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Author: Steve Riggins
Jobs gets new liver, heart next?
The WSJ is reporting that Steve Jobs received a new liver several months ago, likely as a side effect of his pancreatic cancer of several years ago. This just in: rumors say that Jobs might be receiving a new heart as well, and due to having a change in heart, he will allow Apple to… Continue reading Jobs gets new liver, heart next?
iPhone camera popularity
How popular is the iPhone one might ask? Well the iPhone (at least up until the 3Gs) has had a fairly cruddy camera. It does ok, but even now, no flash, low megapixels, which to be fair, compares to other phones, but still, not great. Check out the Flickr charts on camera usage. The first… Continue reading iPhone camera popularity
Power outlets of the future?
This is a very cool idea to replace our normal two outlet fixtures. Now all we need are plugs that have 90 degree rotated prongs.
The iPhone 3Gs is here, and it kicks ass
I picked up my iPhone 3Gs this morning. Because this is the third iPhone model, the lines were much shorter than two years ago. Only 40 or so people ahead of me, and it took an hour in line to pick up the phone and head out the door. So, how does it compare to… Continue reading The iPhone 3Gs is here, and it kicks ass
John and I show up in a WWDC blog post
You can barely see my bald head, John is in the middle and this great guy we met, Carlos, is on the left, while the author is checking out something on his iPhone. How I spent my WWDC
Microsoft Bing maps have a nice bird’s eye view
Even though the name is lousy, the new Microsoft search engine “Bing” has some nice maps. Go to Bing Maps and enter an address, then click the “Bird’s eye” button on the top of the map. You can even rotate the bird’s eye. Bing maps, however, place the marker for our house two doors south,… Continue reading Microsoft Bing maps have a nice bird’s eye view
Don’t Panic! Well do, and save some cash!
Panic is having a sale on Transmit, Coda, Candybar and Unison, all 50% off for 3 days only. If you need an excellent FTP program, check out Transmit. If you need a newsreader, Unison is good. I don’t use Coda nor Candybar, but I hear good things about them.
Do I have dust or a stuck pixel?
This showed up on my 23″ Apple Cinema Display today. At first I thought it was a stuck-off pixel, but I made a image with a black and red pixel in it, and those are much smaller than this, and I can kinda see the red pixel through the spot. So maybe it is some… Continue reading Do I have dust or a stuck pixel?
Put a wiki server on your iPhone!
The Mobile Wiki Server is now available on iTunes. If you’d like to carry a wiki around with you and share the contents over WiFi, this might be the product for you!
Java Security Issue – Disable Java
According to this report by Landon Fuller, the Java that ships with Mac OS X contains a vulnerability that allows any website to excecute code on your Macintosh via Java. This is a fairly serious issue and so I am recommending you disable Java. For Safari users: Open Preferences under the Safari menu Click the… Continue reading Java Security Issue – Disable Java
I’m a Steve
Apple’s response to those awful Microsoft “I’m a PC” ads like “Lauren” is out. Watch it here before the spoilers below: [qt:http://movies.apple.com/media/us/mac/getamac/2009/apple-mvp-elimination-us-20090512_480x272.mov 480 272] The ad starts off by implying some PCs are slow. Some Macs are slower than other Macs, but ok, the MS ads did say that some of them wanted performance for… Continue reading I’m a Steve
Diskwarrior Disk Check 2009-05-13
Diagnosed Machine: MacBook Pro unibody 15″ 10.5.7 Diagnosed Drive: Internal 7200rpm Diagnosing Machine: Mac Pro via target disk mode Firewire 800 Tools: DiskWarrior 4.1.1 directory repair Results: Some files had bad icons Some files had bad creation dates Some volume information was incorrect I replaced the directory to no immediate ill effects Diagnosed Machine: MacPro… Continue reading Diskwarrior Disk Check 2009-05-13
Maintaining your Mac
I’ve opened up a new category here at Geeks R Us for Macintosh maintenance. At PMUG we often give people tips on how to maintain their Mac. I thought it might be good to jot some of those ideas down. I’ve also added a sub-category called “log” which I will use to log any and… Continue reading Maintaining your Mac
10.5.7 digital signature failure
This is a first! Software Update failed to download 10.5.7 due to an invalid digital signature. Oops. Someone at Apple made a boo boo. I guess we wait for a fixed updated!
10.5.7 is released
Apple has released 10.5.7 of Mac OS X Leopard. Details can be found here but include: Additional Information What’s included? General Includes latest security fixes. Includes additional RAW image support for several third-party cameras. Improves performance of video playback and cursor movements for recent Macs with NVIDIA graphics. Resolves an issue with Dvorak keyboard layout… Continue reading 10.5.7 is released
Showing an item in a fanned stack
Some friends and I were discussing about the inability to open the Downloads folder from the Stack on the dock, when the stack is fanned. I don’t like the grid view (I have one, it is called the Finder) so I use fanned, sorted with newest at the bottom. You can open the Downloads folder’s… Continue reading Showing an item in a fanned stack
On Usability
Google Cache of a story linked by Daring Fireball of an initial experience with a Microsoft Surface, After reading that article, and thinking about how easy my iPhone was to use on day one, hell, sitting on the floor in the mall no less, I thought about something I hadn’t thought of in two years:… Continue reading On Usability
Debugging iPhone memory releases
Recently helped John debug why a NSString returned from [UITextView text] was invalid after being returned by a method invoked via NSInvocation on a different thread. (There’s a mouthful) Anyway, I don’t know gdb very well, so some googling around and I found this cocoadev article on debugging autorelease. It helped a lot! I wanted… Continue reading Debugging iPhone memory releases
Regarding Tim Cook and the stance on netbooks
During the Apple financials conference call today, Tim Cook was once again asked about Apple and netbooks and once again he poo pooed the idea. Of course there are stories showing up on the net about Apple telling netbooks to stuff it, etc. Of course Apple is naysaying the netbook. Why would Apple want to… Continue reading Regarding Tim Cook and the stance on netbooks