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Focus

(yes, this is an old topic, but I’m a slow blogger. Anyway…) Of all the material that came under the spotlight shortly after Steve Jobs’s death, the most interesting one I’ve seen by far was his WWDC keynote from 1997 … Continue reading

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Thank you Steve…

… for making things so much more interesting.

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Changes

Usually, the month of August is a quiet one as far as news are concerned. Not this year. In a few short weeks, Google buys Motorola (the mobile division), HP goes out of the hardware business (and axes its WebOS … Continue reading

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Thoughts and questions after the WWDC 2011 keynote

I haven’t finished watching the keynote yet but have read most of what there’s to read about it, so here goes. Also, that will be a nice change not to write about something 5 months after. First, no questions about … Continue reading

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edenx update

In the last few months I’ve had enough free time (i.e. less concerts to shoot) to resume work on edenx. Long before that I had converted most of Rosegarden’s Rulers code. This wasn’t a port, since I’m using CoreData structures, … Continue reading

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Update on iPhone vs. Android

So where are we now. Android has taken over, in terms of number of handsets running it. That was rather obvious. The consensus is, it’s “Mac OS vs. Windows all over again”. That’s also hard to escape : a “luxury” … Continue reading

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more random bits (told-you-so category)

Flash on mobile sucks : Avram Piltch from LaptopMag actually tests Flash on Android : “When Flash 10.1 for Android is good, it’s great, but when it’s bad, it can make even the harshest Apple critic want to e-mail Steve … Continue reading

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Random tidbits

Sooo, First, I finally caved in and moved my site to Gandi, because my previous host had apparently stopped keeping its platform up to date. Second, this article made me smile. It’s a pretty standard diatribe against overly geeky linux … Continue reading

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About that Safari 5 reader…

Nice piece about the Safari 5 ‘reader’ feature from Nik Fletcher – (also, Jim Lynch’s post on the same topic is hilarious – it seems to be hard for a blogger to exercise restrain and not invoke impending doom at … Continue reading

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A quick reality check for Vic Gundotra

Something which occurred to me shortly after watching the now famous Google IO Android keynote. At one point, when about to demonstrate tethering, Vic Gundotra says“if you’re like me, you have a plethora of devices you carry around with you. … Continue reading

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