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How to hide unauthorized tethering from AT&T on your iPhone

Wow, this is hilarious. Redmondpie is reporting that iPhoneDownloadBlog has discovered how AT&T figures out that a user is tethering their phone when they haven’t actually purchased a tether data plan. It turns out that AT&T routes normal tethered data … Continue reading

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Washington, D.C. street tree map

See all those colorful dots up there? That’s every single street tree location in Washington, D.C., mapped out by CaseyTrees using data from Urban Forestry Administration which plants and maintains the trees in the area. If you want to see … Continue reading

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Redesigning medical data

Thomas Goetz says, “Better health is not a science problem, it’s an information problem”, and in this TEDMED Talk he talks about how simply redesigning healthcare forms and instructions can dramatically benefit the health of people. The talk is interesting … Continue reading

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Talk and surf the web with the AT&T iPhone

Maybe it’s because I live in NYC but I actually have very little problems making a call on AT&T. All the commotion about dropped calls and spotty service are pretty non-existent where I live. But obviously, I know this isn’t … Continue reading

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David McCandless graphs out Facebook break-ups

David McCandless and Lee Byron scoured public Facebook records for the words “break up” or “broken up” and graphed out the data in the handy chart above. Their data mining allowed them to visually see when couples tend to break … Continue reading

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Verizon iPhone will be retarded, basically

So here we go. It’s all but confirmed now that sometime early next year Verizon will start carrying a version of the iPhone 4. It’s a big announcement for those wanting to keep the iPhone but not on AT&T’s network. … Continue reading

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