Jul 06 2010
Link: First Look at the Improved and Redesigned Firefox 4
The Windows version looks good. Will be interesting to see how the Mac version looks when they get the tabs on top.
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Jul 06 2010
Link: Is Apple Cheating In iPad Commercials?
Apple seem to be getting hammered with lots of negative PR lately. The tide appears to be changing…
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Jul 06 2010
Link: Andy Grove: How America Can Create Jobs – BusinessWeek
Interesting article and some valid points that apply to NZ too.
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Jul 06 2010
Link: Change Network Utility’s whois server list
If you use the Network Utility to do ‘whois’ lookups, but prefer to use a whois server that’s not listed in Apple’s choices, there’s no apparent way to add your servers to the displayed list within the pop-up list — so you end up typing in your preferred whois server each time you run the program. But with just a bit of preference editing, it’s actually quite easy to add your preferred choices. Here’s how to do it.
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Jul 01 2010
With Seagate announced their new ‘Hybrid’ 500gb 2.5inch Drives they claimed it could offer SSD speeds but with only a small premium on top of a normal magnetic hard drive. The drives use inline 4GB flash memory and use what Seagate calls Adaptive Memory. The firmware automatically relocates frequently accessed data and stores it on the flash memory while keeping most stuff on the the drive.
Their marketing pitches substantial improvements to most general usage situations. This video showing off the technology certainly looked impressive.
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Jun 30 2010
Link: Apple hiring iPhone antenna engineers
Coincidence?
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Jun 30 2010
Link: YouTube API Blog: Flash and the HTML5 tag
These guys obviously haven’t heard that Flash is dead…
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Jun 30 2010
Link: More on the iPhone 4 signal issue
Taking my Objective Scientist Dude hat off now, I’d say that iPhone 4 is a fantastic device but a lousy phone. Placing calls from my office, my home, and my neighbourhood whilst walking my dogs, I’ve had 14 dropped calls in a little over two hours of talk time.
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Jun 29 2010
Link: How to Create Your Own Real-World MBA
Interesting reading, as always, from Tim Ferris.
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Jun 29 2010
Link: Introducing IIS Express
We have been working on a new flavor of IIS 7.x that is optimized for developer scenarios that we are calling “IIS Express”. We think it combines the ease of use of the ASP.NET Web Server with the full power of IIS.
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