Archive for February, 2006
Tuesday, February 28th, 2006
Apple killed the PPC G4-based Mac mini today and replaced it with an Intel Core Solo (single core) or Core Duo (dual core) model. This gives a theoretical performance in create of 400%. They upgraded the graphics from the woeful Radeon 9200 (which is included inside breakfast cereal packets these ...
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Tuesday, February 28th, 2006
http://www.pandasoftware.com/products/activescan.htm A colleague of mine was checking out an online bank. They had a few links around security, one of which was "Scan your PC for security problems". Clicking on the "Scan PC" button brings up a wonderful message:
You must be running IE5 or greater to scan your PC ...
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Monday, February 27th, 2006
Guy Kawasaki and Robert Scoble have some fun reading about whether or not your company is about to descend into mediocrity (about to suffer a bozo explosion) or even if you can plainly see that it has already gone.
My last big employer, a telecoms dot-commer, had a lot of bozos. ...
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Saturday, February 25th, 2006
A couple of weeks ago I shared some wine and cheese (well, cheese anyway) with some pub mates. We talked about technology, the number of bones in the human body, the length of human DNA and all sorts of things. I shared my vision of a internet-cafe-sum-business-incubator.
BOOM.
It's everywhere. The ...
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Friday, February 24th, 2006
Daniel Steinberg is the editor of ONJava and java.net. He's been working with Java on the Mac since it first appeared but also enjoys coding in ObjC and other languages. He is a longtime technical writer, trainer, and developer with Dim Sum Thinking, Inc.
He's a humble family man and his ...
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Thursday, February 23rd, 2006
I'm just off the phone with the local radio part of the BBC. I listened for a few minutes as they described the growing porridge industry and the price of heifers in Markethill and then it was my turn. Four questions about these recent virus/trojan/malware outbreaks on the Mac and ...
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Tuesday, February 21st, 2006
MJ and I are busy trying to brain storm on website design. For those of you reading this, you'll no doubt have noticed we have a splash page that is one big graphic, and a blog, neither of which is related to each other in design (apart from they ...
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Tuesday, February 21st, 2006
Blogging is definitely an additional tool in the modern marketing arsenal. It gives the appearance of transparency and the idea that the developers may actually be engaging with the customer.
Do I sound cynical? Well, I should. I've seen a lot of blogs recently which talk about products but very ...
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Monday, February 20th, 2006
Guy Kawasaki started blogging in January and has come up with quite a few interesting posts - a lot of which he's paraphrasing from his books which I must say are a good read if you've ever wondered about starting a business and promoting a product. My personal preference is ...
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Sunday, February 19th, 2006
That is: they have fanatical users who might give the product a bad name.
While the Mac community has been likened to a group of rabid internet thugs, I have always felt this to be an unfair comparison. After all, everyone knows you have to go to Usenet to meet rabid ...
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