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15 September 2009 ~ Comments

Make Snow Leopard and Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection Play Nice

After upgrading my MacBook Pro to Snow Leopard I noticed that Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection would no longer allow me to connect to my machine running Windows Vista.  My first reaction was to do what every self-respecting interweb guru does when something goes awry—hit up Google.  After spending about 5 hours trying every potential solution [...]

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08 December 2008 ~ Comments

MePing Beta 7 Released

I’ve made a few additions to MePing as well as fixed what I hope is one last remaining bug with the AIR update framework. Hopefully, this is the last version of the app users will need to manually download. Check out the MePing page to see what’s new and download the latest version.
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21 November 2008 ~ Comments

Using Street View in Maps on iPhone OS 2.2

I updated my iPhone to OS 2.2 this morning fully expecting to open Maps app and see a “Street View” button somewhere after it pin-pointed my location. This did not happen and I assumed that the feature did not work or that it was not available in my area. It turns out I [...]

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22 July 2008 ~ Comments

WordPress for iPhone

WordPress just released their native iPhone app for hosted blogs as well as those on wordpress.com. Setup is simple and so is posting. You can even include pictures from your iPhone as seen below. Very nice.

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19 July 2008 ~ Comments

iPhone Dev Team Releases Pwnage Tool 2.0

Just happened a few minutes ago.  Check it out at http://bit.ly/2JFZIT
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10 July 2008 ~ Comments

Evernote iPhone Application Looks Awesome

After perusing the iTunes App store for a few minutes, I noticed that Evernote is releasing an iPhone client. It looks awesome. Now if only I could use these damn things…

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10 July 2008 ~ Comments

Apple’s App Store is Live…Sort of

As expected, MobileMe is up and ready to go this morning. Maybe not so unexpected, at least at this particular time of the day, is the launch of iTunes 7.7 and the app store. Install and launch iTunes 7.7, search for “AIM” and notice that the AIM application is listed in the search results. Click [...]

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17 June 2008 ~ Comments

AIR Installation Error

I just tried to install Twhirl on my iMac running 10.5.3 and got this error: “The application could not be installed because the AIR file is damaged. Try obtaining a new AIR file from the application author. Has anyone found a way to get around or fix this?

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17 June 2008 ~ Comments

Exchange Server for the Rest of Us?

After Apple’s unveiling of MobileMe, touted as Exchange for the rest of us, I started wondering about the possibility of a potentially much more disruptive angle that Apple could take with the service(s). What if Apple included all of the backend bits that power MobileMe into the next or some future version of Mac OS [...]

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18 May 2008 ~ Comments

Dropbox Invites

I finally got invited to beta test the very cool Dropbox file synchronization service from the guys over here. I have a few invites remaining (7 I believe.) Leave a comment here and I’ll invite until I run out.
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