Over the past week or so there's been a furore about location tracking in iOS. While it initially appeared to be a fresh discovery of machiavellian intrusion, the story's a bit more complicated than that.
Archive for 2011
Space Honker v.0.1 for Mac
On Thursday, Farhad Manjoo of Slate vented his spleen about those of us who use two spaces after their full stops, a.k.a. "periods". This seems to have triggered a minor kerfuffle, though not for the first time. While I disagree with a few of his points, the premise is sound. Unfortunately I, like many others, have double-spacing ingrained. This app might help.
Using Google Earth to geotag photos in Aperture 3
After a couple of years of painful attempts to geotag all my photos, I've finally got something that might end up working: a small hack that grabs the current location from Google Earth and updates the selected images within Aperture (3.1). This post explains it, and how to install it.