Author: Aulia Masna

Former tech journo, used to write for Macworld, DailySocial, e27. Ex , ran a national startup initiative program in Indonesia. Very much into the news.

So this is @irene. The real Irene.

At the beginning of last week, people began tweeting messages to me to, somehow, communicate with Hurricane Irene. In response, on Thursday, I posted "Btw, tweeting messages to @irene doesn’t deliver any messages to the hurricane. Sorry.“

Friends started retweeting the post, and more and more people started seeing it and following my account. By Friday morning, that tweet was reshared more than 100 times. I didn’t think much of it.

In case you missed it, here’s a collection of @irene’s entertaining tweets during the hurricane that said hi to the eastern seaboard of the United States.

So this is @irene. The real Irene.

Comex to start an internship at Apple

It’s been really, really fun, but it’s also been a while and I’ve been getting bored. So, the week after next I will be starting an internship with Apple.

Nicholas Allegra, creator of JailbreakMe, a teenager who impressed the heck out of experienced web security researchers Charlie Miller and Dino Dai Zovi, joins Apple.

Comex to start an internship at Apple

You’ll be missed. Hopefully someone will buy the app off Google or add similar features to their own.

Google shuts down Slide, cuts off Photovine & Disco

Despite having been launched to positive reviews, Photovine is among Slide’s products to be shut down as the independently operated division will be dissolved. Google purchased Slide last year for $200m but never fully integrated the company into itself. The unit allowed to operate on its own accord, sometimes releasing products that are competing with Google’s own internal products.

Slide is also known to favor iOS over Android with Disco and Photovine being two of its most well known apps making appearance on iPhone first. Since Larry Page replaced Eric Schmidt as CEO, he’s been consolidating and restructuring the company. It looks like Slide does not fit within his vision.

Slide founder Max Levchin will leave Google, as will Slide’s head of product, Jared Fliesler, who will join Square.

Photovine is a beautifully designed, very well done app, something that could have come out of Flickr had the Yahoo! people realized what opportunities it has with the photo sharing site. Photovine lets you post photos according to themes and discover other people’s photos who happen to share the same theme. 

Google shuts down Slide, cuts off Photovine & Disco

laughingsquid:

Steve Jobs: A Mega, Meta Appreciation

Source: Fast Company

Could it be? Ryan Stiles is actually running Apple?

/via @bellamy

david:

Quoting Steve Jobs

In the public’s eye, Cook has become the Riker to Jobs’ Picard—and people generally like Riker.

Jacqui Cheng writing about Tim Cook’s first company letter as CEO of Apple.

Waitaminute… Captain Cook?

Here it is, as promised. Now it’s actually 2008 calendars, up from 2004.

Zombie iCal Calendars

Ever since Apple opened the beta version of Mail and iCal on MobileMe last year, my list of calendars in iCal (Calendars, not calendar entries) has been piling up. 

I’ve got to the point of having more than 2000 calendars in iCal and that was causing the app on the Mac as well as on MobileMe to take such a long time in opening. 

The MobileMe calendar actually would give up after several minutes and I haven’t even bothered to open iCal ever since. If I need to input anything into the calendar I would use the one on my iPhone instead and made sure it doesn’t sync with iTunes whenever I sync the iPhone.

I let my MobileMe account lapse last March and figured that would be the end of it. Having ignored iCal for months, I thought I might try Lion’s calendar for a change, completely forgetting that I have more than 2000 calendars, so it took a while to open and left me wondering until it finally opened and showed me my monster list.

I figured, okay, let’s find the proper calendars, export them to import back later and nuke the bastards so I can start iCal from fresh. Having gone through that, I opened iCal and found myself looking at a calendar app with no entries. Oh joy!. 

A few minutes later, I saw that the proper calendars were already loading. Hmm, that was strange but okay, saves me from having to import them. Note that my Mac was online during all this.

After having added one new calendar and a handful of entries, the app began to slow down and wouldn’t quit unless I force quit it. And then I decided to head down to home/Library/Calendars/ where I found 2004 folders of calendars appearing out of nowhere. ZOMG ZOMBIE CALENDARS!! THEY’RE BACK FROM THE DEAD!

I realized I had lost three subscribed calendars in the process but there I was looking at 2004 calendars. Where had they come from? Can’t be MobileMe, my account is gone. So then I proceed to remove all the calendars directly from the Finder for the second time. It’s been about 30 minutes and the zombie calendars haven’t made their way back yet. We’ll see later on.

Since I no longer have access to MobileMe, I can’t see whether I can do anything on the server side from MobileMe to stop this form happening again.

It also seems that old appointments and invitations from the calendars were being resent. All the way back from 2006. How do I know this? I’ve been getting failed delivery messages of those invitations in my Gmail inbox. Why Gmail? Not sure. I thought it should have been on my mac.com address, which would have bounced.

So far I haven’t seen the zombies returning again yet but if they do, I’ll make sure to grab a screenshot and post it here.