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Looks like Microsoft is going to save the world, yet again. Yes, I’m cynical about anything Microsoft does that supposedly benefits anyone else. They didn’t get where they are through altruism. But a closer look shows that that cynicism might not be justified here. It is a real improvement to their product, and a valid …
This is a good story. It doesn’t have a happy ending — but only because it isn’t an ending, it’s a continuing story whose end has yet to be written. Before I started Oak Circle, I had an earlier company (the one that created Project Badger). That was my first successful business, but it was …
Sneaky. I like it.
A little while ago, I wrote about how I’d started using a version-control system (Subversion) for my source code files. It worked well, but now that I’ve got a really good network-attached storage device (“the NAS” from here on), I wanted to put my repositories on there instead of keeping them on my local drive. …
I was quite surprised, a few days ago, when my official Apple “iPhone Apps” RSS feed came up with something called “InstallerApp 1.0,” because the description says that it’s a way to put iPhone apps that currently require jailbreaking on your unjailbroken iPhone: InstallerApp is a native Mac OS X application that allows you easily …
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It’s a curious move, coming from one of the largest software companies in the world, but a welcome one. Yes, it’s a transparent attempt to fight open-source software by getting companies hooked on their product before they’ve grown into the next Google. But it can also help such companies when they need it the most. …
Well, that’s one good way to get around the chicken-and-egg problem with electric vehicles.
GoddessJ and I watch The Daily Show and The Colbert Report every night that they’re on. (They’re really the only shows that we watch, we mostly use the TV for watching DVDs and playing the occasional PS2 game.) The only real complaint that we have about it is the sheer mind-numbing repetition of the ads. …
It’ll be interesting to see how Apple responds to this. My bet: they’ll come out with lawyers a-blazin’. 😉 Though whether they have a legal leg to stand on or not is another story.
The subtitle says it all: “Free music apps worth every penny.” But this is an encouraging step forward nonetheless, in that it shows that the record labels are starting to get the idea.