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Posts Tagged ‘Apple’

Apple locks out application developers they don’t like

The recent fiasco about Apple limiting an application on iTunes’ AppStore is well-documented. A great comment from the Twittersphere even hints at the kind of dark times this may be the harbinger of.
I’ve babbled about how DRM is bad for consumers and bad for the world before. I think it’s important to keep in mind [...]

Iphone 3g

Deb and I went to the rogers store yesterday ostensibly so I could get a replacement battery for my ailing blackberry 8800. We ended up leaving with a brand new pair of iPhone 3g 16Gb phones. It’s been increasingly clear that the iPhones are closer to what I’ve wanted as a wireless device for awhile [...]

Apple pulls out of Black Hat security conference

Black Hat Director Jeff Moss, “nobody at Apple is ever allowed to speak publicly about anything without marketing approval.” So engineers at Apple don’t get to talk to anybody? Ever? That kinda sucks.
MacNN | Apple backs out of Black Hat security conference

iPhone in June

Electronista is claiming that there’ll be a Canadian iPhone in June with an all-you-can-eat data plan for $7. With RIM about to introduce a BlackBerry 9000 phone, users are going to have a decent set of options to choose from for hardware. Unfortunately, the BlackBerry plans aren’t exactly competitive compared with the iPhone’s supposed $7 [...]

iPod touch wishlist

Now that I’ve had an iPod touch for a little over a week and gotten used to it and what it’s capable of, I have a few ideas about what I wish it could do. These are maybe obvious omissions to its capabilities which would really beef it up as a portable entertainment device.

iTunes connectivity [...]

iPod touch 32GB

While in Toronto this weekend, we stopped into the Apple store to play with the new 32GB iPod touch. My feelings about the first edition was, they’re cool, but 16GB isn’t quite enough. Also, they lacked the web-browser, email and calendaring capabilities of the phone so I was, like, fuck that.
What a difference a few [...]

Tags in Ecto3 with Wordpress 2.3+

Mr. Tijsseling replied with a link to the infinite-sushi support forums explaining how to setup and use the native tagging feature in Wordpress.
Nice.
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Ecto 3 Hello World Post

I’ve been following Adriaan Tijse… Adrian Tissel… Ado’s Twitterstream for awhile eagerly looking forward to the latest version of Ecto, my favorite desktop blogging software. Version two’s been relatively unchanged for a couple of years now with an update last year to provide Intel support and some new toolbar icons at some point before that. [...]

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