iphone

given all of the recent activity around storing your stuff in the cloud and the love from the NSA, i was wondering when the torrent crowd would assemble something along the lines of a peer-to-peer dropbox option. turns out that they already have. there’s even an iphone app and something equivalent for android. sync takes place over your local network if you’re local and via torrent if you’re remote. there’s some interesting reflector/relay capabilities and the data looks to be encrypted from end to end....

little dude got a cell phone. this serves primarily as a means for him to arrange his own play dates and request items that he leaves at the household for which he’s not staying during the current week. not to mention leaving me incredibly terse and cryptic (he’s still learning about asymmetric communication) SMS messages. of course he nearly immediately fixed his gaze longingly upon the nearly discarded iphone 1st generations that were sitting on the shelf and he somehow persuaded me to see about jailbreaking the phone so he could use it for an upcoming trip....

i recently ran across a number of references to hiram bingham’s, Inca Land, which is available for free from project gutenberg. this of course prompted the search for an appropriate ebook reader with hooks to project gutenberg. behold eucalyptus, which will download books from project gutenberg on the fly and give you a killer interface for viewing the contents of the book. insane attention to detail is visible everywhere....