My review of the self-hosted RSS reader Fever went live on Obsessable yesterday. I’ve officially made the switch from Google Reader to Fever, and the only real loss that I’m experiencing is the loss of the widget in the sidebar to this blog that would normally have a list of all the things I was sharing out from Google Reader. My Google Shared Items page will still remain there, as far as I know, but that’s one of the reasons it’s good to break from it now. I have no idea how I would go about saving all those items to a database I control at this point (as I haven’t been feeding them into my lifestream for storage, as I have been doing with Twitter). With Fever, I save items within the application itself and I have a Saved items folder where they are stored forever (it even has an eternity symbol for its logo) in my database (so I can export them for use in other places, which is extremely useful).

So how do I continue to share the good links that I find with everyone reading this blog and with everyone on Twitter, FriendFeed, and Facebook? Easy. I’m tweeting them and that’s why I lengthened the number of tweets displayed in the sidebar. Enjoy!

In any case, if you’re thinking about checking out Fever, make sure you read my review and watch the video tour before plopping down the $30 for the application.

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I don’t know if anyone out there who tends to read my blog or follow me on Twitter knows how we can go about dealing with this problem, but Kristin and I just received a late notice on a ticket from New Rochelle. The only problem is that although the ticket has our vehicle tag listed, the color listed is wrong, we never received the initial ticket, and it was issued at 8:45 in the morning while Kristin was at work in the Bronx with the car. We looked up the address on the ticket on Google Maps to be confronted with a residential street where neither of us have ever been. After seeing this was wrong we pulled up a file with other parking tickets that we’ve received and paid in the past.

We had received a late notice once before and we assumed that it was for one time when we parked without paying the meter, so we just paid it without looking closely. Now that we’re actually looking at the ticket information again, we discover that yet again this was a ticket issued around 8:45am in the morning in an area where neither of us have ever been and on a day that Kristin was already at work and parked.

We can get evidence to support all this from the school where Kristin teaches and contest it in court and hope that the judge listens, but clearly there is some mix up between the tags on our car and the tags on someone else’s car. How do we begin to deal with this problem? I would love any advice that anyone out there has to give.

UPDATE: Spoke with New Rochelle Parking Enforcement this morning and someone is looking into it. They have a different colored car listed as the same license tags as us, so it looks like it’s a duplicate tag issue. Hopefully this can all be resolved without us having to go to court or involve any lawyers.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Still no word from Parking Enforcement. I’ll be following up with them in the morning. I just got off the phone with a reporter from the Journal News and @TalkoftheSound aka New Rochelle’s Talk of the Sound who posted about it this morning.

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pdaandkeyboard
Dear DataViz and Quickoffice developers:

Have you seen all the recent iPhone OS 3.0 keynotes? They’re pretty amazing. OS 3.0 now supports peripherals that interface with actual applications and a few people who were up on stage at these keynotes demoed some pretty impressive peripherals, like one that takes blood sugar count for people with diabetes. That’s insane.

So, my big question is why hasn’t anyone designed a simple folding keyboard peripheral yet for the iPhone, like all those PDA keyboards that were so popular for so long? I realize that you’re probably limited to making such a device work only with your application and not across the entire device due to Apple restrictions. Please make me a keyboard dock for my iPhone that works with your word processing software and that lets me prop up my iPhone in landscape mode as a screen. If you build such a device and price it reasonably, I will buy it.

I realize you’re not in the hardware game, so might I recommend that you reach out to Belkin, Griffin Technologies, or one of the other leading Apple hardware peripheral makers and partner with them to make this happen?

If you want to design such a device so that it will actually work system wide on the iPhone and iPod touch with any application that uses the software keyboard, but Apple proves to be uncooperative in enabling such an endeavor, I’ll gladly sign multiple online petitions (that Apple will most likely ignore as Apple is wont to do) and talk about it ad nauseum on this blog.

Thanks for your time and attention to this matter. I look forward to seeing what you produce.

Sincerely,

C.K. Sample III

ps—If you’re reading this and you agree, please comment below or retweet this post. If you’re not Dataviz or Quickoffice and you’re designing such a keyboard or you have built such a keyboard, please let me know about it.

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IM+ and BeejiveIM

06.29.2009
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I spent the weekend mostly on the go out on Long Island using my iPhone 3GS as a laptop substitute on Saturday and as a connected camcorder at a wedding on Sunday. During that time, I also tested two multi-protocol chat applications for the iPhone / iPod touch that also support push notifications: IM+ and [...]

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How to make a cheap tripod mount for the iPhone 3GS

06.25.2009
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I‘m still working on my review for Obsessable, but one of the things that I’ve been thinking about since I first received my iPhone 3GS and started shooting video with it was that I needed a tripod mount to use it with my Joby Gorillapod.
For some reason, I was thinking about this tonight, and remembered [...]

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Wolverine is a slut

06.25.2009
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Sure, he’s exceptionally old due to his regenerative mutant power, but according to this amazing X-Men Relationship Chart, one thing is crystal clear: Wolverine is a slut.
I mean, wow, that’s a lot of lines. He’s like the Grand Central of this comic book relationship transportation map.
[via BoingBoing]

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iPhone OS 3.0-savvy push apps arrive

06.23.2009
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Two of the first useful apps with push notification for iPhone OS 3.0 have arrived as of today, and they’re both chat clients: AIM and Beejive.

AIM comes in both pay-with-no-ads ($2.99; direct iTunes link) and free-with-ads versions and both versions support push notifications. Beejive costs a hefty $9.99 (direct iTunes link), but connects you [...]

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Someone finally punched Perez Hilton in the face

06.22.2009
Perez Hilton WAH!

I‘m really surprised that it took this long considering the large amounts of smack he talks, but evidently there was some sort of altercation between Will.i.am and Perez Hilton last night, and Perez got hit in the face.
Perez is quoted as saying:

According to Gawker, Toronto police have charged Molina Liborio with assault and Liborio [...]

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iPhone Apps purchased this weekend

06.22.2009
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After my new iPhone 3G S showed up on Friday, I found myself with all this space that I didn’t have on my old first generation 4GB iPhone, so of course, I bought a few new iPhone applications and gave them a whirl. Here’s the list (note: all links open iTunes):

Dataviz’s Documents To Go ($4.99)—Yes, [...]

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Video of the Misha and Sonja after a shower

06.20.2009
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Here’s the video that I was trying to post to this blog via my new iPhone 3G S that prompted all the frustration that led to my last post about iPhone 3.0 copy and paste problems with YouTube’s video embed code:

The amount of time I spent (before giving up) trying to get this video on [...]

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iPhone OS 3.0 cut, copy, and paste feature’s point of failure

06.20.2009
iPhone copy and paste fail

I want more than anything else for my new iPhone 3G S to become my new portable blogging solution. I remarked a while back that my first generation iPhone approached my ideal of a perfect portable gadget, and I was really hoping that with the addition of copy and paste in iPhone OS 3.0 software, [...]

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