Archive for January, 2009

Show Git branch in your terminal

Tuesday, January 13th, 2009

steve.blog » Show Git branch in your terminal.

A Strange Macworld Expo

Tuesday, January 13th, 2009

From the Desk of David Pogue – A Strange Macworld Expo – NYTimes.com.

NIN’s CC-Licensed Best-Selling MP3 Album

Monday, January 12th, 2009

NIN’s CC-Licensed Best-Selling MP3 Album – Joi Ito’s Web.

Rumor – The Mac Mini and something “huge” to come from Apple this month? – Appletell

Monday, January 12th, 2009

Rumor – The Mac Mini and something “huge” to come from Apple this month? – Appletell.

Hard to tell if there actually is some truth to these rumors or not.

Making Highrise faster with memcached

Friday, January 9th, 2009

Making Highrise faster with memcached – (37signals).

Slow DNS lookups with Comhem

Tuesday, January 6th, 2009

This morning I finally got tired of the slow internet at home and after a bit of research I realized that DNS lookups are ridiculous slow.

Using Comhem’s DNS server I got this

$ dig @83.255.245.10 www.lundbacken.net

;; Query time: 4131 msec

And using OpenDNS I got this

$ dig @208.67.220.220 www.lundbacken.net

;; Query time: 108 msec

Needless to say I’m using OpenDNS for now!

The untold millions

Saturday, January 3rd, 2009

The untold millions – (37signals).

Spotify scrobbles

Saturday, January 3rd, 2009

Almost immediately after launch we started getting heaps of requests from people who wanted to be able to scrobble the music they were playing on Spotify to Last.fm (Last.fm is a cool music recommendation site for those of you who don’t know). The demand was so high that people started creating their own solutions to scrobble, which were cool but a little hard to install and run for the average user.

So today we are really excited to announce that we’ve added scobbling support directly into Spotify, no more need to install any other software.

Spotify scrobbles – Spotify.

UIQ går i konkurs

Friday, January 2nd, 2009

UIQ går i konkurs – IDG.se.