I have been Cultured Code customer for over 2 years and used multiple their products: Things on OS-X, Things for iPad and iPhone on daily basis. Not any more. I am definitely giving up on Things and Cultured Code products. The reason why is sheer frustration from long wait on usable synchronization between Things on [...]
Archive for the ‘Apple’ category
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2011/06/18Microsoft Office 2008 vs NeoOffice vs iWorks'08
2009/04/28I was happy user of the iWork Suite 08 since I moved to OS-X. It somehow better matches the way I am thinking and does much better job than Office to get me from idea to acceptable looking rendering of that idea in the form of document, spreadsheet or presentation. In past two month I [...]
Almost perfect backup backup solution
2009/03/24The double backup word in the title is not an oversight. If I would be talking about “almost perfect backup solution”, it would be Time Machine – which has proven, despite it’s minor annoyances (see this) to be very unobtrusive and functional. As long as you have Mac and Leopard, of course. What I am [...]
The myth of premium hardware or why Ottawa needs Apple Store
2009/02/23Back in November 2007, when I was buying Macbook Pro, I did order the AppleCare option, which added several hundred dollars to already pretty expensive notebook price. For moment I was tempted to go without it – after all, Apple makes top grade, high quality hardware and considering pretty low failure rate I have seen [...]
How to un-stuck unsuccessful OS-X upgrade
2009/02/07Here is the context: in order to upgrade iLife 08 to iLife’09 (which is very nice, btw), I had to install 10.5.6 upgrade. And according Murphy’s law, one of the 2 GB DIMM’s in my MacBook Pro went bad exactly during the OS-X upgrade process. It had two rather unpleasant consequences: some of the patch [...]
iPhone firmware 2.1 – first impressions
2008/09/16I was brave and updated right away last Friday, as soon as the update appeared, both the iTunes and the iPhone firmware. And so far, so good. Initial observations are quite positive – at least so far, from using it during last few days. I never had any issues with the dropped calls, so I [...]
Objective C: I really miss namespaces
2008/09/02One feature that I strongly miss from Objective C are namespaces. Inability to avoid name clash between your classes sometimes really stands in your way. I am reading S. Kochan’s book “Programming in Objective C” and in one of the examples he creates the class Point. Unfortunately, there already is struct Point defined in mactypes.h. [...]
More on kCFErrorDomainCFNetwork Error 302
2008/08/28A friend made me aware of this (thanks, Peter): The Inside Deets on iPhone 2.0.2 and Dropped Calls http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2008/08/28/the-inside-deets-on-iphone-202-and-dropped-calls/ Sounds like plausible explanation. It is not the network that is fault but the interaction of the bad power control algorithm in 2.0 and 2.0.1 software and the network that is at fault. The sooner everybody [...]
iPhone 3G first impressions: Applications
2008/08/21Having used Touch 2.0, I managed not to install everything I found in AppStore. Majority of which is crap anyway – people are still learning how to use the platform properly. Pretty soon though, all those flashlights, tip calculators and similar pointless-ware will be replaced by apps that make sense. I hope. Just for the [...]
iTunes AppStore update chaos
2008/08/20I just noticed strange thing: it is most likely unrelated, but it happened right after installing 2.0.2 firmware. The count of updates for AppStore applications is pretty chaotic. You can see different number of updates when looking into different parts of iTunes. I have noticed this cycle repeating for 9 updates, then 8 and so [...]
