Archive for the ‘Mac’ Category
Tuesday, December 18th, 2007
Intuit recently issued an update for QuickBooks which, due to some fuckedupness deletes the entire desktop folder. That's pretty serious shit right there.
RixStep, the whiner of the week, was caught by this bug but blames Apple. I'm not sure how "unsafe" code written by Intuit really qualifies as being ...
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Tuesday, December 18th, 2007
Rxstep takes issue with lackingareas of Mac OS X. The lack of an Advanced button and the lack of supported GUI theming.
OS X has no advanced button. There's no way for professionals - for developers and admins - to get beyond the confines of the tilded user home area and ...
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Tuesday, December 11th, 2007
The BBC is outdoing itself this week with coverage of technology topics:
Supercomputers may one day be the size of a laptop thanks to research by IBM.
Does anyone remember the marketing of the PowerMac G4 because it was possible to do 1 gigaflop which was a previous measure of supercomputers (as ...
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Friday, December 7th, 2007
Reuters has this little snippet about SAP planning to release an iPhone client despite analysts falling over themselves to tell us the iPhone isn't business-friendly:
On Monday, SAP broke with precedent by saying it would introduce a version of its upcoming customer relationship management software for the iPhone before launching versions ...
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Monday, December 3rd, 2007
We've got two strong legs on our chair today,' he told USA Today. 'We have the Mac business, which is a $10 billion business, and music--our iPod and iTunes business--which is $10 billion. We hope the iPhone is the third leg on our chair, and maybe one day, Apple TV ...
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Thursday, November 29th, 2007
As reported in Computerworld:
In a brief submitted to federal court, state antitrust regulators dismissed companies such as Google and Mozilla Corp. and technologies such as AJAX and software as a service as piddling players that pose no threat to Microsoft's monopoly in the operating system and browser markets.
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"In spite ...
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Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
The article The REAL Reason the Linux Community Didn’t Come Up With the iPhone starts off with an interesting premise.
Lately, there seems to an explosion of interest in Open Source.
Sure. As much as there has been an explosion in interest in the last decade.
The article is really a rebuttal ...
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Friday, November 23rd, 2007
Let me start by saying that I'm not a gadgeteer. I don't rush out for the latest and greatest. That said, apart from Mac computers I have had my fair share of palmtops and phones over the last decade.
Nine gadgets in 10 years isn't bad. I've only ever bought one ...
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Wednesday, November 21st, 2007
There's not a lot of sense coming out of Steven Berling's Disruptive Technology blog. Yes, it's ZDNet. Bear with me.
The main points seem to be with the facts that Mac OS X has been "hacked" so it runs on vanilla PCs. And the iPhone has also been hacked months before ...
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Tuesday, November 20th, 2007
We've covered this before in september and October of this year. But it's never been more plain than in this posting from Justin Masons blog at taint.org.
The BBC has been sold
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