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Basically, they are totally disallowed in checked luggage, and there’s a maximum of two in carry ons. Those in your carry on must be in original packaging or a zip lock bag.
Guess I can’t carry an extra laptop battery, camera battery, and Archos battery anymore. Now I have to choose which [...]

There is an OS X Dashboard Widget named “Make My Day” that makes formatted date strings in various programming languages. I used it a lot when I worked with PHP, but stopped for a while since it only supported PHP and MySQL. Since the developer doesn’t seem to have a site anymore, I [...]

There is a news item posted by the Port of Seattle stating that “All Electronic Items Must Be Removed from Carry-ons for Separate Inspection”. This new policy is set to take effect TOMORROW, Sat Aug 3rd 2007.

“Effective Saturday, August 4, passengers must remove all electronic items, such as DVD players and video cameras, from [...]

So yes, it is probably in the manual, but I read through and still missed this tip.
A lot of mobile sites like those provided by Google Reader, Facebook, Twitter, and Remember The Milk construct their mobile sites such that older phones without directional pads can use numbers for navigation.
The Motorola Q has a directional pad [...]

I attended Mashup Camp 4 this past weekend in Mountain View. It’s a great Open Space conference that delves deep into Web services APIs, technologies, and of course mashups. Mashups in short for those who haven’t heard of them are sites that mash data from multiple sites to create a new site with integrated data.
For [...]

I just created V1.0A of my very first OS X application using xCode. It was incredibly easy since by virtue of my requirements it actually does nothing. Yes, it is a very useful and productive application that does nothing, nada, zip.
lilill is a little OS X application that makes using menubar extras fun. It is [...]

The iPhone is great at presenting large pages with its built in pinch and zoom capabilities. It does this by using a viewport instead of a window and by scaling content as it deems appropriate.
I presented a demo for my site Chunk Love at iPhoneDevCamp that showed how to disable scaling and which allows [...]

GrandCentral (now owned by Google) is a great way to manage your communications. They are the biggest step forward in the US for consolidated communications services. There are other companies like Kirkland WA’s GotVoice that are making big strides, but the ones made by GrandCentral beat them all.
* Auto ringing of multiple phones [...]

Sometime after 5PM PST on May 10th, Dreamhost apparently upgraded their version of PHP. Their custom compilation looks to have some bugs in it that have not yet been fixed, leaving customers with some nasty issues.
I have del.icio.us set up to auto post my bookmarks to Life, it is a Travesty (my personal site) [...]

Photography related news would normally be relegated to my personal blog, but the exposure here is much greater and this is important enough to get the extra exposure it needs.
Scoble has a call for help for Zoomr.
I’ll admit that I know very little about Zoomr (as I am not in the Beta) except that it [...]