Apparently, if you don't like your competition on the iPhone/iPod App Store, you can request their apps be removed from the app store by making some shit up... and Apple won't verify if your claims (and the other parties counterclaims) are true, since they'll ask you your opinion on what to do once you get a list of counterclaims.
Some examples:
Oh how people change...
Posted by
Justin Haygood
on Tuesday, October 20, 2009;
HOW MUCH HAVE YOU CHANGED? (I stole this from niece Elizabeth!)
****10 YEARS AGO (1999)****
1) How old were you? 12
2) Who were you dating? None
3) Where did you work? I didn't work
4) Where did you live? Marietta, GA
5) Where did you hang out? Home
6) Did you wear contacts and/or glasses? Neither
7) Who were your best friends? Friends? What was that?
8) How many tattoos did you have? None.
9) How many piercings did you have? None
10) What kind of car did you drive? My dad brought me everywhere I needed to be
11) Had you been to a real party? No
12) Had you had your heart broken? No
13) Were you Single/taken/Married/Divorced? Single
14) Any Kids? No
****5 YEARS AGO (2004)****
1) How old were you? 17
2) Who were you dating? None
3) Where did you work? Assistant to the IT guy at Marietta High School
4) Where did you live? Marietta
5) Where did you hang out? School
6) Did you wear contacts and/or glasses? Neither
7) Who were your best friends? Erin M, Thiago Z. Dwidnel V.
8) How many tattoos did you have? None
9) How many piercings did you have? None
10) What kind of car did you drive? I didn't have my license yet, but I did have a 1992 Ford Taurus GL
11) Had you been to a real party? No
12) Had you had your heart broken? Yes
13) Were you Single/taken/Married/Divorced? Single
14) Any Kids? No
***3 YEARS AGO (2006)***
1) How old were you? 19
2) Who were you dating? Shelley Grey
3) Where did you work? EyeWonder, Inc.
4) Where did you live? Kennesaw, GA & Marietta, GA
5) Where did you hang out? Work, SPSU
6) Did you wear contacts and/or glasses? None
7) Who were your best friends? Erin M, Thiago Z, Dwidnel V, Shelley Grey, Sarie, Jenny F
8) How many tattoos did you have? None
9) How many piercings did you have? None
10) What kind of car did you drive? 2006 Mazda 3 -- red
11) Had your heart broken? No
12) Were you Single/Taken/Married/Divorced? Engaged (exactly 3 years tomorrow)
13) Any Kids? No
****TODAY (2009)****
1) Age? 22
2) Where do you work? EyeWonder, Inc.
3) Where do you live? Marietta, GA
4.) Who are you dating? Single
5) Who are your closest friends? Kirstea, Sarie, Thom, Shelley, Jenna, Holly, Tony, Thiago, Erin M
6) Do you talk to your old friends? yes, often
7) How many piercings do you have? None
8) How many tattoos? None
9) What kind of car do you have? 2006 Mazda 3 - red
10) Had your heart been broken? Yes, broke up with my fiance of 3 years
11) How many kids? None
12) Are you Single/Taken/Married/Divorced? Single
Best Musician Ever
Posted by
Justin Haygood
on Monday, October 19, 2009;
I am under the firm belief that Johnny Cash is the best musician ever. His career has spanned decades and genres, and he's been inducted into both the Country Music Hall of Fame and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
To anyone who disagrees: check out his work. He's produced over 96 albums, with his older stuff leaning country and his newer stuff leaning alt rock, but all uniquely Johnny Cash. He could sing any song, including covers, and make it his own. "Hurt", originally by Trent Reznor, and "Personal Jesus" originally by Depeche Mode are classic examples of this ability.
T-Mobile USA, the 4th largest cellphone carrier in the United States, isn't content with being number 4. They plan to become number 3 (overtaking Sprint PCS) with several initiatives, some of which have already started:
- Rapid Expansion of T-Mobile 3G (and since its using AWS instead of PCS, they don't sacrifice 2G quality to go to 3G.. unlike certain other carriers)
- Upgrade to 21 Mbps HSPA+ with existing 3G rollouts
- Potential new $50 unlimited everything plan (similar in price to MetroPCS, etc.. and dramatically lower than their national competition)
- Significant phone upgrades (which they've already started to do -- even TMO's feature phones are pretty "advanced")
TI fiasco
Posted by
Justin Haygood
on Wednesday, October 14, 2009;
I used to be heavily involved in the TI programmer community. In fact, many friends of mine I met through this still vibrant community. During that time, I never thought TI would resort to a false DMCA take-down request to get people to stop reprogramming their calculators. Yes, calculators. People do reprogram them. and TI sent a take-down notice for the signing keys (2 prime numbers) for doing so. Yep.. kinda sad.
See this on:
So Microsoft totally fucked over T-Mobile USA.. they botched an upgrade without backups, and thus losing all Sidekick owner's data... For some reason I don't trust Microsoft with my data anymore...
Chromium on openSUSE
Posted by
Justin Haygood
on Sunday, October 4, 2009;
I'd like to say I am really happy that openSUSE now has a Chromium package :).
Facebook for Android
Posted by
Justin Haygood
on Wednesday, September 30, 2009;
So.. Facebook and Google have finally released a Facebook application for Android. For this review, I'm testing on the following:
T-Mobile G1 (on the T-Mobile USA network in Atlanta, so full 3G)
OS: Android 1.6
It's a very basic application, much more so than the Facebook application for Blackberry (which I used through several iterations, owning a Blackberry Pearl 8100, Blackberry Curve 8320, Blackberry Pearl Flip 8220, and using a Blackberry 8800 from work). It doesn't let you see your Facebook inbox for one, but let's hope Facebook (well, the Google engineer that is working at Facebook for this application) gets around to adding that feature soon. However, it is very quick at posting messages and loading your news feed (the page you see), and it does let you upload photos and videos (very well integrated with Android) and comment/like on posts. It even has a home screen widget that has a textfield for updating your status and showing recent status updates.
libpurple-facebook :)
Posted by
Justin Haygood
on Monday, September 28, 2009;
libpurple-facebook 1.61 is now available for openSUSE 11.0, 11.1, and Factory in home:jhaygood. For users not on Factory, this will pull in json-glib from home:jhaygood (which is being pulled from GNOME:Factory for now)
libpurple-facebook updated
Posted by
Justin Haygood
on Sunday, September 27, 2009;
I updated my libpurple-facebook package in the build service to 1.61. However, it requires json-glib, which is currently only available in openSUSE Factory at the moment. I'll be trying to figure out how to get it to work on openSUSE 11.1 shortly.