iCloud’s Beta: More of the same?
I will start this article by saying that we don’t know everything that will be in iCloud just yet. However, I will say that I am disappointed at the pricing that has emerged on other web sites (here’s just one for example). At double the pricing for Amazon’s Cloud Drive, I can’t say I’ll be [...]
Mac OS X Lion Using OpenCL Graphics to Optimize Archives
Awhile back I blogged about Mac OS X offering newer Mac owners the opportunity to finally download a full set of their Boot Camp drivers, right off the web. Unfortunately, as I noted, older Mac owners were just given a generic error. Lion appears to have fixed that. But, it also brought something really cool [...]
Use iCloud + iTunes In The Cloud to fix iTunes Plus’s Old Mistakes
Like many, I am still stuck with a sea of .m4p files. These are the old FairPlay-encrypted AAC files that were supposed to be superseded by iTunes Plus. iTunes Plus did away with DRM music, and for a small fee, you were able to “upgrade” all your old music; getting higher quality versions sans-DRM. At [...]
Clearing the Air on Adobe AIR for Linux
Today you may have heard some bad news about AIR on Linux. I want to set the record straight. Right now, the vast majority of Linux utilization of Flash comes through the Flash plug-in itself. Not AIR. Putting it bluntly, most Linux users don’t appreciate, let alone need AIR. It costs Adobe a ton of [...]
Java Users May Have to Wait for Mac OS X Lion
Apple and Oracle long ago announced that Oracle would be taking over work on Java for Mac OS X, following Snow Leopard. The OpenJDK Project for Mac OS X was formed, with the intention of offering Oracle’s JRE and JDK for both Mac OS X 10.6 and 10.7. Unfortunately, Lion appears to be progressing much [...]
MacBook Bottom Case Replacement Program
I bought my MacBook in December 2010, the bottom case on it has failed twice. Sure enough, Apple has opened up a replacement program for the bottom case. Apple doesn’t go into great detail as to what may fail, but basically a couple of things can happen. One, the thin metal can warp if you [...]
Introducing WhereBlocks
This weekend I participated in the Factual hackathon, where Yosun and I made WhereBlocks. This was a quick, pre-alpha demo to show how to use Factual’s POI database in a way that encourages humans to add and expand it… and have fun in the process. In a nutshell, you check into a location, and you [...]
Google Shuffles Have Consequences
I’ve been going to CTIA Wireless Expo for many years now. This will be the first year since I started attending that PhoneNews.com does will have any presence at the show. And, as you may have noted, PhoneNews.com will be suspending the display of advertisements from Google AdSense. We took a careful look at CTIA [...]
Internet Explorer 9′s Handling of Image Tags
For some reason, my web site was the first that I ran into which had a problem with Internet Explorer 9. Luckily, I found the problem quickly. The navigation buttons on the right were rendering flatly. With an inspector, I had noticed that the width img tag was defined, but for some reason the height [...]
Seagate Drops Long DST from SeaTools for Windows
Here’s an oddball for Sunday. Seagate quietly posted SeaTools for Windows version 1.2.0.5. It’s such a small update, that the download page still claims that the current version is 1.2.0.4. However, this tiny update packs a big sour grape for those who care about their technology. See, this update only appears to have one function; [...]
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