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Going Paperless
Saturday, October 25th, 2008Devin Reams of Crowd Favorite has posted his notes on going paperless at home and at the office. I remain unconvinced that recycling paper has any value, but agree that not dealing with paper in the first place is more convenient, and that's good enough for me.
Brightkite
Monday, October 20th, 2008The long-awaited Brightkite iPhone app has hit the App Store. Congratulations to Martin, Brady, and the rest of the Brightkite team.
Cisco VPN Fix
Friday, October 17th, 2008I live with the OS X Cisco VPN client running nearly non-stop, and occasionally get this frustrating error: Error 51: Unable to communicate with the VPN subsystem. Please make sure that you have at least one network interface that is currently active and has an IP address and start this application ...
Apple Drops iPhone NDA
Wednesday, October 1st, 2008Never underestimate the power of mass complaining. Apple is dropping the NDA for released iPhone software: We put the NDA in place because the iPhone OS includes many Apple inventions and innovations that we would like to protect, so that others don’t steal our work. It has happened before. While we ...
• BeejiveIM
Sunday, September 28th, 2008BeejiveIM has hit the App Store with their entry in the battle for iPhone IM superiority. Let's get right to it. Aside from XMPP, Beejive offers AIM, ICQ, MSN/Windows Live, MySpace IM, and Yahoo! Messenger support. Their XMPP support comes in two flavors: "Jabber", or pre-configured Google Talk. Strangely, configuring ...
MobileChat Updates Rejected by Apple
Friday, September 26th, 2008Just when I was starting to get annoyed that twenty08 wasn't fixing bugs, Saverio informs us that the blame falls on Apple: I understand that people are frustrated and are tired of waiting and Shaun and I feel absolutely terrible. However, all I can offer is your money back. For that, ...
iPhone Developer University
Monday, September 22nd, 2008Apple has (finally) launched a program that will allow the teaching of iPhone development. From Macworld: The program, available to accredited institutions in the U.S., allows teachers to create iPhone developer teams of up to 200 students who can develop, test, debug, and distribute applications amongst themselves or even via the ...
iPhone App Directory
Friday, September 5th, 2008iGoApps allows for easier and reportedly better app searching than iTunes.
Google Chrome
Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008By now you've probably heard about this a hundred times over, but Google is deploying their own browser. One process per tab is a pretty good idea, and it's built on Webkit, which means long-term benefits for Safari. I predict that Chrome will be heavily discussed, heavily downloaded, and rarely ...
• IM+
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008What's this? Another multi-protocol IM client for the iPhone? IM+ just appeared on the App Store, and at the competitive price of free. A quick look at the developer's website reveals IM+ to be a multi-platform client, with versions available for most mobile phones. They're also based in Germany, which may explain ...
Adium 1.3
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008The Adium team has released version 1.3. The parts that matter: Jabber/XMPP Fixed authentication on XMPP in cases where GSSAPI fails (#9492) Fixed bug where you couldn't join a group chat after trying and failing once (#1874; #7388) Fixed not updating the userlist for nickname changes in group chats (#479) Fixed bug that would allow you ...
Microsoft and Seinfeld Address Vista Quality Concerns
Thursday, August 21st, 2008How, you ask? With better marketing. Their new attempt to bring users back into the fold is reportedly fueled by $300 million. Sounds serious. $10 million of that is going to Seinfeld. That’s not a bad fee for selling out after featuring Macs so long as his computer of choice ...
ApolloIM Founder Joins twenty08
Wednesday, August 20th, 2008In a blog post, MobileChat developer Saverio "we are not evil" Modelli officially welcomed ApolloIM founder Alex Schaefer to twenty08. Alex will be working exclusively on the MobileChat iPhone client and will be working to improve stability as well as the overall user experience. We’ve discussed some great plans for UI improvements and we’re very ...
Amazon Prime
Monday, August 11th, 2008Amazon Prime. Quite possibly the best $79 I've ever spent. As an Amazon affiliate program member, I received an email this morning suggesting that I pimp the Amazon Prime service. I have belonged to a lot of affiliate programs over the years, and I get these all the time. Usually they ...