| Maximum PC covers the best synchronization tools on the market. Personally, I use MobileMe for bookmarks, contacts, and calendars, then Dropbox for files. This keeps my MacBook Pro, Mac Mini, and iPhone in perfect sync. |
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| Time is running out quickly for the optical medium. Even with Bluray, I have no problem working with just flash memory. I say, sure, take away my optical disc; I won’t miss it. |
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| If you’re like me and are loving the iPhone 3.0’s push notifications, but wished you had something useful to actually be notified about, take a look at Prowl. The app pushes Mac Growl notifications to your iPhone. Amazing idea. |
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| Well, another month, another set of movies. We’re two months into the summer movie season and most of the blockbuster releases are already behind us. That doesn’t mean there still aren’t some great upcoming movies. Read on to find out my opinion of The Hangover, Year One, and Transformers 2.
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| Today was Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference, and like always, Apple gave developers and Apple fanatics alike some new treats. If you haven’t caught the keynote yet, Apple has posted a video on their website. There has been an abundance of conference coverage today, so I’m going assume you caught up.
My Thoughts
The clear theme of [...] |
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| At 1pm EST today, gdgt live will be providing live coverage of Apple’s WWDC 2009. The live coverage will be delivered on a greatly improved system developed by Spiral Web Consulting. If you are interested in Apple’s event or just want to see what Spiral Web Consulting is up to, be sure to check it [...] |
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| Eston Bond, a Spymaster developer, explains why #spymaster notifications are not spam and are really a problem with the Twitter platform itself. I completely agree with him. Twitter needs a way to filter messages, and if they don’t provide this support soon, client developers will. |
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| WordPress 2.8 is due any week now, and op111.net has a great rundown of all the new features available in the update. This doesn’t even include the new functionality available to plugin/theme developers. |
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| In a stupid mistake caused by switching web hosts, I found out today that Spiral Web Consulting’s contact form was broken since May 2, 2009. The issue has now been resolved, and I’m hoping anyone who used the contact form will resend their message. |
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| It’s that time of year again, summer movie time! While the season is technically still spring, that doesn’t stop the major studios from pumping out their biggest releases.
Current Releases: May Edition
Although I’m not a huge movie buff, I still enjoy catching the big releases. Since I’ll be seeing most of the popular movies this summer, [...] |
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| This week is a key moment in Google’s life. It is being challenged by a change in the ecosystem. We’ve seen this happen with other companies before. Remember Microsoft in 1994-1996? It responded to the changes in how we exchange information by turning the company hard toward the Internet. Too hard, actually. Bill Gates steered [...] |
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| In a proud moment for me, Google wrote about Google Analyticator on their Analytics blog and featured the plugin in their examples page today.
For those of you who don’t know, Google Analyticator was the first WordPress plugin I wrote, and practically one of the first major PHP projects I undertook. Since handing the plugin off [...] |
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