Some cool old phones at the GDGT event

Filed under:blog,New York City — posted by joeNYC on June 28, 2011 @ 2:47 pm

I was at the GDGT event at the Altman building yesterday, and one of the vendors had brought a bunch of vintage mobile phones.
Check them out:

Most commonly used Iphone passcode lock codes

Filed under:blog — posted by joeNYC on June 21, 2011 @ 5:18 pm

I am just posting some information that was already spelled out in Daniel Amitay’s bloghere.

I want to reiterate that just having a passcode lock your phone regardless if its an iphone or an android, is not enough if you use the following passcodes:
1234
0000
2580
1111
5555
5683
0853
2222
1212
1998

These are known as the most common lock codes and they will most certainly be the first codes someone will try to use if your phone ends up in the wrong hands. The reason why 10 is an important number is that some phone can be set to erase the personal data after 10 unsuccessful attempts.

Check out this graph:

out of 204,508 recorded passcodes, the top ten most common were:

passcode graph

Tie the knots, untie the knots…

Filed under:blog,New York City — posted by joeNYC on June 10, 2011 @ 9:56 am

On a walk through the almost freshly completed Washington Square park I passed the end of a performance piece by artist Ujin Lee.

Picture of the piece

I found it interesting how she used audience participation as a part of the performance. As good at paraphrasing as I am you can read about what performance/piece was about here.

Here is a small photo of what was displayed during the performance.
Picture of the piece

Problems with quality control….

Filed under:blog — posted by joeNYC on June 6, 2011 @ 12:16 pm

I love drinking cola from the bottle, even the little ones….
When I bought a six-pack of the little guys a few weeks ago, and when I went to stock the fridge I noticed a discrepancy in how much soda was actually in the bottle, and they were not the same…



image: detail of installation by Bronwyn Lace