MB one? It would lower my bill by $15/mo, as the unlimited plan is $30/mo and the 200 MB one is $15/mo. That’s a $180/year difference. But the AT&T website says the feature conflicts with “Basic Voice Mail”: The following feature(s) are in…Continue Reading…

You might, like me, see tons of launch failures in your OS X Console (an app in /Applications/Utilities). To uninstall Openfire, just delete these files and reboot: /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.jivesoftware.openfire.plist /usr/local/openfire /Library/PreferencePanes/Openfire.prefpane

They are ridiculously hard to use. It’s 2010. Computers should not still be this hard to use. Yes, computers are complicated. But end users should never have to see that complexity. Dear Microsoft: please make your crap usable. In order to upgrade Silverlight, they force me to uninstall the old version first. That’s bad enough;…Continue Reading…

I’m reading an interview with Paul English, Co-Founder of Kayak. He has some innovative ideas for running a company. Here are a couple: The Red Phone: Paul found the most obnoxious, loud-ringing red phone he could find and plugged it in right in the engineering office.  About 30% of the time, when a Kayak web…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…