OCD Much? Normalizing Your OS X Address Book

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While working on another project that will be modifying my OS X Address Book, I happened to notice that all of my phone numbers were being output in a non-standard way on vCards. Rather than dealing with it in subsequent steps, I decided to resolve the issue at the source (in other words, my other project ...

Quote From Slashdot Comments

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This is exactly why I have an iPhone. Not because it's the best phone available, which it might or might not be depending on who you ask, but because there's a guy in Cupertino with a black turtleneck, a borrowed liver, and a really shitty attitude who owns the exact same phone I do, and who ...

Privacy in the Modern Era Experiment Update

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Well, I've got three volunteers for my privacy experiment: a friend of mine I see at least every other week and have known since high school, a person who I met through a friend that I've spent some time with, and a person I've never met who is from the UK. I'll be getting back in ...

Facebook's Friend List Fail

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From Facebook: UPDATE on Thursday, Dec. 10: In response to your feedback, we've improved the Friend List visibility option described below. Now when you uncheck the "Show my friends on my profile" option in the Friends box on your profile, your Friend List won't appear on your profile regardless of whether people are viewing it while ...

Abusing Facebook's "Publicly Available Information"

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<sarcasm> I have to say, one of my favorite new features of Facebook is their mandated publicly available information. This is a great way to help me build out my data-mining operation by augmenting my data with Facebook's social graph. As an added bonus, if I find a particularly interesting target I can simply look up ...