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Image by Getty Images via Daylife One of the industry buzzwords that needs to go to the grave is the user “experience.” Don’t quote me here, but I recall this buzzword being developed by Microsoft as part of the marketing campaign behind Windows XP. XP was supposed to be “experience” or “expert” or “Xtra stuPid [...]
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Image via CrunchBase A coworker sent this along. I’ve had this issue on a few contacts and didn’t really have time to delve into it. Name removed to protect the innocent and good intentions. Be very careful with this and make sure you have a backup of all data that you plan to manipulate. — [...]
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If you’re having stupid amounts of trouble with your plugins loading in Safari 4 on Snow Leopard, go to your Finder and open /Applications. Right-click on the Safari app and choose “Get Info.” On that screen, you’ll see a checkbox to run the app in 32-bit mode. Check that. Restart Safari if it’s open. Now [...]
Image via CrunchBase At WWDC 2009, I stood up in a session on Snow Leopard server and lightly rattled Apple‘s cage about its poor scaling guidance for the product. They were spending a great deal of time talking about the benefits of Wiki Server 2, but there was little to take away from the session [...]
Image via CrunchBase When NetNewsWire went with Google Reader syncing, the hair stood up on the back of my neck. I swore off Google Reader quite some time ago. Indeed, I was using NNW to avoid Google Reader. Now I’m being forced back? It was time to look into splitting up with NNW. I haven’t [...]
I’m back from WWDC 2009. What a wonderful time! Sorry I didn’t update much about it, I was just too busy with my head buried in all the Apple goodness. Oh my, do they have some good stuff in the pipe for you. One of the greatest things about WWDC is the fabulous music they [...]
Hi, just dropping in from raiding the lands of healthy heroes and creamy young virgins to let you in on a quick Apple Mail tip. Do you use Apple Mail in an environment with Outlook? In particular, do those Outlook users prefer HTML mail? Do you receive mail from them with a microscopic font size? [...]
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Image by tom ferris via Flickr Apple finally announced the WWDC 2009 dates and they couldn’t have targeted a better week. It looks like I will become a representative for my agency on the Calconnect standards organization. They happen to be having a meeting at Oracle in Redwood Shores, CA the week prior to WWDC. [...]
Today I had the honor of putting together the first “real” video podcast for The DVD Marquee, a DVD/movie podcast site run by Jeffrey Rosado. Those of you who know me very well know that I’ve been dreaming of putting together a new media company. Jeff, a longtime friend of mine, shares this dream. He [...]
Just in case you’re ever wondering what can make a Mac user so annoyingly smug… as a relatively new Mac user (2+ years), I received the following message on Skype. It’s an amazing feeling, that smugness. Even as a Windoze user I’d laugh this off, but still. Bookmark to: Hide Sites
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