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The “New” Flickr App for iPhone
Just got the “new” flickr app for iPhone – finally I don’t have to use other photography services just because they had a cool app.
No, Flickr doesn’t have all the cool & fancy filters – but the app is much more functional than it has been.
- Browse
- Upload – cannot upload “video”
- Manage
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U.S. Mobile Phone Market Share
Never quite realized Samsung was so far ahead of Apple and that the 5 major players in the US Mobile Phone Market are:
- Samsung – 26.3%
- Apple – 17.8%
- LG – 17.6%
- Motorola – 11%
- HTC – 6%
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Big Data
My Notes
- Hadoop
- Hadoop local vs “in the cloud” (i.e., EC2)
- Need EC2 CLI (on local host) – http://aws.amazon.com/developertools/351
- Hadoop local vs “in the cloud” (i.e., EC2)
- Hive vs Pig vs HBase
- MapReduce
Books
- Hadoop in Action by Chuck Lam (Mannin)
- Hadoop Operations by Eric Sammer (O’Reilly)
- Programming Hive by Capriolo, Wampler, Rutherglen (O’Reilly)
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DB Programming
DB not limited to MySQL and Postgress but includes Redis, MongoDB, elasticsearch etc.
The goal is to find the lowest possible tool – i.e., scheel commands would be the lowest and dedicated DB tool would be the highest. Python, Ruby, PHP would be on the lower end of the middle and Java would be on the higher.
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DB Client
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iPad Mini
Definitely glad & excited that the iPad Mini is finally officially announced. Unfortunately, starting at $329 it is priced about $80 more than I was hoping / expecting. When other’s (i.e., Amazon, Google) have similar products priced at about $200, I was really hoping Apple would not price the Mini at more than $250.
But since the regular iPad is still starting at $500, I guess this is a good compromise. Actually this is a good – because now I have more reason to look into the Nexus 7.
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- iPad Mini Overview – Apple.com
- iPad Mini Announcement at Apple Event: Smaller 7.9 Inch Screen, Reduced Price – abcnews.com at YouTube
Backup DNS
Backup or secondary or redundant DNS Service setup.
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Testing a Quick Connection to Facebook, Twitter
I need to be able to test a connection to Twitter from various systems to troubleshoot an connect issue from a particular instance. A very simple CURL command would be perfect, but if I try to get anything more than just a page (of a user I already know), it seems I need to authenticate. To make things more complicated, basic authentication has been discontinued since the introduction of OAUTH.
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Blogger Mobile – Finally
Finally got a mobile app to update & manage my blogs from my iPhone.
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