http://todd.dailey.info A bald guy writing about geeky stuff. Fri, 18 Apr 2008 17:26:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Found a fun easter egg, if you can call it that, in Google Earth 4.3. If you turn on 3D-buildings and go to 5th Avenue in NYC, you'll see a wireframe of the 5th Avenue Apple Store cube. Cute! Here's a direct link to the view in Google Earth. http://todd.dailey.info/archives/2008/04/18/google-earth-easter-egg-5th-avenue-apple-store/ Gruber fell for what was (in my opinion) a diggbait and techmeme-bait post at Uneasysilence. Here's the email I sent to him. Hi John, Dan, the author, never approved my comment on his site, which was: It's just the welcome page, which has embedded flash, which, as explained by a commentor in ... http://todd.dailey.info/archives/2007/12/28/lies-lies-and-dan-at-uneasysilencecom/ After the iPhone IMEI non-story last week, I thought it would be useful to document how easy it is to sniff your own iPhone traffic if you want to do any testing or investigation on your own. The problem with the story last week was that no one had taken ... http://todd.dailey.info/archives/2007/11/25/how-to-sniff-your-own-iphone-traffic/ Techmeme is all abuzz from this post talking about Apple sending the IMEI when you ask for the stock or weather. Without focusing on the fact that people happily get their stock and weather quotes from Microsoft and Google all day long using their userid's there, my critical mind was ... http://todd.dailey.info/archives/2007/11/19/the-iphone-imei-echo-chamber/ I took the Acela Express train today from Washington D.C. to New York City. I had my Novatel U720 EVDO.a USB modem with me. I've had this for a while but I haven't had the chance to exercise it on a good long trip, and the three hours ... http://todd.dailey.info/archives/2007/04/09/traveling-with-your-macbook-and-evdo/ I was laughing out loud in the car yesterday listening to the current episode of This American Life on NPR. John Hodgman, a.k.a. "PC" on the Apple Get A Mac ads, talks about how the Apple ads changed his life. His story about entering the soho Apple store ... http://todd.dailey.info/archives/2007/04/08/john-hodgman-aka-pc-on-this-american-life/ I spent a little more time with Atomic Parsley. It’s a pretty useful command-line tool for setting metadata on Apple TV videos, but there are a few things that are a little bit opaque. I’ll document what I’ve learned so far. Seeing all your metadata First, download the latest version ... http://todd.dailey.info/archives/2007/04/02/more-apple-tv-metadata-fun/ I'm loving my new Apple TV so far. As Robert Scoble said, just as a podcast viewer it's great. Also, we've used it as a music player for the living room for more hours than anything else. It's great to have all the playlists, genres, and other ... http://todd.dailey.info/archives/2007/04/01/creating-appletv-descriptions-and-artwork-for-your-homemade-movie-files/ This site really isn't serving any useful purpose for me. I've disabled all comments and trackbacks while I rearchitect it to scratch a bit more of my technical itch. In the meantime, you can always reach me directly, my contact info is on the about page. http://todd.dailey.info/archives/2006/08/26/site-updates-in-progress/ Wow, spotted this new Universal Drive Adapter at Other World Computing Newer Technology USB 2.0 Universal Drive Adapter Compatible with any 2.5", 3.5", 5.25" IDE or SATA device! Supports IDE & Enhanced IDE 3.5" internal IDE Hard Disk Supports ATA/ATAPI-6 Specification 1.0 Supports SATA I and SATA II USB 2.0 up to 480Mbps Transfer Speed Backwards Compatible ... http://todd.dailey.info/archives/2006/06/08/usb-adapter-for-25-35-or-525-sata-or-ata-drives/