Can’t Apple and Adobe Just Get Along?
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that it looks like all of those rumors of of Flash for the iPhone are wrong.
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100 Vim commands every programmer should know
Since the 70’s, Vi is one of the programmer’s best friend. Nevermind you’re new to Vi or not, here’s a big list of 100 useful commands, organized by... more »
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Top Ten Firefox Keyboard Shortcuts
With the release of Firefox 3, I thought I would share my top ten Firefox shortcuts.
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Calling Cocoa Commandline
The euphoria. All of Shoes’ Carbon code is gone, rewritten using entirely Cocoa native code. Not only did this shrink the native code to nearly half... more »
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LinkedIn is 99% Java but 100% Mac
It seems that the announcement is a result of a blog post from the “Break it Down” blog commenting on the presentations the LinkedIn CDN team did at... more »
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JRuby-on-Rails and MySQL on GlassFish on OpenSolaris in Virtual Box VM
My primary development machine is Mac OS Leopard on Intel Core 2 Duo (read osxtips). But the beauty of virtualization is that I can run multiple... more »
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Google Android vs. Apple iPhone: It's 1984 Again!
The new platform war for the mobile market is very similar to the platform war of 1984 for the desktop OS. There is one key difference...Steve Jobs is... more »
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Essential Apps for a new Mac
A shiny new MacBook Pro landed on the doorstep of Breo Media Labs HQ on Friday, so I decided to reach out to the geek community at large for their... more »
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Apple security team finds code execution holes in Ruby
A member of Apple’s security team has discovered multiple serious security vulnerabilities in Ruby, the popular open-source scripting language.
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SproutCore - Apple’s JS library
SproutCore is Apple's open source JS library. Pundits claim that it will kill Flash and it can be used to write desktop apps for web browsers. Using a... more »
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24 Free Mac Design Programs
The scene for free design applications in mac is as interesting as the PC’s - maybe not as big, but as varied and of good quality.
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Mac OS X root escalation through security flaw
Security breach that allows a regular user to escalate to root privileges using AppleScript. Works through SSH too.
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Blame Sun for that?
We all know the big mistakes Sun did in inventing RIAs with Applets more than ten years ago, and now finding itself in the position of chasing... more »
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Apple finally goes RIA
I shouldn’t say finally. The writing has been on the wall forever but most people couldn’t figure out what the writing said. It turns out it has a... more »
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Adobe Flash running on iPhone emulator; too slow for real devices?
Flash performance and usage is abysmal on current mobile devices that support playback. Mobile device processors — including the iPhone’s — simply... more »
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Java GUI on IPhone (example)
Sample GUI Java application runing on IPhone
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Why Aren't Android Developers Flocking To The iPhone ?
So you'd think you'd see a rush of developers dropping their Android projects to get on the the Apple bandwagon. But based on conversations we've been... more »
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SproutCore - Apple’s Cocoa-Inspired, Cross Platform JavaScript Framework (MIT license)
SproutCore makes it easy to build real applications for the web using menus, toolbars, drag and drop support, and foreign language localization, but... more »
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Did Steve Jobs demo a Flash-enabled iPhone 3G?
Yesterday we pointed out an image on Apple’s Web site that is indicative of an iPhone 3G displaying Adobe Flash content, but may have simply been a... more »
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Mac screencast recording choices
I’ve been mulling over doing a screencast so I made a small survey looking for the best choices for Mac screencast apps. This is not a review since I... more »
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Fascinating iPhone rumors
In an attempt to have some fun this morning I posted some iPhone “rumors” on Twitter.
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Girl Developer's Review of the iPhone, the One We've All Been Waiting For
A day late?
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The Real Cost of the iPhone 3G
Of course, $199 isn't the real price, from either side. But nobody cares. In the UK, the cheapest you'll manage is £99 ($194) for the 8GB handset,... more »
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How Google Manages its Apple Desktops
In this short podcast, Google's Nigel Kersten tells us how Google manages the configuration of its "many, many thousands" of Apple desktops, all with... more »
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iPhone 3G. The G stands for groan. :(
I really, really wanted to love the new iPhone. See, the original was really wonderful, but still not quite good enough for me... I have an... more »
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