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Today I’m headed from Oklahoma City back to San Francisco. Before I arrived at the airport, I downloaded the User Agent Switcher for FireFox and added a profile for the iPhone. A lot of airports allow free wifi access for iPhones, and the User Agent will allow you to pretend that your computer is a iPhone. And it works perfectly.

I tried connecting to the airport’s wifi without the User Agent addon enabled, and I was promptly asked to pay for access. I turned on User Agent, selected the iPhone profile, and viola! Free wifi. After 15 minutes I’m asked to watch a 15 second add, and then access continues.

Knowledge is glorious.

Here are the iPhone Agent settings you need to use once you’ve downloaded the User Agent addon:

• Description: iPhone
• User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en)
• App Name: AppleWebKit/420+ (KHTML, like Gecko)
• App Version: Version/3.0
• Platform: Mobile/1A542a Safari/419.3

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I hated to leave behind my OSx86 machines as I headed to San Francisco. On the other hand, my new employers have provided me with a MacBook Pro. I will miss dabbling in OSx86 (and nothing trumps hands-on, under-the-hood experience. On the other hand, I love OS-X in its true, brilliant glory.

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I recently took part in the Hey, Look It! Project run by Jeff Clark. Basically, a group of us picked a day (January 16th), and from the moment we woke up to the moment we fell asleep we took a picture every 10 minutes. For the most part it held up, though there is an occasional lapse (due to work + boss related factors). A book of the project is soon coming out, so wander over to Hey, Look It!

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