Twiite’s geotagging API is now officially available letting third-party applications geotag a user’s tweets and display the location of where the tweet was posted. The new geotagging feature is only available in the API, there won’t be any changes in twitter.com itself.
Twitter is aware of privacy concerns, hence the opt-in nature of the feature:
It’s important [...]
Archive for category Misc
After learning about Cignal’s new high-definition satellite TV service in Davao, I just found out that YouTube is jumping into the HD scene as well.
MacNN reported that YouTube will soon have support for 1080p HD movies. In their official blog, Broadcasting Ourselves, YouTube announced that by next week, YouTube HD Mode will add support for 720p [...]
In the past two weeks, I’ve seen some pretty nasty and, I daresay, childish squabbles in my own neck of the internet. There are some people who go out of their way just to piss people off thus validating the Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory.
After a weekend of hell moderating in the Macworld Forums two weekends [...]
Been out of the loop for several weeks now (as you might have already noticed). First, there was the trip to Gen San. Then the trip to Metro Manila to help out the organizers of WordCamp Philippines 2009, which was held at the Asian Institute of Management in Makati. Top it all off, after coming [...]
I haven’t been updating Davao Mac User for almost two weeks now because I’ve been helping the organizers of WordCamp Philippines set up today’s event.
I am now here in the Asian Institute of Management, at Paseo de Roxas, Makati and am charge of live streaming the event. Check out the WordCamp Philippines website or our [...]
Two developers have released a Facebook Desktop Notification application for the Mac. The app notifies users about new activities and updates on Facebook via drop-down notification feeds from the menu bar or via pop-ups. The developers caution would-be users that the application is still in the experimental stage and has only been tested on Mac [...]
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Alex Lindsay, and Andy Ihnatko
In this week’s episode:
Snow Leopard
New “Get a Mac” ads
MacBook refresh
Apple Tablet news
App approval process
Last weeks’ Mac Geek Gab podcast offers a tip on what to do with sluggish Macs.
On this week’s episode:
Peter Cohen is AWOL.
Eyeonwiner.org
More TechCrunch inanity.
Google loves/hates Palestine/Israel.
Mashable asks: where’s the push?
100 technology experts on Twitter. Not.
Gazillion shortcut keys combo of Adobe.
TWIT 209: Dvorak Shrugged
Aug 25
Hosts: Leo Laporte, John C. Dvorak, Om Malik, and Kirk Harnack
In this week’s episode:
Apple-Google-ATT conspiracy
Internet connection speed-innovation corelation
US CIO babbles
TWiT goes digital
Audible picks of the week: Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand and Robert Kurson’s Shadow Divers. For two free audio books sign up for your Audible Platinum account at Audible.com/twit2.
Go to the This Week in [...]
Disconnected
Aug 19
I won’t be able to post as often as I want to this week because of the fact that our internet connection has been disconnected. We are in the process of looking for another broadband provider. Right now I’m at Kangaroo Cafe using my brother’s iBook for my internet and caffeine fix.
I do have something [...]
TWIT 207: Grandpa’s Woody
Aug 11
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Scott Johnson, Veronica Belmont, and Molly Wood
In this week’s episode:
DDoS of Twitter
Google Voice
Facebook goes ginormous
Pay-per-post
Cyber czar, and more
Audible picks of the week: Julie & Julia and The Beekeeper’s Apprentice. To get two free audiobooks, visit Audible.com/twit2.
Go to the This Week in Tech page at TWIT.tv to download the latest episode or subscribe [...]
And to think, I thought these people were über nice, unlike us Mac users. Well, some of them are actually acidic:
Actually, microsoft monsters like Ballmer and Gates deserve to be hung in a public event, with linux users free to throw whatever we want at them. I would throw buckets of battery acid on them.
On this episode: Avoidthisjob.com, It’s the iPad… with wings, Apple in CES, Mac and iPhone security, Arrington quitting the iPhone, Apple’s ’secrecy’, Pogue’s beep, freetard fascists, & Kindle’s DRM.
Links to topics here.
Special guest snipeyhead did an awesome job. I also credit her for this marvelous quote:
If I hear one more motherfucker tell me that I don’t need Photoshop I [...]
