Archive for the ‘infurious’ Category

iPhone stuff

Friday, March 7th, 2008

At some point last night, Apple's development servers fell over and died. These servers can hold 40 000+ concurrent download streams but there were so many people downloading the new iPhone SDK that the whole server became unresponsive. After several hours of trying, I finally got a connection at 11 ...

iPhone SDK. 6th March 2008

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

According to Macrumors, the iPhone SDK will be announced on March 6th. "Please join us to learn about the iPhone software roadmap, including the iPhone SDK and some exciting new enterprise features," Apple said in an invitation sent to reporters. Are we to assume Apple has licensed ActiveSync? Are we going to see ...

Rickshaw. Golly, Oh Gosh, Oh Wow.

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

Okay, tonight I sent out a document to a few friends. 1.6 MB sent out to my email server. Whoosh. Some of my friends have very limited mailboxes from their ISP. Some only 30 MB, some as high as 50 MB. Very few are unlimited. I used to be worried ...

Silicon Valley -> Ireland

Monday, February 11th, 2008

Pop on over to eirepreneur: Gareth Coen and colleague Diane Roberts were inspired by the Enterprise Ireland bash during Paddy's Valley to offer a similar event here in Ireland. Gareth, based in Silicon Valley, and Diane, based in Dublin, recently started a consultancy firm with the goal of helping bridge the ...

Golden Braeburn: get unscrewed.

Monday, February 11th, 2008

Wil Shipley is planning to start something new. Golden Braeburn is an attempt by Wil to change the way that Mac ISVs (Independent Software Vendors) work. In essence, you get screwed by shopping cart hosting companies, you get screwed by merchant account holders, you get screwed by card processing companies, you ...

NiMUG Meeting: Monday 18th Feb, 7 pm

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008

NiMUG are having another meeting!. They're also looking for some Professional Mac users who might want to show off a demo of what they do with their Macs. Or why they use the tools they do. Anyone fancy a few minutes of free advertising?

Remove your assumptions

Friday, February 1st, 2008

Jens Alfke's latest blog post rambles about a couple of things but finishes on something that I really empathised with:Apple engineer: …and the layout needs to take into account ligatures and contextual forms, where adjacent letters change glyphs depending on neighboring characters, or even merge into a single glyph. Sun engineer: ...

Map of Free WiFi in Ireland (and the Black North)

Thursday, January 24th, 2008

James, the EirePreneur, is maintaining a map of Free (or cheap) WiFi hotspots in Ireland. Log into GMail and then you can add extras. I've added a few in the North, mostly centred around McDonalds (which explains why I look like I've been Supersized). Add some more in? What about your ...

Translink for iPhone

Monday, January 21st, 2008

David Rice on NiMUG wrote up this little app: Translink for iPhone

MWSF2008: The Good, the Bad and the Fugly

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

Every year we wait for the new and sparkly stuff from Apple and we often get it. The move to Intel. The iPhone. the 17" and 12" Powerbooks wayback when. This year is no different. We have a new subnotebook, software updates and a glimpse into Apple's plans for ...