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  • euicho 4:21 pm on 6/26/2009 Permalink | Reply
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    Cell Phone Tracking and Bugging 

    photo by Jurvetson (flickr)

    photo by Jurvetson (flickr)

    Tell your average hipster that they can use VZ Navigator on their phone to get directions to the coolest new club through a GPS chip in their phone, and they’ll probably think its pretty neat. Tell the same thing to your average healthily paranoid geek, and they’ll hopefully question how else it might be used. Sure its cool, but if Verizon can do it, so can the government. On top of that, they may also turn on on your mic even when you’re not on a call. In a follow up to my article on FBI cell phone tapping, we’ll be discussing how you can be tracked on your cellphone, and under what circumstances.

    UPDATE: See this article on cellular phone company tracking

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  • euicho 10:35 pm on 7/28/2008 Permalink | Reply
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    Saying Goodbye 

    It’s so haaaaarrd, to say goodbyyyyyee, to yesterdaaaaayyyy… :(

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    In other news: iPhone 3G! FARK YEAH!

    Oh, and for all you haters: Lowest price for a new Tom Tom GPS = $199.
    Lowest price for a new iPhone with GPS (and phone, music, video, monkey ball, etc…) = $199. And yes, it will have turn by turn directions in the near future.

    Gadget pr0n will follow once I get my invisible shield on it

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    • datblonddood 11:53 pm on 7/29/2008 Permalink

      Where one door closes another opens.

    • Luke 12:22 am on 8/15/2008 Permalink

      Does AT&T have a 3G network in Maine yet? Also, do you find the 2.0 firmware update to be slower than that if the firmware on the original iPhone?

    • euicho 9:21 am on 8/15/2008 Permalink

      Unfortunately the 3G network won’t be rolled out in Maine until the end of the year, but that’s fast approaching. I’ve used 3G on my way down to NJ and for about a week while there, and its blazing fast!

      Yeah I have noticed some lag when using the keyboard that wasn’t there in the first iPhone, but that’s due to a bug in the 2.0 firmware (it’s happened to the old iPhones and iPod Touches too that upgraded to the 2.0 firmware) so that should be resolved with the next firmware release. Other than that I adore my new one though, I used the GPS constantly to get around NJ for my friends Jesse & Kristen’s wedding and it was a life saver (even though google maps was wrong a couple of times).

  • euicho 10:55 pm on 7/19/2008 Permalink | Reply
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    Testing the iphone theme 

    I’ve just installed a new theme while Riley looked over my work to make sure I didn’t mess anything up:

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    • Doody 11:14 pm on 7/22/2008 Permalink

      It works you may continue with what you were doing.

    • euicho 12:02 am on 7/23/2008 Permalink

      heheheh. Just upgraded both our blags to a newer wordpress version. front end looks the same but the admin area has some nice new features and is sexy lookin too!

  • euicho 1:05 pm on 4/7/2008 Permalink | Reply
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    You are not subscribed to EDGE 

    For the past 3 days I’d not had EDGE access on my iPhone. Out of the blue I started getting the error message “Could not activate EDGE: You are not subscribed to EDGE“. I tried many things without success, but finally got it to work! In order to make the information more available, I’ve decided to document it here.

    I’ll first tell you what I did so you don’t have to repeat it, or at the least can save it for last, but if you’re impatient just scroll to the end of this post. (More …)

     

  • euicho 10:23 pm on 9/5/2007 Permalink | Reply
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    iPod Touch – So Sexy! 

    OH GAWD TEH SEXY!!!

    iPod Touch

    I knew this was coming, especially in light of the iPhone and the steadily declining iPod shipments (thinning out their stocks), but to physically see it, in all it’s glory, is another thing all together. It comes with Wi-Fi, web browser, and all the other goodies that the iPhone has (sans cellular). I, for one, don’t mind keeping my phone as a phone and my iPod as an iPod, so the fact that the iPod Touch has all that stuff does better justify getting one rather than an iPhone.

    We also now have a new nano (that reminds me of the Zen V), and now plays video and has cover flow?! As if that wasn’t enough, the newly dubbed ‘iPod Classic’ is now all metal and comes in up to 160GB! Now that’s what I’m talkin’ about.
    Crazy times we live in my friends, crazy times…

     

    • Nyrath the nearly wise 8:12 pm on 9/12/2007 Permalink

      However, the only thing that annoys me is the inadequate memory. 16 gigs ain’t near enough.

      I’ve got several times that already on my 80 gig iPod video.

      I am tempted, though…

    • Luke 8:42 pm on 9/17/2007 Permalink

      yeah i agree with the memory i wouldn’t mind it being a bit thicker but the could have added a micro SD slot as well. anyways its still mad bangin’

  • euicho 4:51 pm on 1/17/2007 Permalink | Reply
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    VZ leaves NE 

    VZ exits Maine
     

    Noooooooooooooooooooooo!
     That rumored Verizon-Fairpoint deal has gone through.

    blah!
    Verizon has announced that it will be spinning off rural assets to FairPoint Communications. These include all assets in the states of Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont. The deal will close sometime in 2007 and is worth $2.7 billion. 1.6 million phone lines, 234,000 DSL subscribers, and 600,000 long-distance customers will be moved to FairPoint in Verizon’s effort to shed its low-margin lines in rural areas.

    For all the ribbing I tend to give Verizon, they do a hell of a job. I work with them every day maintaining over 1400 connections for schools and libraries throughout Maine, and the majority of the time, they provide great service and get things fixed quickly. I’ve worked with Fairpoint as well, though not nearly as often, and I can’t say the same for them…

    I imagine this is going to wreak hell on my job, and I can only hope consumers don’t have any trouble.

     
     

    • Doody 6:24 pm on 1/18/2007 Permalink

      Yeah that ought to be interesting for you guys for sure. I hope the new company will handle things as well as Verizon did. Will they be changing their cell-phone coverage?

    • Nyrath the nearly wise 12:02 am on 1/19/2007 Permalink

      You have my condolences…

  • euicho 11:45 pm on 10/11/2006 Permalink | Reply
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    Copper at Fiber Speeds 

    Imagine copper lines running at fiber optic speeds… yes, this could have huge implications.

    An Israeli consortium of telcos and companies like ECI Telecom, funded in part by the Israeli government, is attempting just that. Ars Technica has the big scoop:
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  • euicho 11:02 am on 2/16/2006 Permalink | Reply
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    Your Cellphone Lets the Government Track You 

    Following up on my post about FBI cell phone tapping, the FBI and U.S. DoJ have started tracking citizens without probable cause. Compounding this breach of our Civil Rights, two court decisions have split on the decision of whether this is legal. On January 17, one federal judge in Wisconsin rightfully ruled it was unlawful. Then just 9 days later, a Louisiana judge ruled the opposite.
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  • euicho 2:56 pm on 12/1/2005 Permalink | Reply
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    Pace to Rumsfeld: FACE! 

    Making Light reports – Marine Gen. Peter Pace, THE military man in Washington, openly defied Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, in public yesterday, after Rumsfeld tried to correct him.

    via Making Light
    He said soldiers who hear of but don’t see an incident should deal with it through superiors of the offending Iraqis.
    That’s when Rumsfeld stepped to the microphone and said, “I don’t think you mean they have an obligation to physically stop it. It’s to report it.”
    Pace then repeated to Rumsfeld that intervening when witnessing abuse is the order the troops must follow, not just reporting it.
    Do you know what we just saw? We just saw the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff tell the Secretary of Defense to sit down and shut up. In public. In front of reporters.

    I doubt Rumsfeld will resign. He doesn’t have that much tact. And yes, General Pace may lose his job, but the damage has been done…

     

  • euicho 5:01 pm on 11/15/2005 Permalink | Reply
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    FBI cell phone tapping 

    Evan called me a couple of days ago and asked me under what circumstances the FBI or local law enforcement agencies could tap cell phones, and whether any Joe A. Technophile could do it. I did a little research, and decided I’d share my findings with everyone.
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    • Jalbey 10:55 am on 11/17/2005 Permalink

      I’m alive…you send Evan to see if I am alive? I email you and nothing comes back, and you want to know if I’M ALIVE? :-P

      Things have been busy at work (that time of year before we ship) so I have had little time for updating. Anyway, I am alive, and you can talk about me all you want on Doody’s blog I still refuse to let you badger me into updating, I am a free man and I refuse to let anyone just think they can make me do what I dont want to anytime they want me to do som…ok I will update.

      Jalbey

    • euicho 2:24 pm on 11/17/2005 Permalink

      YAY! Jalbey’s alive!

      Yes, actually I *did* send him to go find you, lol. Badgering? Who’s badgering? Not me… noooOOOOooo never.

      Ahahahahahahahaha!
      *SPLASH*
      …

    • Jalbey 9:31 am on 11/18/2005 Permalink

      You got me to post; there are you all happy with yourselves now? I will just go sit in the corner and rock back in forth and mutter incoherently to myself, kind of like Peter did after Louis was the man…bastards.

      :-P

    • Kimba Shaw 1:04 pm on 12/6/2011 Permalink

      Phone tapping is stupid and an invasion of privacy.

  • euicho 5:15 pm on 11/10/2005 Permalink | Reply
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    Remember The Milk 

     

    When it comes to managing my life and all the random thoughts and tasks I have that fill it, I have many ways I have tried and new ones I am currently trying.

    For example, in the past I have…
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    • B 11:50 pm on 11/10/2005 Permalink

      wow, i totally need that
      i’m all about the sticky notes, and pieces of paper (which i carry around and add to until i get it done)

    • euicho 12:56 am on 11/11/2005 Permalink

      ah replace those sticky notes with the hipster pda! Its just notecards held together with a ring or butterfly clip. I use mine constantly to write down notes and stuff. I have a “To Do” card, a “To Get” card, and some reference cards with useful info, plus about 15 other blank cards in the back. When i fill up a To Do card, and cross everything off as done, I throw it away and start a new one. I call mine a hipster pda micro because I use these tiny cards:

      from MindBinders. They are only about a third the size of regular notecards and have a small footprint in my pocket. For a pen I have this amazing lil puppy: http://www.zebrapen.com/ball-tele.html

      read all about the hipster PDA idea from its source at 43Folders.com

    • Doody 2:54 am on 11/12/2005 Permalink

      Wow what a good idea. I am gonna sign up for that as soon as I have the time.

      I fall into one of the same categories as you do and write notes for myself that I then put in my pocket and then never look at again until it comes out all over my clothes in the laundry a week later.

  • euicho 9:18 pm on 3/19/2005 Permalink
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    Pearl has surgery 

    Sorry there havn’t been any posts this week. I hope I didn’t lose too many of my readers. I have been extremely swamped with homework and tests, along with Amme’s dogs being down here while her parents are down-state. Also our little rat, Pearl, went into surgery to get an ulcerated malignant mamalry tumor removed. You can see what it looked like, outlined in blue in the photo below:
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    • Jalbey 9:43 am on 3/21/2005 Permalink

      Sorry to hear about Pearl, I am glad that everything went great and she is doing better!

      P.S. I love the new forest scheme!!

    • euicho 3:23 pm on 3/22/2005 Permalink

      Thanks man :)

    • ev 2:20 am on 3/25/2005 Permalink

      Sorry about pearl. =-(
      what’s the deal you coming up friday or saturday? cuz I wanna hike into globecom… but jalbey’s been a pussy lately. DON”T DRIVE DOWN THERE DOOD! DON”T DOOD. what a pansy.

    • euicho 5:47 pm on 3/25/2005 Permalink

      lol. Hey, be nice to Jalb, Cap’n! I’d love to but B and Kelly are staying here tonite and i dunno if I wanna come up for just two days. We’ll see.

    • Doody 3:57 am on 3/26/2005 Permalink

      I hope to see you soon, and I wish the best for the baby rattie!!!

    • Johnny B 12:28 am on 3/27/2005 Permalink

      ouch.

      I just now read this.
      sorry to hear.
      on a side note Tom, I’ve got a show at 7pm at UMFK.
      drive up and see it damn you.

    • euicho 10:46 am on 3/28/2005 Permalink

      lol I’d love to man but I stayed in Bangor this weekend.
      Did you record it?

    • Doody 10:18 pm on 3/28/2005 Permalink

      Hey man, sorry I didn’t get to see you guys this weekend, but I went to see my Uncle Todd in Portland that I don’t see very much. I kinda wish you guys would have been able to come down, I had a hotel room all to myself so it would have been cool to have you guys around.

    • Doody 10:20 pm on 3/28/2005 Permalink

      ps I like the green a lot, but I am such a huge fan of the picture that you have on the standard blue I dunnow what to decide!

    • Bloggy 10:02 am on 3/30/2005 Permalink

      update me! i’m lonely!

    • ev 7:47 pm on 3/30/2005 Permalink

      yo just showing the gravatars to someone.

    • John Blanchette 12:46 am on 4/1/2005 Permalink

      it’s tommorow, Friday the 1st at 7pm

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