http://www.spiggott.com Fri, 11 Jun 2010 21:03:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It seems like the location-based social media apps like Foursquare, Gowalla and BrightKite are finally beginning to pick up steam. Starbucks was an early adopter of Foursquare, and now I'm starting to see more and more small businesses take advantage of the opportunities that are being afforded by this new ... http://www.spiggott.com/2010/06/11/location-based-apps-picking-up-steam/ Apple's Worldwide Developer's Conference sells out for the third straight year in a record-breaking eight days. Not a good sign for Flash. http://www.spiggott.com/2010/05/07/wwdc-sold-out-2/ Look at the rise in the term "SXSW" over the last few days on Twitter: http://www.spiggott.com/2010/03/14/sxsw-trending-on-twitter/ I got back to my hotel room this evening and attempted to have a video chat with my wife and kids. While fun, the video quality on my end was horrendous - which prompted me to do some more testing. I ran a test on Speedtest.net and got pretty awesome ... http://www.spiggott.com/2010/03/13/4g-performance-part-iii-more-from-austin/ My first road trip with the Overdrive and I had pretty high hopes. I'm at SXSW in Austin, so I figured bandwidth would be a problem for AT&T given the number of iPhone toting geeks concentrated within a several block radius. I thought I'd be in the clear with 4G ... http://www.spiggott.com/2010/03/13/sierra-wireless-overdrive-3g4g-performance-part-ii/ A couple of days ago, I ordered a Sierra Wireless Overdrive 3G/4G wireless hotspot from Sprint. I've only had the chance to use it a couple of times so I'm withholding judgement on performance until I've tried to use it in real world situations. I live in Raleigh, NC which ... http://www.spiggott.com/2010/03/06/sierra-wireless-overdrive-3g-4g-performance/ I monitor my network with PRTG Network Monitor. After recently upgrading our Xserve from 10.5.4 to 10.5.7 (server), its status changed in PRTG to "in alarm" and was unable to connect via SNMP to collect any data. It turns out that the default configuration of the SNMP agent changed with ... http://www.spiggott.com/2009/09/10/fixing-snmp-in-mac-os-x-server-10-5-7/ John Siracusa has posted an exhaustive review of Apple's latest OS release, Snow Leopard. Great read if you really want to learn why you need to upgrade. http://www.spiggott.com/2009/09/03/in-depth-review-of-snow-leopard/ Howard, Merrell & Partners recently launched the redesigned NutriDense.com. See before and after images after the jump. Before: After: http://www.spiggott.com/2009/08/07/hmp-launches-redesigned-nutridense-com/ Twitter experienced complete failure today due to a massive DDoS attack. It appears to be under attack again now as it is completely unresponsive. Kinda scary to think that web services are that vulnerable. As more and more of our lives move to the digital space (communication, banking, etc) we ... http://www.spiggott.com/2009/08/06/twitter-fail/