About the Author
Cyrus Farivar
سیروس فریور
English: [suh-ROOS FAR-ih-var]
Persian: [see-ROOS-eh fàr-ee-VÀR]
Freelance Technology Journalist
Freelance Radio Reporter/Producer
Author, "The Internet of Elsewhere"
cfarivar [at] cfarivar [dot] org
Current location: Oakland, CATwitter
Geekery Archive
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Map spies!
Posted on December 3, 2007 | No CommentsPaul Boutin astutely observed that the NYT buried the lede when it said that there are no less than 16 American spy agencies. My favorite? The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency — in other words, map spies! Speaking of maps and puzzles, check this: WASHINGTON (Reuters) –... -
Cyrus and MC Hammer!
Posted on November 15, 2007 | 2 CommentsThe interview went awesomely! MC Hammer was a gentleman and was happy to let me monopolize his time for the better part of an hour. After the interview, we totally geeked out, comparing our iPhones — he was giddy over the Labrnyinth game for the... -
How to unlock your iPhone
Posted on September 13, 2007 | 2 CommentsBooya! I finally got my iPhone yesterday and spent last night and this morning figuring out how to GSM unlock it — letting me use my T-Mobile SIM card with ease. How’d I do it? I’ll have a forthcoming article for Macworld explaining soon, but... -
On payphones
Posted on August 17, 2007 | No CommentsSF Bay Guardian: But after the 1989 Loma Prieta quake and after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in New York City, residents found there was still a way to reach their loved ones and let the world know they were OK; they used an... -
I played Wii Boxing the other night for the first time
Posted on December 31, 2006 | No CommentsAnd thoroughly destroyed the first four opponents, which was an awesome feeling. The entire concept of the Wii is a lot funner than I had thought it would be. -
Would you rent a MacBook for under three bucks a day — for three years?
Posted on December 14, 2006 | 7 CommentsSo here’s the deal: Apple France and French ISP Orange are hooking up to provide French consumers with a rented MacBook and 1 Mbps DSL for €60 ($79.50) a month. That works out to about €2 a day. (You can upgrade to 8 Mbps DSL... -
Scott Adams hacks his own brain, restores speech
Posted on October 25, 2006 | 1 CommentApparently for the last 18 months Scott Adams has been suffering from Spasmodic Dysphonia, a disease that affects the larynx, making ordinary speech extremely difficult. Somehow, he figured out how to hack his own brain to figure out how to speak again: My theory was... -
Parallels Workstation in the Playoffs
Posted on October 4, 2006 | No CommentsBest thing about Parallels Workstation? My Gameday Audio (which I paid good money for) finally works on my Mac — well, Engadget’s Mac, to be precise. For the life of me I can’t get it to play natively on my MacBook. -
Tim O’Reilly wrote a biography of Frank Herbert?
Posted on September 22, 2006 | No CommentsIn what may be the geekiest literary matchup I’ve ever seen, I just found out that Tim O’Reilly wrote a biography of Frank Herbert in 1981. The bad news is it’s out of print, but the good news is that Tim’s put it up on... -
How to set-up a Treo 650 DUN with T-Mobile and Mac OS X
Posted on September 11, 2006 | No CommentsI ran into this problem tonight, but Dan Moren of MacUser had the answer: Dan Gillmor’s Blog. Thanks Dans!
