Archive for March 2008

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In Around The Web on 31 March 2008 with no comments

Just remember, you don’t get much time to make a first impression: “So, I downloaded it, installed it, launched it. Crash on launch. Launched again, saw splash screen (a splash screen? really?), crashed during launch again. And so in the trash it went.” Subscribe to my RSS feed!

How Fluid Saves Spaces’ Ass

In Apple, Mac Apps on 30 March 2008 with no comments

Spaces, introduced in Leopard, is nifty. It’s fast, it’s elegant, and it’s not that useful.

Many others have written about why Spaces falls short, but the main thing is that it separates your activities by Application instead of by function. (As usual Mr. Gruber has written about this far more eloquently than I could).

Now [...]

Changing Multiple ITunes Video Types to TV Show

In Apple TV, ITunes on 30 March 2008 with 4 comments

ITunes has made it increasingly convenient to organize all of my digital content. Even sweeter, these also end up on my TV via the Apple TV.

But one thing that has been a pain is that ITunes decided that most of my video files were of the type ‘Movie’. In the Apple TV user [...]

Cabel Sasser’s Coda Confidential C4 Video

In C4 on 29 March 2008 with no comments

The other videos (all of them are great) are at the here.

I can’t wait to see what the line-up is for C4[2]. Subscribe to my RSS feed!

Twitter Me

In Objective-C, Twitter on 28 March 2008 with no comments

With another release of the IPhone SDK, I am seeing new Cocoa programmers popping up everywhere!

One of the best ways to get into this world lately is to listen in on the helpful advice of the very best Cocoa code jockeys as they figure things out on Twitter.

Go ahead and follow me on Twitter and [...]

Would You Choose Twitter Over Your Blog

In Around The Web on 27 March 2008 with 1 comment

Loic Lemur asks if you could only Twit or Blog which would you choose?

The results are interesting. Subscribe to my RSS feed!

Robo-One 13 Tokyo

In Japan on 27 March 2008 with no comments

Some videos and pictures are starting to come out from this year’s Robo-One in Tokyo:

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WebKit Scores 100 on the Acid3 Test

In WebKit on 27 March 2008 with no comments

They did it!

The Opera team also achieved 100 earlier today but WebKit is claiming the prize of first publicly available rendering engine to ace this very difficult test:

“The final test, test 79, was a brutal torture test of SVG text rendering.”

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Japanese Robot Baby Sitter

In Japan, New Category on 25 March 2008 with no comments

Speaking of Japan, those clever Japanese engineers have come up with a solution to the problem of not being able to find a sitter - a robot babysitter!

“If parents want to leave their children with the kid-sized machine, they arrange for the youngsters to wear special badges that bear codes which the robot can read. The [...]

The First IPhone Development Book

In iPhone on 25 March 2008 with no comments

The first, but surely not the last, IPhone programming book:

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