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Until Apple change’s their attitude and policies, they will never be a Microsoft, Sun, or other monolithic technology company. Why? Their NDA on the new iPhone SDK 2.1 hinders developers seriously. They are so tight lipped about everything and are such control freaks that they will never replace Microsoft. If someone asked me today if …

The other day I posted on my thoughts of Rhapsody and Yahoo Music. It seems like there has been a lot of talk about how Yahoo Music users are going to lose their music they purchased through Yahoo. I want clarify a few things: First, Yahoo Music users can transfer their account to Rhapsody. I …

I’ve been a subscriber to Yahoo Music, first with their Radio, and then their Unlimited service since 2005. I’ve loved the ability to listen to a huge collection of music at my fingertips. Since 90% of my music listening takes place on my computer while working, I never really had to worry about taking my …

Edit: This article was intended to specifically address certain types of of open source advocates, as stated in the title. This article is not intended to label all open source advocates as hypocrites. See comments by the author below. Today, and almost every day, I’ll read an article about a proprietary computer company (Microsoft, Apple, …

This week’s blogging challenge was our computer software now and then. Lorelle talked about the different versions of WordPress over time. I thought it was an interesting article. 10 Years Ago I started web development back in 1997. My tools back then were: Notepad – That right, the one and only. It was how most …

… Is it me or is this idea just bad: http://lifehacker.com/398228/friend-book-to-beam-your-iphones-contact-data-with-a-shake Here is an except about what Friend Book does: The coolest feature without a doubt is the new “Handshake”: put two iPhones running Friend Book together, shake them up and down, and the personal contact information of the phones’ owners will be beamed through …

Found this blog post with a handful of Plesk tricks while searching for a different problem. Posting it here to remember it.

AVG, a popular anti-virus that I use, has a good free version. I guess it has become popular enough that I found a avgsafe.dll on a computer using HijackThis. The reason it suck out is that they didn’t have AVG installed. Was easy to remove and the computer was good to go.

Preface If you haven’t agreed to the iPhone SDK License Agreement and NDA, please ignore this post, or Apple might hunt you down with their lawyers… and what a horrible death that would be. Problem I keep getting a build error when trying to subclass the UITableViewCell Solution Add the CoreGraphics.framework to your project Resource …

Alright, the sound of dying Apple fanboys are crying through out the internet at the posting of this entry, but there are two things I can’t stand about the Mac: Command & Control are switched – this is a major pain, especially when using a KVM to switch between a Windows, Mac, and Linux machine. …