Saturday, January 31, 2009
Palm Pre - The best smartphone yet. Period. – AtomicSub Technology
I'm don't think Apple is that worried about Palm Pre. After 2 years a company has finally released a product that catches up to the iPhone. I'm sure in those 2 years Apple's a;ready put in more work on their next products.Also Tim Cook's quote in this article was slightly taken out of context.
Palm has also managed to stir up feelings in the Apple camp with Apple CEO Tim Cook telling journalists “We will not stand for people ripping off our IP,” referring to Palm ripping their beloved iPhone’s UI and much more.
If you listened to the earnings call or read the transcript, it paints a different picture.
Tim Cook
And so, as I've said before, we're very, very confident with where we are competitively. We are watching the landscape. We like competition. As long as they don't rip off our IP and if they do we're going to go after anybody that does.
Mike Abramsky - RBC Capital Markets
Because, it seems until Palm came out, many of the other players had in fact negotiated carefully around your multi-touch IP; whereas, the Palm device particularly seems to almost directly emulate the kind of touch interfaces that you had innovated and that Steve, when he launched the phone, talked about patented. Is that to what you're referring with regarding to ripping off IP?
Tim Cook
I don't want to talk about any specific company. I'm just making a general statement that we think competition is good. It makes us all better. And we are ready to suit up and go against anyone. However, we will not stand for having our IP ripped off, and we'll use whatever weapons that we have at our disposal. I don't know that I can be clearer than that.
Apple Inc. F1Q09 Transcript from SeekingAlpha.com
Palm Pre - The best smartphone yet. Period. – AtomicSub Technology
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Friday, January 30, 2009
Don’t tell Google that Google Earth can be used to help terrorists
I think Nicolas is right that the so called "Google threat" is a bunch of BS. Shall we ban maps, they can help terrorists plan and coordinate attacks.Don’t tell Google that Google Earth can be used to help terrorists
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Tuesday, January 27, 2009
iPhoto's Faces Recognizes Cats | Mac|Life
Haha, exactly what I was wondering. Can't wait to try it on photos of my dogs :)iPhoto's Faces Recognizes Cats | Mac|Life
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Monday, January 26, 2009
Another Mac Trojan found in torrented Adobe CS4 crack | 9 to 5 Mac
Is this the beginning of the end for the Mac's security track record?Moral of the story though... don't trust pirated software.
Another Mac Trojan found in torrented Adobe CS4 crack | 9 to 5 Mac
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Saturday, January 24, 2009
Smash Lab sucks (An open letter to the Discovery Channel)
Funny, but that sucks.Smash Lab sucks (An open letter to the Discovery Channel)
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Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Analysts: New MacBooks Priced Too High to Compete | Gadget Lab from Wired.com
As Daring Fireball pointed out,Apple’s laptop sales for the quarter were up 34 percent year-over-year.
Analysts: New MacBooks Priced Too High to Compete | Gadget Lab from Wired.com
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Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Apple Stock Halted
CNBC just reported that Apple stock trading has been halted in extended hours trading!? This usually happens only in very significant news events.!! Steve Jobs taking medical leave of absence until June. !!
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App Store Policy Change?
Apple dismounts from high horse, approves 3rd Party Browsers
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Tech: Mac OS X Password Recovery
If you've forgotten all your Mac OS X passwords just pop in the install disk. After the Install cd boots goto Utilities > Reset Password. Simple.Same thing goes for resetting the password for 10.4.
Mac OS X 10.5 Help: If you forget your administrator password
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Tech: More Password Recovery Tips
This is a pretty easy to follow password recovery procedure for WindowsXP. Essentially you run the Windows XP boot cd in Repair mode and hit SHIFT + F10 during the Installing Devices progress bar. Now you have access to the system.NUSRMGR.CPL gives you the User Accounts Control Panel.
net user user_name new_password let's you change a password from the command prompt.
See the linked article for detailed instructions and alternative methods.
I Forgot My Administrator Password!
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Monday, January 12, 2009
Google Answers Environmentalist BS
Official Google Blog: Powering a Google search
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Friday, January 09, 2009
Dell Adamo Ultra-Thin Laptop
What a weak product announcement. They tried really hard to 'engineer' buzz around the product, and just seemed to annoy people...I think Palm and Apple's strategy of keeping things secret until the announcement works a lot better than this.
Some pictures and video of the first Adamo product. Dell's Adamo is actually a new high end designer product line, rather than just a single product.
On a side note, the name keeps making me think of Battlestar Galactica... maybe they should do some joint marketing.
Dell's ultra-thin Adamo laptop set free - Engadget
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Thursday, January 08, 2009
Palm Pre Charging Dock
Finaly Palm is paying attention to some design and innovation. Induction charging has been around for a while, but it hasn't been used much in actual products. The angle and magnetic alignment with the Palm Pre phone should work great.It reminds me of when Apple attached their remotes and iSight cameras to the iMacs via magnets. Simple but magic like. Wish my iPhone had a dock like this :)
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Tech: Dropbox Sync External Folder
Dropbox is probably my favorite Backup, File Sharing, Data Organization software/service. It automatically backs up and syncs your files to the net and between systems ( Mac, Linux, and Windows ). The default behavior is to only backup/sync files within the My Dropbox directory. However, you can symbolically link a directory outside of that folder and Dropbox will follow the links to back things up.Now I think about it, this is an obvious 'feature'. Symbolic links can be easily created with the "ln -s" command on OS X and Linux, but how do you do it in Windows?
Windows
Use either the JUNCTION utility from Sysinternals, or the MKLINK command built in to Windows Vista and Server 2008, for example:
junction "C:\Documents and Settings\User\My Documents\My Dropbox\DesiredFolder" "C:\Path\To\DesiredFolder"
mklink /D "C:\Users\Steve\Documents\Dropbox\DesiredFolder" "C:\Path\To\DesiredFolder"
Or, if you prefer a GUI, install Link Shell Extension.
Use SyncToy to echo changes from another folder to your Dropbox folder. This keeps 2 copies on disk though.
Be careful on Windows though:
Windows may not update changes to symlinked files automatically.
Changes made to a junction point-linked file/folder on Windows may not update the Dropbox mirrored copies until you close and restart Dropbox. See http://forums.getdropbox.com/topic.php?id=583 for more details. Recommend keeping the real files in the Dropbox folder and symlinking into Dropbox rather than the other way around.
Follow the link for more specific instructions.
TipsAndTricks/SyncOtherFolders - Dropbox Wiki
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Wednesday, January 07, 2009
Tech: Washed Out Screen Color
I haven't run into this 'Washed Out Screen' bug since 2007 ( most likely Mac OS X Tiger ), but it looks like it's still an issue. However, this time instead of being triggered by User Switching, it happened after waking from sleep.The workaround to restore full color to the display:
cd /System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Versions/
cd ./Current/Frameworks/CoreGraphics.framework/Versions/Current/Resources
./DMProxy
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Saturday, January 03, 2009
iPhone 3G (PRODUCT) RED Special Edition
How about this for a MacWorld 09 rumor:
The article is pretty confusing, I can't tell if the author means this is a fake or for real. First he says it's for sale for NT$3600 using Taiwan's 'economic stimulus shopping coupon'. Then he goes on to say "it's a bad economy, can't afford official one, just be frugal with the NT$3600, anyways it's 99.9% like real, and it's red."
The iPhone Air looks obviously like a Chinese knockoff. Though it does have an aluminum chassis and all, the guts looks like some generic phone.
from tw.Apple.pro
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Making Resource-Fork-Aware Backups with rsync on Mac OS X
The Mac Resource Fork Problem:from http://www.quesera.com/reynhout/misc/rsync+hfsmode/:
Mac OS X uses the HFS+ filesystem, by default. HFS+ files are often composed of a data fork, a resource fork, and Finder metadata. The data and resource forks contain what you normally think of when you think of file information: data, program code, etc. Finder metadata includes information like file type and creator, comments, modification dates, locked and invisible status, and Finder colors.
Traditional UNIX filesystems only store a single stream of file data (the HFS+ equivalent of the data fork). Mac OS X (or Darwin, more precisely) is a genuine BSD UNIX, but with a nontraditional filesystem. Because of this, standard UNIX tools can only see certain portions of OS X files.
The difficulties caused by HFS/HFS+ aren't new. Early Mac users of BBSes and the Internet had the same problems when uploading files from a Mac for storage by other operating systems. Since the foreign OS had no way to store the additional HFS data, the uploads would be incomplete/useless. To solve this problem, Apple and others invented conversion formats that collected the full set of file information into a single data stream. Examples (some with varying and/or additional design goals) include AppleSingle, AppleDouble, MacBinary, BinHex, and Stuffit.
The relatively new development is OS X. Now that Mac users can run decades of software written for traditional UNIX machines, some of that software needs to be updated to work properly with HFS+ files.
One such standard UNIX tool is rsync, an excellent file synchronization utility which is also great for use as filesystem backup software. Rsync builds and runs without errors on OS X, but because it is unaware of resource forks and other metadata, it creates incomplete (and therefore corrupt) backups.
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This patch will make rsync HFS+ metadata-aware. Resource forks and Finder metadata are assembled on the sender into an ephemeral file in standard AppleDouble format, before being sent to the destination.
This method preserves disk space on both sides, with zero redundant data and only a small amount of overhead per file (~100 bytes of AppleDouble headers for each file that has a resource fork and/or HFS+ metadata). It works with any destination filesystem and operating system (tested with Solaris and Linux), and even with older or unpatched versions of rsync.
The Solution in Detail : Making Resource-Fork-Aware Backups with rsync on Mac OS X
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