If you’re a creator of scripted content in Second Life, you’ve probably noticed the lack of persistent data storage available for LSL. Storing long-term data is nearly impossible without using an off-world database, but off-world database storage requires knowledge of PHP.
For any of you Mac users out there, I’d like to introduce you to the wonderful world of Skitch. Skitch is hands-down the most amazing, useful, slick freeware/service I’ve ever seen for the Mac (or for any other platform, for that matter).
If you have any dreams at all of being able to do instant messaging on your iPhone, you want BeejiveIM.
I know, I know, it’s expensive ($15.99) compared to such suck-fests as the AIM app (free), Palringo (free), and Mobile Chat ($2.99). But it’s sooooo worth it. Trust me – I tried all the instant messaging [...]
If you’re using MobileMe push mail, and you make changes to your mail accounts (any of them, even if you add one), it sometimes goofs up the push. Dunno why; it shouldn’t. But it seems to, and I spent ages trying to diagnose why my MobileMe mail wasn’t pushing properly after I added a Gmail [...]
Let’s face it: the Apple headphones suck. They always have. They don’t fit in your ear right (unless you have giant ears), they hurt, and the sound reproduction is okay at best.
But there’s another reason not to use them: they’re going to get your ass robbed.
If you’ve got an iPhone and aren’t using MobileMe (or, I suppose, Exchange), you’re cheating yourself.
I know, I know. The idea of paying $99 more a year for MobileMe is irritating when you’ve already dropped $199 – $299 on your iPhone. They should at least offer a free year’s subscription with the purchase of an [...]
I was never a huge fan of the Firefox browser for Mac. I wanted to be – it’s open-source, has add-ons, great tabbed browsing, etc. – but it simply wasn’t suited for the Mac. It didn’t look like the other Mac apps, it was a bit heavier than Safari, etc.
Then they released Firefox 3.0, and [...]
If you haven’t tried out Del.icio.us, you don’t know what you’re missing, whether your’re on an iPhone or a desktop. Del.icio.us is an online bookmark manager (free) that allows you to post bookmarks to it and tag them. These bookmarks are then available anywhere.
The advantage of this may not be immediately obvious. It’s not a [...]
The iPhone offers a custom signature that you can attach to just your iPhone emails. My advice? USE IT. Put something like “sent via iPhone” or “sent via mobile” in your signature.
It’s not about bragging. The email replies you send from your iPhone are bound to be terse and economical. If your contacts don’t know [...]
Want to use MobileMe for push but don’t want a me.com address? Want to filter out spam before it hits your iPhone? Read on.
I wrote earlier about trying to find a way to reduce the amount of spam that came to my iPhone through my MobileMe pushed account. MobileMe is lacking in server-side spam filtering, [...]
Jeremy Pippin is a writer and web consultant living in the New York metropolitan area.