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  • Trying out the iPad browsing experience

    Trying out the iPad browsing experience

    Posted on January 28, 2010 | 31 Comments
    I did a little experiment this morning, disabling plug-ins in my browser aka “the iPad experience”. See where things start to break down? The Apple iPad web browsing experience, not quite what you expect. Yes, there are native apps for a number of these sites...

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  • Apple’s idea of the best web browsing experience

    Apple’s idea of the best web browsing experience

    Posted on January 28, 2010 | 46 Comments
    Just hours after the product got announced, a lot has already been said and written about the Apple iPad and I don’t particularly feel I have a lot to add except for that “one more thing”. I’ve been working almost exclusively on Mac for about...

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  • Steve Jobs back in 1984

    Steve Jobs back in 1984

    Posted on January 25, 2009 | 1 Comment
    We’ve sure come a long way since Steve Jobs did this demo of the Macintosh computer on January 24th 1984. I was two years old at the time and the closest thing I can remember is programming some BASIC on my dad’s Apple IIGS when...

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  • Acer notebook running Mac OS X 10.5

    Acer notebook running Mac OS X 10.5

    Posted on May 1, 2008 | 8 Comments
    So, what can you do with an old PC notebook and some time on your hands? Why not try getting Mac OS X Leopard to run on it. Turned out not to be too difficult at all, if you look around you’ll find detailed walkthroughs...

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  • iPod Touch – Apache and PHP 5.2.3

    iPod Touch – Apache and PHP 5.2.3

    Posted on October 12, 2007 | 56 Comments
    When you’ve got Installer.app installed on your iPod Touch you’ll notice that it allows you to install Apache and a number of scripting languages (PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby). That’s all well and good but getting it to run in on that local Apache install is...

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  • iPod Touch 1.1.1 opened up

    iPod Touch 1.1.1 opened up

    Posted on October 12, 2007 | 7 Comments
    I’m a very happy camper — spent about an hour this afternoon hacking my new iPod Touch and thanks to the guys at touchdev.net I now have third party applications enabled with the 1.1.1 firmware! All in all it wasn’t that difficult to do if...

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  • Apple support burns…

    Apple support burns…

    Posted on November 27, 2006 | 6 Comments
    [update] Got the problem resolved today, managed to do a direct trade-in of the broken magsafe at a local Apple retail store and bought another spare adaptor. All’s well that ends well… I’ve been a very satisfied switcher with my new MacBook Pro and Parallels...

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  • Flex Builder 2 on Mac

    Flex Builder 2 on Mac

    Posted on September 13, 2006 | No Comments
    It seems Flex Builder 2 for Mac is moving along nicely, Duane Nickull posted a little sneak peek showing us what it looks like now. http://technoracle.blogspot.com/… Great job team! Psst, guess what I’m on Mac now so how about hooking me up with that beta?...

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  • Hello World, I’m Mac

    Hello World, I’m Mac

    Posted on September 12, 2006 | 16 Comments
    It took me a little while to bite the bullet but Apple coming out with a MacBook Pro on an Intel Core Duo processor finally convinced me to switch. Lovin’ it so far, the only painful bit will be buying a Windows XP Pro license...

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