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  iPhone SSH Clients reviewed

  08.19.08 | Comment?

  Ben Gross has a review of the available iPhone SSH clients. For the record, I went with pTerm but it has a god awful icon.

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  Chasing the cloud

  02.20.08 | Comment?

  In the quest for “everything everywhere” I’ve resolved to only carry my Asus EEE PC and run Windows with all the applications that give me connectivity to all my servers. My only real gripe right now is that I miss Yojimbo or OneNote. I don’t want Office crufting up my XP install and Yojimbo is Mac only right now. I have found a great app for notes called NoteLens but I’m not entirely sure I want them to be local to my machine. This leaves me to install a wiki somewhere, but that has its own issues. Ideally I’d like a personally hosted version of Google Notebook. If anyone knows of a good web based “note application” please let me know! Thanks!

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  Leopard 10.5.2 Out in the wild

  02.11.08 | Comment?

  Leopard 10.5.2 release notes. I wonder if this will fix my Bluetooth issue… (On my MDD Dual G4, my ioGear USB Bluetooth adapter “isn’t connected” on boot, I have to unplug it and plug it back in for OS X to see it.)

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  Lighthouse

  07.31.07 | Comment?

  Lighthouse looks like a really handy application to handle UPnP on my Linksys WRT54GL running DD-WRT. If it can shut off ports after x time of inactivity it is worth it to me.

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  M-Control

  07.06.07 | Comment?

  Telekinesis is what M-Control wants to be. I initially started M-Control as a way to remotely administrate my Mac without having SSH or FTP access. It also has built in iTunes controls and a few other scripts that I found useful(?). Now it is mainly used to upload torrents and start an Automator action to open the torrents in Transmission. I’m thinking I will move my scripts over to Telekinesis and start working on this some more. Below is a screen shot of M-Control. I’ll post the scripts for this later. This has me excited about AppleScript again.
  

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  Webjimbo

  06.19.07 | Comment?

  The only reason I would ever want to learn Ruby On Rails has evaporated. Webjimbo will answer all my needs for a web based brain dumping ground.

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  Getting ready for War

  01.23.07 | Comment?

  I think Boot Camp is a bigger deal for Apple than they lead us to believe. By the time Leopard is released (3/24/07 maybe?) Vista will be out in the hands of the general public. Vista has been available to enterprise customers since late November, this has given Apple plenty of time to perfect drivers for Vista. I can see Apple counting on big hit with Boot Camp for Vista before Dell or HP can even get drivers out the door for older “capable” hardware. This is a perfect time to really kick the Get a Mac campaign into high gear. You want to sell me a computer that already runs XP better than than the competitors (mostly), have working Vista drivers AND the most advanced OS in the world? Count me in!

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  This just in: Apple is a Hardware company!

  01.23.07 | Comment?

  I know this may come as a shock to some of you, but believe it! Apple sells hardware! OS X is not the bread and butter of the company, OS X makes their hardware look good. CNN doesn’t seem to get it. Granted, it will be hard for OS X not to run virtually anytime soon (it’s already been done anyway) but I can assure you this will be without Apple’s blessing no matter how “strategic” you may think it is. And I would be willing to bet that VMWare will have OS X running in a VM before Parallels. People also seem to forget that VMWare has been doing this alot longer than Parallels - VMWare’s first beta had USB 2.0, iSight and Bluetooth support while Parallels is falling behind. If it were up to me, save your money kids and wait for VMWare to finish their product. You will not regret it.

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  Naming the iPhone

  01.16.07 | Comment?

  I don’t think Apple had decided on a name for the phone and finally settled on iPhone. John Gruber tells us that iphone.com points to a “junky” internet phone service website, there is no printed name on the back of the phone much like all the iPods say “iPod” on the back, and probably the best reason of all: everyone is already calling it that. No matter what blog/news site you read, iPhone is instantly connected to Apple’s then-non-existent mobile phone. Why fight your target market on what you want to call the phone? They know its the iPhone and regardless of whether you call it Apple Phone/iChat Mobile, it is still going to be called iPhone. I think this will also be the case of the Apple TV iTV.

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  VMWare is here to crush Parallels

  12.22.06 | Comment?

  I think Parallels should be worried now that VMWare has their public beta open. With USB 2.0 support in their first Public beta, iSight and Bluetooth support, who the hell cares about cohesion or whatever it was? It was nice knowing you Parallels. I only wish I could try it out, but I sold my MacBook.

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