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Airbnb: Six awesome experiences {Gadling}
Jun 8th 2011 5:35AM I've tried AriBnB in the past but the places I've gone didn't have any listings (corporate training in the suburbs). Because of work, travelling and Facebook I have friends in a lot of exciting cities so I haven't needed to use them yet. I'm sure one day airbnb and I will have something in common.
Welcome to Dekotora, Japan's decorative truck craze {Gadling}
May 19th 2011 12:58PM Tour bus drivers decorate their vans out of pride and also to help tourists. When you have a few dozen Toyota Hi-Aces waiting for you in front of Dunns River Falls you usually know yours by the decorative work on the front and sides.
Denmark reintroduces border controls {Gadling}
May 16th 2011 12:40PM Goods, services and people are still free to move freely about the Schengen zone. I've been through the border controls and its just not that serious. Officer walks up to you and 90% of the time just waves you through without a word. I'm not sure how it would be any different for Denmark.
Strictest dress codes - 5 countries with fashion police {Gadling}
Apr 14th 2011 1:59AM My wife was on board a flight when some of the royal family came aboard. The women were out of their niqab before the wheels left the ground.
Strictest dress codes - 5 countries with fashion police {Gadling}
Apr 14th 2011 1:57AM I believe the French tried to be tolerant but just gave up on the idea. It really was causing a lot of strife with their idea of laicité. Tolerance comes from mutual respect and for them, the ones wearing the niqab weren't respecting them.
I believe the number was less than 2000 women who wear a face covering dress. So this law affects a very small number of people. But there are already talks about how it will interfere with festivals and and costume parties.
iPhone theft results in a tragic death {TUAW.com}
Mar 30th 2011 9:21PM This is already done. But, it's carrier specific and GSM is an international standard. You could block the phone on AT&T but if whoever has your phone decides to go to T-Mobile there is little that can be done.
Calibrate your monitors for cheap {TUAW.com}
Jan 13th 2011 7:27AM I wonder why the animosity. Erica just wants something closer to how its supposed to look. She isn't proofing or matching prints. When you are working with prints or photos, then a good colorimeter is a good investment, if you are working in MS Office or Xcode then you just want your white to be white, the text colors not be garish and your window contents to be legible.
I've got 2 Dell LCDs and the built-in profile was wildly off. Playing with the sliders didn't rectify the situation and the fact that there were 2 and each slightly off just made it more noticable. 30 minutes with a borrowed colorimeter sorted them both out.
Some things to point out. CCFLs need at least 30 minutes to warm up the phosphors properly. And recalibrating should be done every few months, but its not necessary, the only thing that changes is the brightness. LED-backlights are good for an incredibly long time. And they rarely change in brightness. They haven't been fully tested because they are still fairly new but LEDs are rated for 20 years under normal usage. And the brightness drops off exponentially so after 10 years it should be half as bright. Chances are you'll replace the entire unit before the LED even looses 25% of its output.
So for those that want to do it weekly you are free to do so, but 1/year is plenty for a lot of people.
DVDs are playing back on my Apple TV using AirFlick and AirPlay! {TUAW.com}
Dec 22nd 2010 8:42AM @Erica
Instead of putting the stream files into the main web folder you can put it into your user /Sites folder and therefore not have to escalate privileges.
So change /Library/WebServer/Documents/stream to ~{myaccount}/Sites/stream
Then the URL would be http://servername.local/~{myaccount}/stream/prog_index.m3u8
DVDs are playing back on my Apple TV using AirFlick and AirPlay! {TUAW.com}
Dec 22nd 2010 8:32AM You guys don't get it. In the hacking world this is how the sausage gets made. Do you think pwnagetool and redsn0w and all the other hacks out there just appear out of thin air? No. it takes learning, experimenting and testing. I've still got a iphone 2G and can still remember how long it took, 5+ hours, to jailbreak iOS1.1.3. We didn't have the luxury of of jailbreaking applications. You found a loophole, uploaded a payload and execute it so you could upload other payloads.
These developments don't mean much to you but to the hacking community they are important.
Federal judge will decide on your right to relax, not airlines {Gadling}
Dec 10th 2010 6:56AM Telling the guy where to sit was definitely not needed and his other two were really crappy.
But grabbing the guy's ear was definitely uncalled for. This is where the flight attendant should have been called in and either made the guy move his seatback or move the other passenger to another seat.
Acting like an adult in this instance would be way too difficult.
