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Posted in Apple, Blogging, Technology on Jul 24th, 2007
I forced myself to go back to Safari when the beta for version 3 came out. I now run the nightly builds of Webkit as well. Overall version 3 is much nicer than version 2, but there is still one thing about Safari that is just driving me crazy - Wordpress. I host this blog [...]
Posted in Apple, Entertainment, Personal on Jul 23rd, 2007
My car has an Aux port in the glove compartment that lets you plug an iPod in and listen to it through the stereo. It’s easy to find a cable to go from the headphone jack of the iPod to the Aux port, but what has always driven me crazy about this solution is that [...]
Posted in Apple, Technology on Jul 9th, 2007
Feel it in your hand. Run your finger across it. Flick left. Now right. Try up and down as well. Bring your fingers together, now apart and watch the size change. Feels amazing, doesn’t it? Is it heavier than you expected? A little more substantial?
That’s the way I felt when I touched an iPhone for [...]
Posted in Apple on Jun 11th, 2007
I still find web sites that are not 100% compatible with Safari - this blog’s editor being one of them. I find that Firefox gives me the most chance for success while browsing the Internet, with Camino coming in a close second. Don’t get me wrong, Safari is a nice browser and I test the [...]
Posted in Technology on Jun 1st, 2007
It was 3 months ago that I switched from Comcast high speed Internet to Verizon Fios. Comcast wasn’t terrible, but I wanted more upstream bandwidth than the tiny 384k they provided standard. I switched to the Verizon Fios 15/2 package, which gives me 15Mb downstream and 2Mb upstream. I knew going in that 2Mb upstream [...]
Posted in Blogging, Technology on May 2nd, 2007
One of my most active RSS feeds is the social news site Digg.com. Due to a problem people had with Digg pulling down content that contained an encryption key to unlock HD-DVD content, everyone reacted like hurt children instead of rational adults and decided to post the key in a thousand different ways and [...]
Posted in Technology on May 1st, 2007
You see the signs - free WiFi! Free Internet at the hotel you just checked in to. Usually free is not a bad thing. Today, when I really need connectivity, free is an exercise in frustration.
Pittsburgh International Airport - free wireless. Max speed I could achieve was approximately 32k. 32k! [...]
Is anyone really surprised that Apple has pushed back the release date of OS X Leopard to October? Rumor sites have been saying for a while that the releases they have received were still pretty buggy and that they expected Apple to miss the “end of Spring” release date that Steve Jobs announced. [...]
Posted in Apple, Entertainment on Apr 2nd, 2007
Back on February 7th, I asked “Would you pay more for DRM-free music?” Looks like I finally got one right as EMI announced they would be selling DRM-free music on iTunes for a premium price. Full albums will remain the same price, so they are clearly trying to get us to purchase more [...]
Ran across this while trying to find anyone that may have the same problem. I like to have the Desktop Alert display the Subject and From when I get a new email. I lost that functionality when I got my new MacBook Pro. Thankfully Microsoft has written a support tip on [...]