aaron

Analyzing the iPhone Location Log File

Today at Where 2.0, two data scientists announced a discovery that iPhones are recording GPS positions into a hidden file on the device. I’ll save a summary for an update of this post, but go read the original article for now. I downloaded the logs from Amber Case‘s iPhone, and have been looking through them to see what’s there. Turns out it’s a lot more than just the cell tower...

aaron

Tracking typos of your domain name in Google Analytics

Say you want to register a couple different typos of your domain name, and redirect everyone seamlessly to the correct site. This can be done quite easily in Apache using ServerAlias and a simple RewriteRule. I just registered geoloqui.com after noticing a couple articles linking to it instead of geoloqi.com. But then I thought, wouldn’t it be useful if I could track these typos and see which ones...