I got this email from MobileMe. It was a strange non-apology. It was a litany of all the things that they have been working on without any mention of the things that were promised but not yet delivered. This message appears to have been sent out to all MobileMe members.…
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The phone makers are happily creating app stores to supply their customers with 99¢ utilities. They are setting up huge infrastructures and developer programs to court both users and developers alike. The reason: they know that your investment in these 99¢ gems will insure your loyalty to their platform long after their 2-year contract has expired.…
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I have owned several iPods over the years. My first iPod was a blue iPod Mini. I bought it in the original Audible promotion to replace my Rio. The iPod Mini had a 4GB hard drive and an aluminum anodized case.…
Read the rest “Great Use for that old iPod”
Yesterday I was doing a search on Google for a person. One of the search results was a link for Facebook. When I clicked on the link I was take to a page that looked like Facebook but actually wasn’t. When I click again I was asked to login.…
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My installation of iLife ’09 went without a hitch. I backed up my library a couple of times and began. I have 30,000 pictures in my library. iPhoto quickly identified 69 locations from my iPhone pictures and is currently scanning my library for people’s faces.…
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I recently had the opportunity to write a quick command line application using Java. Instead of using Eclipse or BBEdit as by editor/IDE, I decided to use Xcode. I chose the Java Tool project template and got to work. In the course of my project, I wanted to spit some text out on the console.…
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Web site for Wise County IT Consulting Company
Drupal 6 site hosted on Customer’s server featuring Facebook Connect, Tagadelic Cloud, Views, and other modules.
Web site for local Basketball association featuring pages for each team and team schedules.
Every once in a while I’m surprised by my Mac. Today it was a Malware warning. I was searching Google for a product manual when I clicked on what looked like a valid .org hit. I was redirected to an IP address and then to a .cn…
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I’m currently running
Mac OS 10.5.6. This version is also known as
Build 9G55. Let’s take that build number apart and see what it actually means.
Major Version
Minor Version
Build
Update
9
G
55
b
The build refers to the Apple internal build process that does a full compile and packaging of the entire OS.…
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I recently read that Apple (formerly Apple Computer) has filed for a trademark for OS X along side its current trademark for
Mac OS X™. This is just another step in a methodical move away from the computer industry into the main stream of consumer electronics.…
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Simple website for a local Intermediate School band. Content is managed by the band director.
