I have started to seriously play with Objective C and XCode about week ago. So far it was very pleasant experience. I really like the language – feels like Ruby (or Smalltalk if you want) with rocket launcher: very powerful, blastingly fast and dangerous like hell. No array boundary checks as in Java . The [...]
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XCode annoyances
2008/09/01The Things bliss
2008/08/24Finally – the new version of Things on iPhone can synchronize with Things on Mac desktop. It actually works – no strings attached. Assumed that: 1) the WiFi on iPhone is on 2) iPhone and Mac are on same network (so that Bonjour magic can work) 3) the Mac Things is running when you start [...]
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 [...]
It arrived
2008/08/14Mac #3 in our household (after Macbook and Macbook Pro): The beautiful 20″, 4GB RAM, 750 GB HDD, about to replace the old tablet my wife was using and as school computer. PS: In the excitement of the event I forgot to publish this so it was sitting in Drafts until Saturday. Publishing with original [...]
ByMUG meeting – August
2008/08/05This Sunday, as every first Sunday in month we had regular Bytown Mac User Group meeting at usual place – Patty Bolands Pub at the Market. It was great meeting because we had many newcomers – both to the group as well as to the platform, including very fresh Mac switch – a happy owner [...]
iPhone 3G first impressions: Email, Web, Camera, GPS, Data Plan
2008/08/04continued from here Email My email information was transferred from Touch as part of the activation process and started to work right away. Very good and functional user interface. I also found the mobile Google page (http://www.google.com/m) to be very useful – it adds easy access to small screen optimized versions of the Calendar and [...]
iPhone 3G first impressions: Activation
2008/08/03There more than enough reviews and opinions on the coolest gadget in the telephony space so what is point o adding another one ? I was originally quite anti-iPhone anti-Rogers for – IMHO – pretty strong reasons, so it is interesting to review them and see how they survived the reality check. That maybe not [...]
iPhone 3G – I surrender
2008/07/30I was holding off for over two weeks, decided not go with that outrageous iPhone voice/data racket. Even trying to encourage people to wait in a hope the demand will be weak and Rogers will bend and lower the rates. Only, it was not. I mean demand. iPhones seems to be selling better than beaver [...]
Back to normal
2008/06/12So, after few days working diskless, I am back to normal operation mode. About time, we are late with last episode of screencast … The copying of external disk went error free and took almost 5 hours (210 GB). Fortunately, the MBP was usable – I did not want to modify too many files, but [...]
Diskless Macbook Pro
2008/06/09So, I have positive proof that the file system crash of last week was not a software problem in Leopard, but indeed caused by hardware failure. After restoring system from Time Machine, things looked pretty good – everything seemed to work. I was able to re-render the screencasts I have lost – I mean I [...]
