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- Rumor Mill: All things WWDC
- Rumor Mill: All things WWDCI haven't heard......anything else. You fleshed out a lot of details on all the rumors us iPhone rumor followers know back and front. As always, my favorite Apple Core post of the week. Keep up the good work (and maybe this should be a daily thing...
- Tags: Operating systems, Snow Leopard, Core Animation, Rumor Mill, Cougar, WWDC
- Discussion threads 2008-06-06
- Leopard looks like ... Vista
- Leopard looks like ... VistaMessage has been deleted.Only One Year?I'm not impressed with Vista and I don't like Microsoft as a company. Haven't for years.Still, you say that "The next version of OS-X has been simmering for over a year"? And how long has Vista been simmering? That...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Yes Vista, Core Animation, QuickLook, Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Inc., operating system, Apple Mac OS X, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-06-11
- Rich Internet Applications with Apple's Core Animation
- There is an article in Wired today talking about some of the new features in OS X Leopard, Apple's upcoming operating system and how these features are going to revolutionize user interfaces. The main technology behind all of this is Core Animation which is something I've been excited about for...
- Tags: Rich Internet Applications, Core Animation, Apple
- Blog posts 2007-06-08
- Where are you Apple?
- Steve Borsch asks the question, is Apple in the same game as Adobe and Microsoft? As Adobe and Microsoft both move into higher end Rich Internet Applications Adobes Apollo and Microsofts Windows Presentation Foundation as well as move into each others territory by expanding the reach of the rich internet,...
- Tags: Rich Internet Applications, Core Animation, Apple
- Blog posts 2007-04-25
- WPF and Apple's Core Animation - A resurgence of the desktop experience
- Julian pointed me to a very interesting article by Kevin Hoffman over at the .NET Developers Journal about Mac OS X Leopard. Kevin looks like hes a pretty hard core .NET guy who has been able to get a look at Leopard. From his article: What really blew my...
- Tags: Rich Internet Applications, Microsoft, Flash, Windows Presentation Foundation, Apple, Core Animation
- Blog posts 2007-01-27
- Possibilities for developing Rich Internet Applications for the iPhone
- After yesterdays love fest with the Apple iPhone I wanted to wait until some people had actually gotten their hands on the device and we knew a bit more about it before chiming in. Unfortunately it seems like the irrational exuberance of yesterday has carried over in full force. For...
- Tags: Rich Internet Applications, Apple, iPhone, Core Animation, Widget, Apple iPhone
- Blog posts 2007-01-10
- Is Apple going to embrace Rich Internet Applications?
- Update: As my commentors have pointed out, I had a couple of errors. JulesLt has a really good overview of the OS X GUI and fills in a lot of my gaps here. Also, iTunes doesnt use Webkit. Thanks to cgervais for pointing that out confirmation is here. Finally, jrobcet...
- Tags: Apple QuickTime, Core Animation, Experience, Rich Internet Applications
- Blog posts 2006-11-30
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- Mystery solved: Apple's new product is iTablet (updated)
- Previously I speculated about the mysterious "product transition" that Apple's Peter Oppenheimer CFO mentioned no less than seven times in the Q3 2008 Earnings conference call with analysts. Some of his quotes from the call: We are working to develop new products that contains technologies...
- Tags: Apple Inc., Tablets, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Rumor Mill: iPhone to get copy, paste and better navi in firmware 2.1
- The most exciting thing around the watercooler today is the rumor that Apple has seeded iPhone firmware 2.1 to developers. MacNN sources tell them that they've found references to cut, copy and paste in the Localizable.strings entry under English.lproj. Woot!According to the story the 2.1 firmware also contains...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Radio, Apple Inc., Firmware, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- A Friday Active Directory puzzler
- We just purchased a new server for our district's central office. Nothing super-special, just a Windows Server 2003 for compatibility with a payroll and HRM application install with lots of storage and a moderately speedy quad-core Xeon. The existing server is out of space, out of resources, recently...
- Tags: Domain, User Profile, Servers, Hardware, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Dell opts for performance with R5400 data center-hosted desktop
- Dell unveiled its data center-hosted desktop product line on Tuesday. Unlike rivals Hewlett-Packard and IBM, Dell didn't build its solution on blade servers but instead opted for a high performance system using a 2U box called the Dell Precision R5400 Rack Workstation. "By not putting the solution...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Performance, R5400, Workstations, Desktops, Servers, Hardware, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- Kaminsky suggests long-term fix will still have to be determined, but patch now, or pay soon
- Kaminsky suggests long-term fix will still have to be determined, but patch now, or pay soonTTLSomething I wish I'd asked during the webcast and which I can't quite get my head around:It was said that setting a long TTL doesn't help because of the way delegation works - has to...
- Tags: Domain names, DNS server, TTL, server, Kaminsky
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- Kaminsky suggests long-term fix will still have to be determined, but patch now, or pay soon
- I listened to the Black Hat webcast today to grab as much info as I could on this subject. The biggest thing that I heard from the whole talk is that the patch fixes things to a reasonable point, but that long-term, there will have to be more work...
- Tags: CERT, DNS Server, Server, Kaminsky, Dan, Patches, Domain Names, Security, Internet, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- We wanna be more like Apple - Microsoft and Ubuntu get ready to fire up the photocopiers!
- We wanna be more like Apple - Microsoft and Ubuntu get ready to fire up the photocopiers!Linux has no marketing.Market share is directly related to marketing. When is the last time anyone saw a Linux commercial?Isn't that the point?You say that Canonical needs to listen more to the "customers" but...
- Tags: Copiers, Operating systems, Desktops, Notebooks, Market-Share, Apple Inc., Ubuntu, wanna-be, Microsoft Corp., photocopier, Linux
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- Is open source hurt by piracy?
- Is open source hurt by piracy?Only hurts Open Source if proprietary is seen as "better"Sounds like what you are saying is for example, that the competition in the office suite space is Open Office Vs MS Office Vs pirated MS Office. Those willing to pirate see both Open Office...
- Tags: Operating systems, open source, piracy, OpenOffice, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., Linux, software
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- Intel launches new chip for consumer electronics
- In its latest bid to expand beyond PCs and servers into industrial and consumer electronics applications, Intel has announced a new family of embedded processors. These chips are not based on the Atom processor already used in netbooks and Mobile Internet Devices MIDs--those versions won't arrive until...
- Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics, Intel Corp., Chip, Atom, SoCs, Semiconductors, Network Technology, Processors, Hardware, Networking, Components, John Morris
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- Apple's coming notebook transition
- Apple is readying a major product transition. We know because they told us so. In the quarterly financial crime call chief financial Officer Peter Oppenheimer referred several times to a "...future product transition which I can't discuss today". That was interesting for two reasons. First, the...
- Tags: Notebook, Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Blu-ray, Product Transition, Portable Growth, Desktops, Hardware, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- Ballmer does Windows; Johnson joins Juniper
- Ballmer does Windows; Johnson joins JuniperAlso.....Is he really the "face" you want for Vista? Let's be honest here Balmer is not loaded with charisma or well anything that makes one want to buy from him. Stay away from him maybe but buy? heh heh heh Just saying.....Pagan...
- Tags: Sales strategy, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Windows, Vista! Hurrah, product people, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista, Juniper Networks Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- DTrace and the Linux bunker mentality
- DTrace and the Linux bunker mentalityBecause it is the Linux way Paul1) Take something good and copy it badly.2) Never, ever listen to anyone offering advice regarding usability [i]"Linux ain't no Fisher Price OS"[/i] etc.3) Spend more time arguing on the mailing lists, than actually developing and bug-testing.RE: DTrace and...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, UNIX, DTrace, SCO Group Inc., Linux
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- Toshiba Satellite L305-S5875
- Editors' note: This review is part of our Back-to-School 2008 roundup, covering specific configurations of popular laptops that can be found in retail stores.The Toshiba Satellite L305-S5875 is a thoroughly average, entry-level laptop. It wasn't too long ago that an average, entry-level laptop meant one that was underpowered and shabbily...
- Tags: Notebooks, Toshiba Corp., Toshiba Satellite, Toshiba Satellite L305-S5875, laptop computer
- Product reviews 2008-07-23
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