So sad… Apple is a love/hate thing for many…

Allowing Flash — which is a development platform of its own — would just be too dangerous for Apple, a company that enjoys exerting total dominance over its hardware and the software that runs on it. Flash has evolved from being a mere animation player into a multimedia platform capable of running applications of its own. That means Flash would open a new door for application developers to get their software onto the iPhone: Just code them in Flash and put them on a web page. In so doing, Flash would divert business from the App Store, as well as enable publishers to distribute music, videos and movies that could compete with the iTunes Store.

Why Apple Won’t Allow Adobe Flash on iPhone

I’m involved with a company called Inventables, and people wonder what its all about it… here’s their presentation from TED back in 2005 when I met them for the first time. Check out their 18-minute presentation below:

They’re also featured in the new Discovery Channel TV show – Prototype This! in their Design room. There’s a short video about them there as well:

http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/prototype-this/invention-central/invention-central.html

This is a great discussion about the 850mhz GSM phone interference I’m sure everyone has heard by now…

If you own an iPhone, it’s more likely than not that you’ve run into this obnoxious sound, at one point or another. Put your iPhone next to a clock radio or too close to a phone, and you may find yourself serenaded by the iPhone staccato symphony. You don’t even have to have the radio turned on, just having it close to the speaker is good enough.

Why your clock radio is all abuzz about your iPhone

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“At midnight on February 17, 2009, all full-power television stations in the United States will stop broadcasting in analog and switch to 100% digital broadcasting. Analog television sets receiving free TV using an antenna will not work after February 17, 2009.”

Since I’ve become a Green Mountain customer my estimated environmental impact has been:

Pounds of CO2 Avoided: 14811
Trees Planted: 1008
Miles Not Driven: 16457

And thats just my home electric service. Not even switching all my cars to 100% electric would have saved me that much carbon!

WPA2 is officially broken now… so much for that. Looks like you should exclusively use VPN connections over wifi now.

“Russian security firm Elcomsoft has released software that uses Nvidia GPUs to speed up the cracking of WPA and WPA2 keys by a factor of 100. Since the software allows them to network thousands of PCs, this anouncement effectively signals the death of wireless networking in business networks; any network handling sensitive data should start using VPN encryption on machines connecting over Wi-Fi networks, or stop using these networks altogether.”

Elcomsoft Claims WPA/WPA2 Cracking Breakthrough

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“Obfuscated TCP is a transport layer protocol that adds opportunistic encryption. It’s designed to hamper and detect large-scale wiretapping and corruption of TCP traffic on the Internet. ”

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Woah – hell has frozen over!

Nero Liquid TV: TiVo for your PC

Starting in mid-October, however, people can turn their Windows PCs into a full-on TiVo DVR thanks to Nero’s new Liquid TV package. The software effectively turns a standard PC into a full-service TiVo DVR, replete with the same interface, program guide, and ease-of-use as TiVo’s standalone hardware DVRs–but with the added ability to burn recorded shows to DVD or export them to portable devices such as the iPod or PlayStation Portable.

Here’s the link to the product page at Nero’s site: Nero LiquidTV™ | TiVo® PC

With all the problems with the iPhone 3G – it looks like my next phone is going to be the G1 due out next month. Looks really great:

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I have been on David's radio show for years, and now he's on Heroes!
Rock on!

Link to USA Today Article: http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/life/20080917/d_cover17_heroesside.art.htm

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As Apple mocks Microsoft for its crashing operating system, perhaps its interesting to note that iTunes may be the culprit?

I’m reading lots of complaints about the new iTunes 8 update causing horrific problems on Windows machines, including widespread reports of STOP errors, aka the Blue Screen of Death

An inside look at Apple’s sneaky iTunes 8 upgrade

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I picked one up at the quasi-historic Bookstop here in Houston, you can learn more about it here:

http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/09/esquire_eink_cover_hackin.html

I have a love/hate relationship with banks… looks like SmartMoney does too…

10 Things Your Bank Won’t Tell You

This article is a good read… and if you haven’t read it yet, everyone should read The Millionaire Next Door

From SmartMoney:

10 Things Millionaires Won’t Tell You

Anybody who thinks they get too much email and has trouble managing it, needs to watch this video… Its an hour long – find some time to sit down and really listen to what he says. I’ve been using his techniques for a couple of years now and they work very well.

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Free City Wifi in Houston is now online… check out the locations on their website… w00t!

http://www.houstontx.gov/houstonwifi/index.html

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Cory sent this to me, and its hysterical…