There’s a fantastic article in the New York Times about a boy whose life has been changed by the iPad. It mirrors many of my experiences with my son, so I’m reposting this article I wrote for the Hands and Voices Newsletter. When my son Scott first saw an iPhone, he was four years old. [...]
The following is a guest post I wrote for the Parallels Blog. I’m a web developer working at a huge company, and as far as I know, I’m the only one using a Mac. We develop web based software for several clients and naturally maintain a myriad of servers with various staging and development environments. [...]
Multi-touch is the new interface buzz-word of the last few years, inciting a geek-frenzy after its big screen debut in “Minority Report”. While such an interface is still a little bit far fetched for the consumer market, the multi-touch concept has made its way to consumers, notably via the iPhone and the trackpads of the [...]
I have a late 2008 15″ MacBook Pro – the first of the unibody models. It’s got 4GB RAM, and it’s an amazing machine. But like anything I’ve had for more than a year, it’s starting to feel a little slower than I remember. A fresh installation of Leopard always helps, and although defragging hard [...]
There are thousands of web hosting / co-location services out there, but as far as I know, there are none that will co-locate a server that can be shipped in a shoebox, and will treat it like it belongs in a rack, next to the big boys. Macminicolo.net does just that. You send them a [...]
If you are a web developer, and you spend a lot of time writing code, and you use a Mac, you need to use Coda. Download it here Coda is marketed as “one window web development” and it really is. I’ve been going back and forth between Dreamweaver and Eclipse for coding over the past [...]