Fear and Loathing on the Learning Curve: Observations on Life, Tech and Web Design from a Slightly Misanthropic Mind

Enabling Emoji On A Non-Jailbroken iPhone

Someone kindly showed me this little tip this morn­ing and I thought I’d share, since the web is still rife with now-inaccurate inform­a­tion about Emoji sup­port on the iPhone with/without jailbreaking.

In sum­mary, if you’re a 12-year old Japanese school­girl or just a geek with too much love for little emoticons, you’ll be delighted to know that you can now unlock the full palette of Emoji icons on your iPhone without jail­break­ing, doing any weird stuff with vCards, or any other unpleas­ant activ­ity.
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Reuniting SXC.hu Photos With Their Authors

I’ve been using a lot of stock pho­tos in recent pro­jects, and a good deal of them come from the fant­astic SXC.hu. One issue I ran into, how­ever, was that after down­load­ing sev­eral dozen, mak­ing selec­tions, then even­tu­ally using them, I’d usu­ally lost track of where they came from on the site.

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