by Ryan Parman • November 2, 2008 • Apple, Design, Technology • No comments
Recently, I became the owner of a shiny new black, 16GB iPhone 3G. I’ve had a BlackBerry Pearl (8100) for the past 2 years, and the iPhone is a significantly better device for me. Here’s why. For starters, I’m an avid Mac user. I’ve spent many years on Mac and Windows systems, and I overwhelmingly [...]
by Ryan Parman • April 9, 2008 • Design, Software, Technology • 1 comments
Twitter has tweaked their design as of this morning, and they added a link titled “Tell us your story,” in which they ask about your thoughts as a Twitter user. Here’s what I had to say. I’m an information junkie with a limited attention span. Twitter has all of the interesting links and thoughts of [...]
by Ryan Parman • April 13, 2006 • Apple, TV and Movies, Technology • No comments
With all of the recent hoopla about Sony dropping the UMD format (here and here), it’s little wonder why. The reason? This Think Secret posting gives all the explanation we need: Cinemanow bills itself as “the #1 legal movie download store” and sells movies a-la-carte, but for the same price, if not higher, in some [...]
by Ryan Parman • March 26, 2006 • Code, Projects, Software, Syndication, Technology • No comments
RSS and Atom feeds that aren’t either UTF-8 or ISO-8859-1 have proven difficult to find, so I’m calling out to all of you. If you read or publish feeds that are in a character set other than these two, please post them here in the comments. We’ve just finished adding iconv support to SimplePie, and [...]
by Ryan Parman • March 22, 2006 • Browsers, Creating Websites, Software, Technology • No comments
For those who hadn’t yet heard, there is an updated version of Internet Explorer 7 available. If you want to run it in standalone mode, Jon Galloway’s IE7 Launcher will do the trick nicely. Lots of information can be found about IE7, specifically improved CSS compliance (hasn’t yet been updated with the current build information, [...]
by Ryan Parman • November 25, 2005 • Apple, Music, Personal, TV and Movies, Technology • 2 comments
Ryan discusses how awesome his wife is for getting him an iPod 5G.
by Ryan Parman • October 19, 2005 • Apple, Browsers, Technology, Website • 2 comments
Ryan makes his download archive available to the public.
by Ryan Parman • October 18, 2005 • Music, Technology • No comments
Ryan discusses his music habits and how they’ve changed over the years.
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