With the iPhone OS 3.1 and later, we’ve got better options. So what is the real scoop on syncing all of our digital calendars, from Google to OS/X iCal to your holiday calendar subscription?
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I tap the screen on my phone, and tell it “buy cream cheese at the market.” The next day, when I walk into the market, my phone pings and reminds me to pick up some cream cheese. It knows this because the last time I was near the market, I tagged the location. My phone [...]
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Being the helpless technologist I am, I had to install Snow Leopard (OS/X 10.6) the day it shipped. Actually I’ve been looking forward to this release for some time — a release almost entirely focused on making the operating system more stable, faster and more compact. How novel! Of the handful of new features coming [...]
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This problem continually occurs on my iPhone (along with the dropped call problem). All of the solutions presented here are for fiddlers. A phone is an appliance. Apple sold it to zillions because it is carefree. Download a sexy app and use it. Not go to a GENIUS BAR (puke) or reload, or reset, or fiddle, or or or.
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Alright I’m rarely sucked in by this much geekery, but in this case… I appreciate the work! These guys took 24 256GB SSD drives and assembled them into a massive, memory-based RAID array. Flash forward maybe 10 years and we’ll all have this in our laptops!
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We use HP’s QuickTest Pro (formerly Mercury QTP) for much of our automated regression testing. Unfortunately, QTP is a pricey piece of software, with a cost in the vicinity of $7,500 per user license. While it is a state-of-the-art automation system, at this price tag it comes with quite a barrier to entry — at [...]
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I’m impressed. The day of the purely solid state consumer laptop is rapidly approaching: Toshiba on Thursday announced another big step in the industry-wide adoption of solid state drives—the first 2.5-inch 512GB SSD. The drive will make its public debut at CES in January. The company will also be debuting a number of different capacity [...]
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Gah. How am I ever supposed to keep up with flickr, facebook, myspace, linkedin and whatever else comes along? I just don’t have time for this — even if I just try to keep one or two going. You know, there would be a fantastic market for some little application that synchronizes all of them… [...]
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For those of you thinking of upgrading to Parallels 4.0, you might want to wait a bit yet. At least, if you are, like me, hoping that Parallels 4.0 solves its long-standing printing problems. Unfortunately, it appears to be worse than in 3.0, although the problem may not be entirely the fault of Parallels. The [...]
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Luke Halliwell recently wrote an exceptional piece titled The Agile Disease. And, as someone that pushes this disease in various forms, you might be surprised to hear that I agree with just about everything he’s written on the topic, save a few points. For example, the commercial trendiness of Agile and its “manifesto” is just [...]
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I recently stumbled on a comparison of Version and Cornerstone, two leading Subversion clients for Mac OS/X. These are both excellent clients for SCM control, although if you use an IDE such as Eclipse or IntelliJ you probably won’t need a stand-alone SCM client. In my case, I’m more interested in accessing the code than [...]
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Upgrading WordPress is getting easier and easier, especially with handy little plugins like the WordPress Automatic Upgrade. Three blogs upgraded in just a couple of hours (and that includes all the tweaking and plugin upgrades that go along with it). So, at any rate, the old Boss Logic look has been around for three years [...]
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This is me. Martial artist, zen student, programmer, writer and author, technologist, father of two, photographer and a resident of Los Angeles (well, the outskirts of it).
I also publish Rational Scrum and am President & CEO of Hyrax International LLC, delivering comprehensive process improvements to its clientele. Specialities include audit and assessment of program areas such as project management, quality assurance, risk management and customer satisfaction as well as delivering focused initiatives to improve customer efficiency.
