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Pownce, Twitter, Tumblr, Jaiku, Oh My!
There’s a growing number of these micro-blogging services. And while I’m signed up for all of them except Jaiku, I still don’t know which one to use primarily. I’m now also faced with the question of which one should I use for one of our websites to post more incremental updates that people can subscribe [...]
SocialThing Invites
I was lucky enough to get a SocialThing.com invite from Dan Taylor, so I have some invites of my own now. Let me know if you’d like one!
MultiTouch Trackpad Gestures For The Rest Of Your Apps
If you’re one of the lucky ones to be able to get one of the latest MacBooks with Multi-Touch, you’ve probably asked the same question I have: “How can I get Firefox to use the swipe gesture to go forwards and backwards like Safari does?”
Answer: MultiClutch
This neat little Preference Pane addition will allow you to [...]
MacBook Pro and Gaming
I used Boot Camp to make a little partition to dual boot into Windows XP SP3 on my MacBook Pro… and seeing how I have an nVidia 8600M video card with 256MB of dedicated memory in this little notebook, I thought I’d try out Day of Defeat: Source (I’m a semi-regular on a server there).
It [...]
Cycle Your Batteries!
When buying portable products, I usually like to be (over) prepared for whatever situation may arrive. When I bought my Panasonic HD camcorder, I also searched the web thoroughly and bought two extra batteries and a 16GB SD Card. Plenty of power and plenty of space.
So I found myself looking at an extra battery for [...]
iPhone Developer Program - not so great?
According to Zac Bowling the iPhone developer program, who many are being turned away from, isn’t all we would have hoped it to be. Or to use his own words; “total, laugh-out-loud, crap”.
Take a look at Zacs’ post for a list of some of the major limitations. To put some shortly:
No way to write [...]
Change of Heart - IE8 Standards Mode Will Support Standards
In a change of mind from what they previously had decided, the Internet Explorer team at Microsoft has announced that IE8 will “by default, interpret web content in the most standards compliant way it can.” If you haven’t seen, a quick view of the comments about their previous decision and their latest announcement should give [...]
Getting Organized with Spaces
Upon getting my Mac, Spaces was one of the first things I checked out. I had tried Virtual Desktops in Windows and Linux, but never found them to be too terribly helpful. Not to mention I used a dual monitor setup with my Windows machine, so I felt I had plenty of room for things.
Despite [...]
Google Spam Surge
I thought it was just me, but others are reporting an increase in the amount of spam received in their Google Inbox, as well as increasing false-negatives and false-positives. One person reported in the comments only noticing this in the last weekend, which the graph here from MessageLabs seems to indicate is a/the case.
I wrote [...]
My Mac crashed on me, and I lived to tell about it.
I’ve been a Mac user now for 24 days; and I’m loving it. I’ve been anxious to write several blog posts about the highlights of my experience in switching to a Mac + PC workstation. I have several stickies on my desktop with notes about what to include in these blog posts; and to be [...]
Recent Pownces