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Here’s an interesting thing to consider next time you’re looking through your web stats: the popularity of Safari 4 and later (the desktop version, not the iOS one) probably looks way higher than it actually is. Safari’s “Top Sites” feature checks sites to see if any content has changed since you were last there (and […]
Continue ReadingNews Corp wanted me to tell you about something, but I don’t have an iPad so I don’t care.</ipad-jealousy>
Continue ReadingSeeing something like this while compiling libmemcached or trying to install the memcached gem? checking for style of include used by make… GNU checking for gcc… gcc checking for C compiler default output file name… configure: error: in `/opt/ruby-enterprise-1.8.7-2010.02/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/memcached-1.0.2/ext/libmemcached-0.32′: configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables See `config.log’ for more details. *** extconf.rb failed *** […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a much more mainstream one, including Alex Metric’s awesome Fenech-Soler remix, Delphic, PUZIQUe, and some noisy upstarts called Be Quiet. Shout Loud!, whoever the hell they are. :) I’ve been sitting on this one for almost a month now, so I think it’s well overdue a release! If you love the Unadopted Podcast, please add […]
Continue ReadingThe Unadopted Podcast is back with a whole bunch of stuff I’ve been listening to in the three months since I last put one of these thingies out. Some of it’s new, some of it’s not. Expect nice electro things like Late Of The Pier, The Black Ghosts, Goose, Foals and … Saint Etienne? :) […]
Continue ReadingThis is a pretty huge disappointment: Google’s admitted defeat on Wave, citing poor uptake, and plans to cut it loose later this year. “despite these wins, and numerous loyal fans, Wave has not seen the user adoption we would have liked. We don’t plan to continue developing Wave as a standalone product, but we will […]
Continue ReadingI discovered today that FaceTime didn’t work on my iPhone 4: people couldn’t start FaceTime calls with me and I didn’t have any of the FaceTime buttons present. Turns out that this problem is caused when restoring from an iPhone 3G running iOS 4 — it seems the FaceTime on/off setting is imported from the […]
Continue ReadingJust found an awesome guide from Mattias Kretschmann on how to create a perfect AFP file server for Mac clients that supports Time Machine backups over the network out of the box. It worked for me with a Mac OS X 10.6.3 client and an Ubuntu 10.04 server, with just one small change to the […]
Continue ReadingThis one’s so lively it should probably come in its own cage! Fantastic tunes this time from the likes of Passion Pit, Justice, and a couple of truly brilliant remixes from Last Japan. If you love the Unadopted Podcast, please add Unadopted on Facebook and tell your friends about the podcast! Want to send music in […]
Continue ReadingIt seems that things have progressed into the ridiculous in the YouTube vs Viacom spat: For years, Viacom continuously and secretly uploaded its content to YouTube, even while publicly complaining about its presence there. It hired no fewer than 18 different marketing agencies to upload its content to the site. It deliberately “roughed up” the […]
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