I'm David Chartier and this is just about everything I do from across the web that people might actually think is cool. This tumblelog collects my writings from Ars Technica, the best darn technology publication this side of your ISP, as well as a few of my own sites like my 1FPS blog about technology and culture, My personal site, and my Flickr photo stream. I'll post other interestingness, pictures and choice quotes here as well. You can find me at quite a few more places across the web too, including Twitter, del.icio.us and digg, but for now I'm just including the things I write and create in this tumblelog. Enjoy.
30 Jul 08
Bowsers Minions complain, question leadership →
30 Jul 08
A few tricks, apps for disabling lengthy iPhone backups →

Are epic iPhone backups backups taking the bounce out of your Dock? Here are a few tricks and tools for improving the situation, but they aren’t without some caveats.

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30 Jul 08
Suspect in "biggest military hack" loses extradition case → British hacker Gary McKinnon illegally snooped around computers across multiple US military departments in search of proof that aliens exist. After taking his fight against US extradition to…
29 Jul 08
Clever musical promo for Eureka →
28 Jul 08
Google Calendar and iCal can sync for free, with caveats → Keeping iCal and Google Calendar in sync just got a little easier, thanks to a feature that Google quietly unveiled today. It’s a welcome effort for productivity enthusiasts, but as with most “free”…
28 Jul 08
Cha-Ching 2 beta brings major UI additions to your finances →

The new version of Cha-Ching for Mac OS X will bring useful features like easier transaction recording, better bank record importing, to-do support, and even Cover Flow to financial management.

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28 Jul 08
iPhone, App Store problems causing more than just headaches →

Between crashing software and disgruntled-but-gagged developers, the hype around iPhone OS 2.0 is quickly dissolving into unrest from both sides of the App Store.

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26 Jul 08
Chicago, here we come →
25 Jul 08
Apple releases AirPort Extreme Update for Tiger users →

Tiger users experiencing audio problems when connected to AirPort Extreme stations will want to pay attention to this software update from Apple.

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25 Jul 08
Apple says, "Want to hack iPhones for a living?" →

The iPhone’s security is under fire, so Apple’s stepping up its game. Want to get paid to hack the iPhone? Apply for Apple’s new iPhone Security Engineer position!

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25 Jul 08
Scrabble owners spell L-A-W-S-U-I-T for Facebook knockoff → All’s fair in social networking and addictive casual gaming—until you rip off a copyrighted game, of course. Hasbro Inc. is suing the creators of a popular Facebook game called Scrabulous, which…
25 Jul 08
Hands on: Yahoo misses mark with Zimbra Desktop office suite → Yahoo has leveraged its acquisition of online collaboration suite Zimbra and introduced Yahoo Zimbra Desktop, an offline client for its services that brings IMAP to Yahoo e-mail. The suite also…
24 Jul 08
Facebook developer conference yields promises, not releases → Facebook announced a number of significant improvements to its application platform and previewed more of how Facebook Connect may change the definition of social networking. Too bad none of this…
24 Jul 08
Poor man's Exchange: MobileMe supports IDLE for e-mail → Sure, MobileMe has been disqualified from its original “Exchange for the rest of us” tagline. For desktop e-mail users, however, the service actually does support the instant delivery of new…
23 Jul 08
Pedias of world beware: Google Knol now open to the public → Knol is Google’s approach to wikis that focuses on genuine content from verified authors—and paying said authors for their time. The new product is drawing attention and scrutiny from nearly every…