Kathleen Charters and Lawrence Charters
Explorations large and small
What happens when a high-tech urinal crashes? It no longer flushes, but it does flash an indicator light and occasionally beeps. No, it was not made by Microsoft. The beep sound occurs only about once every ten seconds. This is Continue reading When plumbing fails
Apple had billions of dollars worth of free pre-release advertising for the iPhone 5, ranging from publicity on news programs to slick ads produced by various mobile phone vendors and resellers. And then there was this Radio Shack store in Continue reading Do-it-yourself iPhone 5 advertising
For most of human history, people had only their own memories for storing information. Most people who have lived did not know how to read or write, and if they wanted to remember something, they had to memorize it. Stories Continue reading Poor memory management
Photos taken at the Apple Store, Columbia Mall, Columbia, Maryland. Photos taken, appropriately, with an iPhone 4.
Have you ever said to yourself, “I want a native Mac OS X hex editor that can handle files of unlimited size?” Of course you have. What you need is 0xED, and it is free: http://www.suavetech.com/0xed/0xed.html It is also Lion Continue reading Literary references to Macintosh applications
3236 Yes, these are ads. And not even new ads, but they are new to me. The first reminds me of an overly prescriptive, talkative GPS unit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ljFfL-mL70 and this one reminds me of times when the GPS unit gets Continue reading Driving directions
2821 One of the great mysteries of the modern world is: where does spam come from? It seems that no matter what kind of filters you put on your E-mail, or what kind of special software you install or special Continue reading Where does spam come from? Costco.
3360 MacJournal is an inexpensive application that allows you to blog — or create a local journal on your Mac, or both — using a full, native Mac application. There are also iPhone and iPad versions, but we’ll ignore them Continue reading Posting via MacJournal
3941 There are few things more 21st century than blogging. And there is an app for that! Since WordPress is synonymous with blogging, the iPad and iPhone app is called: WordPress. It is on the iTunes store, is free, and Continue reading Posting via iPad