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Source: Release Candidate One
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This is an awesome post about having a sort of “Services” menu for the iPhone so you can take things from one application and use them in another (for example, send an e-mail with the selected text or upload a selected image to Facebook). Having a universal menu such as this would be amazing because it would reduce the need for app developers to create these “droplets” and services on their own and simply make something that any application can use right out of the box. I hope Apple’s listening.

Read it for yourself, and if the jargon gets to you, just watch the video.

Read the news in this article (Source: boston.com).

The new data plans from AT&T ($15/month for 200MB, $25/month for 2 GB) were announced today (aka, no more unlimited data plans) but only applies to new customers. I was at first bothered by the news, but then I checked my usage and realized that I used no more than 500MB in any given month (I’m around my computer quite a bit and I use Wi-Fi networks whenever possible). Also, since the old unlimited plan is grandfathered in, I don’t have to worry about changing from unlimited. But to think that I could possibly save $5 a month by dropping my cap to 2 GB when I don’t even use 25% of that in a given month. AT&T stated that about 98% of its customers will do just fine under then 2 GB plan while 65% of customers will be fine under then 200 MB plan.

Perhaps they should have had these plans in the first place so they wouldn’t have as much of a dangerously bad reputation. But now they do for new customers. What would be especially nice is if I spent the majority of my time in a Wi-Fi network – then I’d only use up to 200 MB and thus would be able to save $15 a month. I mean, I’m not streaming video or doing anything seriously heavy duty on my phone – that’s what a laptop or desktop computer is for. I think the bigger hit is really for the iPad users who will be streaming video and watch things on their device that take up a lot of bandwidth.

So why isn’t there enough space to fit this in the event bubble? (Just add a space and a • or something to get the whole thing to show.)

Source: boston.com
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A really awesome article on how traffic lights work. Give it a read if you’re into this kind of stuff.

Source: Wired.com
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Soon everybody — including your uncle Louie and that guy you hated from your last job — had a profile.

And Facebook realized it owned the network.

Then Facebook decided to turn “your” profile page into your identity online — figuring, rightly, that there’s money and power in being the place where people define themselves. But to do that, the folks at Facebook had to make sure that the information you give it was public.

So in December, with the help of newly hired Beltway privacy experts, it reneged on its privacy promises and made much of your profile information public by default. That includes the city that you live in, your name, your photo, the names of your friends and the causes you’ve signed onto.

An article from Wired about how Facebook’s privacy is going downhill. I’ve always wanted to leave Facebook but I feel like I’ll disconnect too much if I do. Maybe it’s still worth it, though?

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