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Filed under: iPad
David Frampton has an interesting idea for how to display non-universal iPhone apps on the iPad: put a black border around them, much like how iPhone apps will display if they are not scaled-up.
I think it’s a brilliant idea. It make…
Filed under: iPad IM+ Lite is now available for iPhone and iPad as a free, ad-supported universal application.
Our full review of IM+ for iPad is in the works and should be appearing shortly, so I’ll just hit some highlights here: With the exception o…
Filed under: iPad
The Apple Store for Canada is currently showing the above rates for iPad data plans, but before you get too excited, note a few things. First, Rogers’ official iPad page does not yet show any rate plan information. Second, BoyGenius…
Filed under: Rig of the Week
BusinessWeek is worried that Your Office Chair Is Killing You. “Short of sitting on a spike, you can’t do much worse than a standard office chair,” says Galen Cranz, a professor at the University of California at Berkeley. …
Filed under: UNIX / BSD, Snow LeopardThe other night I needed to change Wi-Fi networks on a computer that I was connected to via ssh. Just about every page that I found via Google led me to try the exact same thing (type “airport -A”) with one minor pr…
Filed under: Odds and endsSachin Agarwal, cofounder and CEO of Posterous, and former Apple employee who worked on Final Cut Pro, thinks that the Finder is dead. I wouldn’t break out the sackcloth and ashes (or the champagne, depending on your feelings …
Filed under: SoftwareThere are signs of life at Apple’s Download page. If you look at the list on the right Hot Plan 1.5.1, Screenflick 1.6.13, and Volumetrix 2.0.1 were all added on May 4th. Before that, Pasteboard Recorder was updated on March 26th.
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Filed under: UNIX / BSDRudix offers a collection of Unix utilities which do not come with OS X by default.
When setting up a new Mac I always install these Unix utilities: wget, ncftp, lynx with SSL support, and the GNU Core Utilities. I compile them…
Filed under: UNIX / BSDI fully expected that my article on mailsend would lead to several “Why don’t you use use XYZ instead?” replies, and it did. Suggestions included Ruby, Python, iPhone push notifications, and configuring postfix/sendmail.
But one …
Filed under: App StoreWhen I saw Mac developer Fraser Speirs’ Twitter post linking to a blog entry titled “Back In” I knew what it was about: the App Store.
Back in September 2008, Fraser announced he was ceasing new iPhone OS development in a widely…