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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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; […]
When I updated to Mac OS X 10.6.6, I was pleasantly surprised to find that the Boot Camp Setup Assistant offered an option to download drivers remotely from Apple. As I have said many times in the past, having to tote around a Mac OS X Install Disc to get the baseline Boot Camp driver […]
This one bugs me, a lot. Within weeks of the California Supreme Court ruling that stores could not ask for your zip code during a purchase, Best Buy now wants to track returns with a state-issued form of identification. It’s clear why they want to do this; they want to ban customers who return too […]
As you may have noticed, I’ve been doing most of my blogging on Twitter these days. Like many, I like how Twitter allows for acceptably-compressed postings. Posting 140 characters as a blog post is too small for most people to find adequate. This is largely because of how long it takes to pull up a […]
Now for me, something like this is pretty simple to work around. But, for someone not like me… this could be a bad start to a new relationship with Microsoft Office. No, the screen grab below has not been edited in any way, nor was it coaxed into fruition. It is what appeared after clicking […]