iPhone 
iPhone Jabber(XMPP) Clients – Missing Features
I have begun researching a potential Jabber(XMPP) client for use on my iPhone. Being a developer and the maintainer of XMPP services at my workplace, I came up with the following feature list that I felt was needed in a potential client. (more…)
Humor 
Google Vowel Outage
If you logged into Gmail over the last hour (or visited the Gmail homepage), you probably noticed that something looked a bit off: all the vowels are missing. We realize this makes things difficult for all of you who rely on Gmail — whether at home or at work — and we’re incredibly sorry. We take morphological issues like this extremely seriously, so we want to let you all know what happened and what we’re Read more…
Electronics
Sparkfun Free Day Over
Free Day is over at SparkFun.com. Over $100k was given away in just under 1 hour and 45 minutes. According to their site they had over 1,000 orders and nearly 70,000 unique visitors.
Mac OS X
OpenSSH Public Key Authentication
Key Generation ssh-keygen -q -f ~/.ssh/id_rsa -t rsa Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase): … Enter same passphrase again: … Key Distribution # first, upload public key from client to server scp ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub user@server.example.org: # next, setup the public key on server cat ~/id_rsa.pub >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys chmod 600 ~/.ssh/authorized_keys rm ~/id_rsa.pub Create Public Key From Private Key ssh-keygen -y -f ~/.ssh/id_rsa > ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub