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Mac memory management tips for the rest of us.

devin — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 07:35:33 +0000

“Following these rules, writing Cocoa code is damn close to scripting.”

Agreed.

Steve Jobs releases official statement about Flash and Apple

devin — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 16:07:29 +0000

Go Steve.

Apple iPad 3G + Wifi | Two days left on the countdown

devin — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 16:57:07 +0000

Only two more days people! The 3G iPad is supposed to be shipped on Friday, so many (including myself) have been waiting for a shipment confirmation. Good news, though, from The Loop:

“Unlike the iPad Wi-Fi that shipped directly from China to customers, the 3G model will ship from within the U.S.”

I’ll be waiting at my doorstep.

Apple Open | Flash Closed

devin — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 14:40:25 +0000

“Someone has it backwards — it is HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, and H.264 (all supported by the iPhone and iPad) that are open and standard, while Adobe’s Flash is closed and proprietary.” – Apple Official Statement.

Tuesday | New MacBooks Announced

devin — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 16:52:09 +0000

It’s about time!

AT&T brings back performance just in time for the iPad

devin — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 04:58:09 +0000

So for the iPad: to 3G, or not to 3G. That is the question.

$15 for 250Mb, $30 for unlimited.

Windows Mobile 7 Announced

devin — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 23:11:35 +0000

Very Zuney indeed. My immediate impression: Not bad, but I’m cautious because it’s a Microsoft product.

Take that Engadget trolls!

devin — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 02:08:48 +0000

Comments have gotten so heated lately (probably because of the iPad, Mac vs Windows wars) that Engadget had to shut down comments on their blog for a while.

“What is normally a charged — but fun — environment for our users and editors has become mean, ugly, pointless, and frankly threatening in some situations… and that’s just not acceptable. Some of you out there in the world of anonymous grandstanding have gotten the impression that you run the place, but that’s simply not the case.”

Goooo Engadget! [via Jamey]

I call BS

devin — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 17:15:17 +0000

the information we’re hearing is that Apple is thinking much larger for another version of the product, maybe all the way up to the 15.4″ size that it currently uses for one version of the MacBook Pro. If you think that would be way too big for an iPad, we’re also hearing that this other tablet would be quite a bit different from the one revealed last week. Namely, it could run a version of OS X much closer to the traditional version that runs on Macs.

Seems weird that they would come out with a tablet that runs OS X. Unless the OS was radically different, I don’t see them slapping multitouch on Snow Leopard (like Microsoft has done with Windows 7). Traditional Desktop OS’s have never been popular on a tablet device.

I think it’s very possible in the near future to see larger applications of multitouch capability from Apple, but not running on traditional OS X.

Umm… that’s an interesting analogy…

devin — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 07:52:25 +0000

Syrup on a burger? I’ll pass. Oh yea, and I agree that Windows 7 is not an operating system built for multitouch.