Jean Bartik, who was a pioneer in the field of computer programming, died at the end of March at the age of 86. She worked with a group of women who were the programmers of the first real fully electronic computer, the ENIAC, which debuted in 1946. At that time, the machine itself and its male ...
MacTech Conference
We just came back from the MacTech conference in Los Angeles, put together by MacTech magazine. We met a lot of great people, and learned a lot of cool IT stuff. Here is a big-picture overview of what we took away. 1. Unitasking In the keynote presentation, Andy Ihnatko coined the term ...
Anyone want to buy a used XServe? Cheap?
For enterprise Mac users, Apple dropped a mini-bombshell today: in less than three months, they will discontinue their XServe line of rack-mounted "blade" servers, to be replaced by the existing Mac Mini Snow Leopard Server, and a new configuration of the Mac Pro preconfigured with Snow Leopard ...
Live from the MacTech Conference
We are wrapping up our final day at the MacTech Conference 2010 in Los Angeles! This is a gathering of Mac developers and consultants from all over the world -- we've already met people who have come from Vienna, Melbourne, Genoa, and theres a whole bunch of us from the ACN community in New York. ...
Apple Announcements: What’s New, What We Think
Yesterday was a big day for Apple, lots of product and software announcements. Here's the skinny: 1. New MacBook Air computers. One is small (11" diagonal screen, 2.5 lbs) and the other is normal size (13" diagonal screen). Both have solid state drives instead of traditional hard drives so they run ...
Yes, you can now easily accept credit cards on your iPhone!
A company called Square has just announced that you (anybody! businesses! individuals!) can now accept credit cards using the iPhone. And the best part is that so much is free. It will change the way so many small companies and solopreneurs do business. Probably including us. (It also works on the ...