Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category
Tuesday, December 30th, 2008
In keeping with Alex Payne's "Software I Paid For" post, I'm doing my own. While his focuses on software he no longer uses, I'm going to try and remember the apps I bought over the year, and if I regret the purchase.
Desktop:
Office 2008. Scrivener is still my heavy-lifting writing program, ...
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Thursday, November 20th, 2008
Today at the day job, I was working on getting Word 2007 to connect to SharePoint on my Mac via Parallels, and it got me to wondering what the load time differences were between Word 2008 12.1.4, Word 2007 via Crossover, and Word 2007 via Parallels.
I ran three tests (four ...
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Thursday, November 13th, 2008
Test post from Office 2007
Nothing to see here. Just seeing how this works.
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Friday, November 7th, 2008
According to this Apple Insider post, podcast downloads are coming to the iPhone.
I'm thrilled for this. Very rarely do I sync my iPhone to my iTunes library -- usually when I've just bought new music. I only subscribe to a handful of podcasts, but because of how infrequently I sync, ...
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Tuesday, September 9th, 2008
Obviously, we are going to see new iPods, but I'm going out on a limb and think the Classic form might be retired in favor of the Touch model. The Touch will go to 64g. New Nanos with a larger screen too.
I also think we'll see a new iLife with ...
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Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
Last night when I went to bed I was at 50% battery -- this was with two GMail accounts fetching every 15 minutes. I've turned NuevaSync back on as a fetch service to test battery life today.
I think something is wonky with push. My yahoo account was set to fetch, ...
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Tuesday, August 19th, 2008
I've been having some procedural issues with managing my calendars. The big problem is, I'm not a big fan of iCal, and entering calendar info on the iPhone is a bit of a pain in the ass because I can't set the event name and its time all in the ...
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Monday, July 28th, 2008
Testing 123. Not sure how viable this will be for real posting, but I wanted to check it out.
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Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
iPhone
The 3g iPhone will be announced, going on sale at the end of the monthThe App Store will be demoed, going live the same time as the 3g iPhoneThe 3g iPhone will also have a camera that can take movies, and will upload directly to YouTube. This functionality may be ...
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Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
Ok, back in February I bitched out 10.5.3 for not fixing issues I had, and introducing new ones. Here's the report card for 10.5.3
Old issues:
Mail Bugs fixed: Zero. Mailbox behavior is the same.
System Preferences Bugs fixed: 0/1
New Bugs introduced: Macbook drops Wireless connection frequently when on battery. Now, I didn't ...
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