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Josh Fruhlinger is a writer and editor who lives in Baltimore.

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  • Commented on How Apple is breaking free of Google's Maps (and maybe Google, entirely)

    I'd be very sad if transit directions went away -- to my knowledge Google Maps is the only service that offers this.

    5 days ago

  • Commented on End-of-year tax tips for freelance techies: Hack the calendar

    Again, consult your tax advisor, but my understanding is that most freelancers use cash accounting methods, which are based on the dates when cash is actually outlaid. Certainly in my freelancing life I've always just gone by the 1099s I get from clients, which account for money in the year in which the check was cut, not when the work was peformed; it's the 1099 that goes to the IRS. That does mean, though, that if your client cuts you a check on December 30, 2011 but you don't receive it and cash it until January 5, 2012, you need to count it towards your 2011 income.

    5 months ago

  • Commented on Jon Bon Jovi says he's not dead. The Internet says he is. Who's right?

    The blog has already broken its next scoop: That Megan Fox is HIV positive! There's no ads on the page, so I assume that rather than trying to make quick Google AdSense money the blog is really some kind of research project to prove how gullible people are.

    5 months ago

  • Commented on Google Currents vs the skepticism of the Internet

    Pete, is there some trick to getting it to sync properly with your Google Reader account? I've entered my Google credentials but when I go to the Google Reader tab under "trending" I just get a "Couldn't connect to server" error.

    5 months ago

  • Commented on Apple threatens tiny Luxembourg bistro AppleADay

    The reference to Belgium has now been removed -- apologies!

    6 months ago

  • Commented on iOS 5, day three: Photo Stream is nice, but won't quite do what I want

    Hi Mosh4him -- Yes, you need to upgrade 10.7.2 before any aspect of iCloud (including Photo Stream) works on your Mac.

    7 months ago

  • Commented on iOS 5, day one: Why can't notifications and reminders be friends?

    Hey Mark! Unfortunately, I don't think you're going to like either of my answers to your questions. There's no indication in the menu bar or anything that you've got a pending notification of any sort. However, you can always check your notification center (swipe the top menu bar down w/your thumb) and see any notifications you might have missed. And second, as near as I can tell a white banner with black text is what you get. I agree it's not the most aesthetically pleasing.

    7 months ago

  • Commented on Microsoft kills Silverlight and other plug-ins in Windows 8

    Though it's not made entirely clear in the article, he's referring to Safari-on-iOS, which doesn't allow plug-ins. That's because the comparison is to the Metro version of IE for Windows 8, which will run on Win8 tablets. Desktop IE 10, like desktop Safari, will still allow plug-ins.

    8 months ago

  • Commented on A 1999 movie tries to predict 2005 technology, fails miserably?

    I love the way Kris Kristofferson says "illogical." It's like "I have no idea what the hell any the words in this script mean, but I'm gonna say 'em anyway, 'cause I'm a damn pro."

    9 months ago

  • Commented on Star Wars meets The Doctor

    I am finally starting to watch these on Netflix and was surprised to see the one with Simon Pegg in it last night. D'you think he's the only actor to have been in both the Doctor Who and Star Wars franchises?

    10 months ago

  • Commented on HBO Go off to a good start, but needs to be on more devices

    What I'd really like to see is an option to subscribe to HBO Go without having to subscribe to the actual channel. We don't have cable but HBO has enough great original stuff that it might be worth it, even if they charge more than the premium you'd pay for HBO on your cable bill. Sadly, I think that Time Warner is way too invested in the cable business as it is to take that leap.

    11 months ago

  • Commented on The 10 worst cloud outages (and what we can learn from them)

    Forget "the cloud"; the big lesson here about letting other vendors be in charge of mission-critical aspects of your business.

    11 months ago

  • Commented on Microsoft to buy RIM? An epic fiasco in the making

    Nilanjan -- Sure, but that leaves them with the same two bad choices I outline above. They can keep selling these enterprise customers BlackBerry products, which have been less and less in demand over the past few years. Maybe MS thinks they'll infuse money and talent and make them better, but that still splits their mobile efforts across two entirely separate platforms. Their other option is to transition BlackBerry customers to something WP7-based, maybe building BES features into Exchange. That will take years, millions of dollars, and will annoy most of the enterprise customers that they're supposedly trying to grab. It's possible that they figure that even if they hold onto 10 percent of RIM's business customers out of inertia they'll still be ahead of where they are now. But that seems unlikely to me that they'll make back whatever nine or ten-figure sum they lay out for the initial purchase price.

    11 months ago

  • Commented on Breakfast links: Verizon, let us tether

    Interesting, Darrin, but you can't use the same data plan for this and your phone, can you? I think the gripe is that if you're already paying for X GB of data a month through your phone's data plan, you should be able to use that for data flowing to your computer if you want to.

    11 months ago

  • Commented on Where the Real Android GPL Violations Are

    Probably worth mentioning in this context that some vendors *do* release the source code -- Asus seems to have done so earlier this year, for instance.

    12 months ago

  • Commented on SXSW: The gentle Adobe vs. Canvas smackdown

    Glad to hear it!

    1 year ago

  • Commented on Apple delays release of LPGL WebKit code

    Looking over the Slashdot commentary on this yields two contradictory sorts of responses: "Just because Google does it doesn't make it OK for Apple to do it, you fanboys!" and "Typical anti-Apple slam piece!" It seems that Apple, Google, and open source make for a perfect storm where people read things as an attack on whatever beliefs about the situation they happen to hold, whether that's intended or not.

    1 year ago

  • Commented on Cooking in the future and other tech predictions

    Love the AT&T ones set to the smooth vocal stylings of Mr. Tom Selleck.

    1 year ago

  • Commented on Royal Wedding parody: Hit or Miss?

    Some of the more recognizable people in the vid -- Harry, William, Kate, Philip -- are actually pretty good likenesses -- do you think they went through the trouble of CGI'ing their faces or just hired ringers?

    1 year ago

  • Commented on The Rise of Personalized Spam

    I got an email the other day that appeared to be of the classic a "Person X has invited you to join Facebook" variety. The person was someone I didn't know, and the email was in French, so I was sure it was spam -- but in the "Other Facebook people you might now" section of the email were three people who are my Facebook friends -- and, even weirder, the email was sent to an address that's isn't the one I use for my Facebook login! How much data mining do these people do?

    2 years ago

  • Commented on SXSW: Making money in the age of the Internet: Can scarcity be maintained?

    Right you are! I fixed.

    2 years ago

  • Commented on The wait is over: All hail the iPad, for only $499

    Yes, I forgot to put that in the post! It's added now.

    2 years ago

  • Commented on Apple doesn't owe you anything

    Right you are! I fixed!

    3 years ago

  • Commented on Vindication! iPhone to stay on AT&T, forever

    Actually, I mentioned said migration in the article itself. Rollout will being in 2010, but only in a few select cities. Verizon will not sell a phone that will only work in four or five urban areas -- any phones they sell will have to be compatible with both their new network and their old one, which the current iPhone is not. 2013 is probably earliest we can expect to see 4G coverage wide enough to reasonably sell GSM-only phones.

    3 years ago

  • Commented on Google Voice isn't VOIP, and other things you learn from readers

    nameroc, it might strike someone from outside as silly, but it's standard procedure in the U.S. All wireless carriers in the U.S. charge for minutes you talk on the phone -- it doesn't matter if they're incoming or outgoing.Different cultures of payments arise in different places for seemingly arbitrary reasons. I'll never forget the first time I went to Europe and visited a friend who was living in an apartment in Rome with several other people; everyone was keeping meticulous records of their phone calls because local phone service was metered. That boggled my mind because local phone service on a landline is unlimited in the U.S. as a matter of course. Now that mobile phones have risen as the de facto standard phone service, the shoe is on the other foot in terms of silliness, but there you are.

    3 years ago

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