Archive for the ‘Software’ Category

What comes after Leopard? Musings on OS X 10.6

March 7th, 2008

[A repost of a rather nice post that went under the radar. I will post a new one with more current ideas and observations soon]
Leopard is finally out and on its’ way to our desktops. Is our inner geek happy? Well, yes. But it he is also restless. You see, Leopard is old news. We’ve […]

An iTunes iPhone App Store for the rest of us…

March 7th, 2008

The iTunes iPhone “App Store” (besides being a mouthful) is the official way for third party iPhone apps to be distributed and installed on the iPhone.
Briefly, application developers get to upload their app to Apple, and have it distributed and sold thru a special section on the iTunes Store. Apple take cares of transactions, bandwidth, […]

Mod me down

February 6th, 2008

Mike writes:
XHTML 2.0 is based solely on XML, forgoing the SGML heritage and syntax peculiarities present in current web markup. XHTML 2.0 is supposed to be a “general-purpose language,” with a minimal default feature set that is easy to extend using CSS and other technologies (XForms, XML Events, etc). It’s a modular approach that […]

iPhone 3G solution

December 3rd, 2007

Here’s an idea that just occurred to me regarding taking advantage of 3G networks from iPhone.
How about someone makes a small gadget that has EVDO access and shares its internet connection via Wi-Fi?
Then the iPhone (and every appliance using Wi-Fi, come to think of it) will be able to take advantage of all those 3G networks. Since there […]

How can you tell if a project has bad documentation?

December 2nd, 2007

It’s documentation is based on a wiki.