Archive for June, 2008

Let the testing begin! Go run AirPort Utility and update your base station (or Time Capsule) to firmware 7.3.2. Now, the question remains (as it has with the past two updates), will this patch fix TIme Machine backups via AirPort Disk? Historical Recap: As you may know, and as I’ve crusaded here… Apple told people [...]

I saw this one coming a million miles away… and today, it happened. You may have noticed that PhoneNews.com stopped using AdSense Referrals quite a long time ago. Well, today, Google announced they were shutting down the program. It will be replaced by the Google Affiliate Network, formerly DoubleClick Performics. This is all part of [...]

One thing that has really caused me to scratch my head since last June, is the difference between how the Ambient Light Sensors (ALS) on iPhone and Mac respond. After doing a lot of testing, I’ve found that the difference can be explained in software. But, that still doesn’t explain exactly why Apple has chose [...]

Price Protectr, a site that I’ve blogged about in the past, has gotten another major upgrade. First, they’ve added watching and targeting. This is a little confusing, because they both serve a function similar to the standard price protection feature. But, they’re more aimed at helping you buy better. Watching is simply that, whenever a [...]

Microsoft has been buying a lot of ad space on PhoneNews.com for Live Search for Mobile. And, I’m more than happy to take their money. But, I do have to ask… why not just roll Live Search into the platform? It doesn’t make a whole lot of sense why the Live Search application was not [...]

Apologies for the lack of posts, but thinks haven’t stopped in the slightest. I’ll leave the updates on PhoneNews.com to the blog over there, but safe to say, we’re working really hard on improving a few things. Nothing on the level of Snow Leopard, but there’s clearly some cobwebs that have cropped up over the [...]

Live Mesh got an update today. While Microsoft hasn’t said it yet, I just put it to the test… and you don’t need User Account Control to use Live Mesh anymore. Now, here’s the catch… the installer may be out of date. So, you may need to enable UAC in Vista, reboot… then install Live [...]

Firefox 3.0 is now out. Go grab it and help Mozilla set a world record for the number of downloads in a single day. Firefox 3.0 is a real improvement for both Mac and PC. Both have a dramatically faster download speed, themes that match the operating systems, and the Mac version swapps out older, [...]

Making the transition to running a dot com startup is something I’m actually quite thrilled about. But, at the same time, it means I have to multitask countless things at once. In case you haven’t heard, MechaWorks is the new parent company that will be my main job. It combines the worlds of publishing, software [...]

I haven’t made it a quiet matter about being half-not-online these past 10 weeks. This actually was an intensified version of what has been happening the past four years. But, that is now over. Because, as of today, I am a graduate of the University of California, Davis. My Managerial Economics degree is on its [...]