Today, a friend was reassembling his MacBook Pro after performing a hard drive upgrade, and he inadvertently put a very short screw down a very long shaft. How to get it out? After much shaking and poking, I remembered I had the base from an iSight camera, which is magnetic. We put that over the ...
Hear me opine: Is Apple’s iOS a cool platform to develop for?
Watch me participate in a panel discussion at KansasFest 2010, with Martin Haye and Mike Maginnis, moderated by Ken Gagne. The topic is "Apple's Growing Divide Between Users and Programmers," and we discuss whether Apple has strayed from its roots of making computers that encourage and empower users ...
App Development for Everybody
In the June 2010 issue of Juiced.GS, I argue that Apple's mobile products could not be any more different in spirit than their original consumer computer, the Apple II, with regard to application development. The manual of every Apple II product, including the last Apple IIe sold in 1993, encouraged ...
Everything you wanted to know about Mac video ports but were afraid to ask
If there's one thing you can count on with Apple, it's that the next Mac you buy probably has a different display connector than the one you have now. Apple has utilized an utterly ridiculous number of different kinds of ports for attaching displays. Let's take a look. These are the normal ...
Jailbreak available for iOS 4, enables multitasking
For those of you with an iPhone 3G, early iPhone 3GS, or early iPod Touch 2nd generation, you can now update to iOS 4 and still jailbreak your mobile. Why jailbreak? For one, it will enable wallpaper and multitasking on these devices, which normally is disabled. It also gives you the possibility of ...
excellent iPhone 4 review
Is here. It's long, but you could skip to the Conclusions section at the bottom. Summary: it's an excellent phone with a beautiful screen, with a few flaws. Also, the reception problems when gripped a certain way are real, though solveable by not holding it in such a way that you're touching the ...