Recently, Google started using a new Word-type document format for Google Docs. While this is good for most people, I find that it’s very constrained for certain types of documents that I work on – specifically, the show notes we use for the podcasts. I find that the Word-type format is very constrained whereas the old format is very open and free form.
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Apple today is releasing its latest operating system for the iPhone, named iOS 4. While it’s meant to run on all iPhones that are available, not all iPhones will have all the features of iOS 4. To see a breakdown of the features each iPhone type will have, click here. Before you upgrade, here are some things you need to do.
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One of the things we like about Geekistry is the interaction we have with fellow geeks during the live recording of the podcast. The commentary from the chat room is a virtual way for us to ‘geek-out’ with you and include you in our conversation. We’ve had so much fun chatting during the live recordings of the podcast that we want to expand the interaction: we now have our very own IRC chat channel on GeekShed.net! We’re extending the invitation to you to come hang with us and each other. #Geekistry – where geeks chat.
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Here’s something many of us have done: Twitter DMs come to our phone via text messages and we reply to them, thinking they’re going to be sent back as DMs, but instead they’re sent as public tweets. You’ve probably seen them yourself, disjointed tweets like “see you then”, or “Bob’s a <blankety-blank>”. I wrote a few myself, which were thankfully not embarrassing at all. Once the tweet goes out at the speed of fail to the internet, you now have to find the fastest way to delete that tweet. I decided to write up a few tips for avoiding that mistake the next time you want to talk about Spandex.
As we mentioned in the show last night and I posted on Twitter last week, AT&T has been bumping up people’s upgrade dates in preparation for the new iPhone which is supposed to be announced today at Apple’s WWDC at 10am PT (1pm ET). By dialing *639# into your iPhone, you’ll get a text message back telling you if you’re eligible for an upgrade. As you can see from the composite photo I made of two responses I got a few weeks apart, I was originally eligible in November, and today I can upgrade immediately.
