Untrusted Twitter

untrusted server certificateWhy is Twitter’s SSL certificate not trusted by the iPhone? Because of this, I can’t log in via Safari. Sure, Tweetie has eliminated my need for logging in this way, but I’m still a bit surprised that this hasn’t been fixed.

January 7, 2009
Posted in Web — Scott Johnson @ 1:13 pm

TTAC: Jonny Lieberman Only

I get tired of digging through the chaff at The Truth About Cars sometimes. It takes a small bit of effort to determine the author of an article from my comfortable Google Reader interface. It’s not that big of a deal, but sometimes there’s so much crap that I end up missing a good Loverman post. I finally got fed up this afternoon and took a few seconds to apply Yahoo Pipes to the problem. The result is an RSS feed of only Jonny’s posts. It’s not a total replacement for my subscription to the full TTAC feed, but I certainly won’t be missing any more of the all-important Loverman posts.

September 5, 2008
Posted in Cars,Web — Scott Johnson @ 11:55 am

Google Chrome: Aw, Snap!

Aw, Snap!
Google Chrome won’t run properly on my work PC. Whenever it loads, I get the sad folder saying, “Aw, Snap!” No matter whether I’m trying to access a local html file, a local image, or a remote site, I always get the same result.

Update: It turns out that there’s a conflict between Chrome and Symantec Endpoint Protection. Adding --no-sandbox to the command line bypasses the bug. It’s not a great solution, but it’s got chrome working on my work PC for now.

Update 2: Here’s Symantec’s current official response.

September 3, 2008
Posted in Google,Web — Scott Johnson @ 1:31 pm

Brilliant

CNN's Flash Player error messageCNN’s Flash support isn’t quite future proof. Actually, in light of the current Flash 10 Beta, it’s not present proof. I’m running the new Flash player because Flash 9 won’t play videos in Firefox 3 for me. Flash 10 Beta restores my ability to pull down as much video off of the intertubes as I desire, except for the video on CNN.com. The error message says “8 or higher”, so you would think that 10 would work, right? Please, CNN, let me watch your videos.

August 20, 2008
Posted in Rants,Web — Scott Johnson @ 10:14 am

Stick Together

stick together In support of Engadget Mobile‘s campaign against evil.

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April 5, 2008
Posted in Mobile,Web — Scott Johnson @ 4:48 pm