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iMessage: Are you doing it wrong?

iMessage: Are you doing it wrong?

Over the past few weeks I’ve seen quite a few ridiculous comments on forums about people wanting particular iMessage email addresses for each iDevice they have. You need to think if that’s how you really want to use iMessage. That’s certainly not what it was designed to solve. If you’ve been living under a rock, iMessage is one of the new features Apple added to iOS 5 and is essentially free messaging across your Apple devices. If you take email…

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Live weather on your iPhone/iPad from Weather Display

Live weather on your iPhone/iPad from Weather Display

In case you don’t know I run a citizens weather station at my parents house in Blacktown, NSW, Australia. Its codename is CW9313 (Citizens Weather 9313). You can read more about the weather station itself over here. Basically the weather station updates the main console every 2.5 seconds and then every 5 seconds the computer connected to the console generates a small text file called the clientraw.txt and uploads this to a web server. A flash based application at http://liveweather.evansmith.info…

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