The iPhone revolution… has not begun?

This article in Slate is spot-on regarding the iPhone. It’s a beautiful little device, but I won’t be buying one anytime soon.
Mr. Wu points out that as a portable device, the iPhone is far from revolutionary. Sure, it’s probably the hottest phone available, but in the context of what it really is — a miniature [...]

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Upgrade

Yet another upgrade completed this morning. I’ve now moved all of our web sites to a shiny, not that new PowerMac server. Setting up PHP 5.2.2 and Zend 3.2.8 to get everything back online and healthy took about an hour (which makes me worry how much it’s going to break when and if I upgrade [...]

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Quicksilver: A practical user’s guide

Quicksilver is a powerful tool and, perhaps surprisingly, not just for power-users. While everyone seems to agree on that point, it’s also true that almost everyone has the same initial impression: “This looks really cool, but I just don’t understand how it will make my life better.” To say Quicksilver is a bit obfuscated is [...]

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Ooohhh… yummy.

Well, it’s here.
The new MacBook Pro features a faster 800Mgz front side bus, up to 4GB of RAM, 2.4Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo processors and 802.11n wireless (which is a lot faster than 802.11g, not to mention the built in 1000Base-T gigabit ethernet port). And to top it off, the new display technology goes up [...]

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