Bento Users: Issues Upgrading to Bento 3? Try Firefox.
Tonight I attempted to purchase the upgrade from Bento 2 to Bento 3. It didn’t go perfectly. FileMaker is offering Bento 1 and Bento 2 users a discounted upgrade to Bento 3 for $29. I personally think Bento 2 users should have gotten more of a discount, considering the lightweight transitions. But, this is FileMaker, [...]
TomTom for iPhone Sells 80,000 Copies
Well, they did ask Engadget to take that number down. It might be a marketing ploy to spread the news better, but still… 80,000 copies x $100 = $800,000 so far. Not bad considering that Woot sells 4.3-inch GPS units for just $15 more, including shipping. And yes, today’s Woot offering is exactly that… made [...]
Snow Leopard Shakes Up Passwords on Display Sleep
Snow Leopard is out (well, it’s in customer’s hands anyways), and that means I’m finally free from the burden of NDAs. I have some gripes about Snow Leopard, I’ll get to my largest in a second. First, overall, it’s a progressive upgrade for Mac OS X. Exchange is nice, and the iPhone OS UI crossovers [...]
The Perfect Office Example for Justifying an SSD
I know. You may be a guy or gal working in an office. Or, you may be a penny-pinching startup CEO like me. But even I justified paying $275 for an Intel X25-M SSD. And, I’ve got the perfect example of why it makes business sense. Sure, 17 second startups are great. But, I am [...]
Mozy & MobileMe Sync Don’t Get Along…
I have two Mac systems that both MobileMe sync, and use Mozy. One is on a free account, the other is on unlimited service. And, today, I had to turn off MobileMe Preference Sync. I’ve stumbled on something that isn’t is a bug, but is a limitation of how the two products work together. Actually, [...]
Intel X25-M Solid State Disk (SSD): Whoa
Today, I got my MacBook Pro back from AppleCare (Main Logic Board failure, which I pinpointed to the faulty/recalled GeForce 8600M). And, I had a present for my anti-glare workhorse (oh snap, Chris just picked sides in the Apple screen wars). And, that present was an Intel X25-M. I had had it with my Samsung [...]
How Apple Could Solve iPhone App Overload, In One Day
I’m going to offer up my solution to the SpringBoard overload problem. If you’re not familiar, with 60,000+ apps on the the App Store, many iPhone customers have downloaded over 100 apps. And, that means that SpringBoard (the Home Screen) has become full. Additional apps over the ~120 limit, fall off the screen. Now, in [...]
Yeah, We’re Building an Apple Site
As the title says, MechaWorks is building an Apple site. Because of my proximity to Apple however, I will have no editorial relations with the site. The news will not be driven, or touched by me… beyond any general advice and council (which, I would give to anyone, anyways). More details on it will be [...]
iWork Pages, EPS Files, Printing, and You
What was supposed to be a simple, five minute procedure… turned into an hour-long debacle. I wanted to print out a door sign for the MechaWorks meeting room at E3. Simple, right? I opened up iWork Pages, dropped the MechaWorks logo (in TIFF format) in, and the MechaWorks icon (in EPS format), sized them to [...]
MobileEdition Ships!
Early this morning, we shipped the first MobileEdition-powered app to Apple. The Phone News app (from PhoneNews.com, of course) is in their hands right now. Stay tuned for when we get release dates for that, and other MobileEdition-powered sites. Now that one is done, getting the rest up is the process that we’re starting right [...]
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