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December 2010
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November 2010
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October 2010
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Will there be a Mac App Store? Yes.
April: No
October: Yes
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September 2010
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A list of O'Reilly books available as iPhone apps →
This doesn’t seem to be easy to find elsewhere, so I thought I’d put the current list of them together. I plan to make them sortable and searchable at a later point.
I couldn’t put the table in a post, so I put them on a static page.
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Physical aspects of the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet
I’m not sure where the dimensions of the PlayBook given on Wikipedia are from, and it’s likely that they are not entirely accurate. But comparing the figures: 130mm x 194mm x 9.7mm, with those of the iPad: 242.8m x 189.7mm x 13.4mm. So that the ratios are 54%, 102%, and 72% respectively. Whilst the weight of the PlayBook at (roughly) 400g is 59% that of the iPad (at 680g). So whilst...
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July 2010
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SproutCore - Home →
GPU Computing - General Topics | GPU Computing →
June 2010
3 posts
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Practical Common Lisp →
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How Mixendo XHR works - Mixendo Doc →
Short answer: they provide a replacement XMLHTTPRequest object and a proxy.
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Stick with me, baby! - the macbookmos collection →
“A moustache is a badge of honour. Don’t leave your Mac looking whack, get a big, hairy mo. Some will fear you, all will respect you.”
May 2010
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The People's Sprites →
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Pingus - A journey into the unknown... [Release... →
Open source Lemmings clone
Cryptographer's World -- Authors →
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English Premier League Graphs and Charts →
English Premier League Graphs and Charts. Stats stats and more stats.
Macbuzzer - mac software bundles gone insane... →
Mac games download →
Mac games download
How to create rain clouds with lasers -... →
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Projects | Fuse Labs →
New projects at Microsoft’s Fuse Labs.
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The Humble Indie Bundle (pay what you want for... →
Pay what you want for five cross-platform games and donate to two non-profits. This promotion has no middleman: all of the proceeds go directly to the developers and non-profits!
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TheMusic.FM →
Music blog offering the latest in modern music news, mp3s, videos, concert and album reviews. Based in New York City.
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melophobe - concert reviews and concert photos →
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sciencehackday [licensed for non-commercial use... →
April 2010
10 posts
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Thoughts on Flash →
Steve Jobs’ official word on why Apple are all anti-Flash.
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Libre.fm →
Open source audio alternative to last.fm
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The Joy of Tech comic... Steve Jobs Email Reply... →
Why bother emailing Steve Jobs just to get a “nope” back. Use this instead!
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DTMD (Dunc & Toine Makin' Dollas) →
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When Is 54 Not Equal to 54? A Look at 802.11a, b,... →
Protection mechanisms added to 802.11g to ensure backwards compatibility with legacy 802.11b clients can cut the throughput by 50 percent or more.
Bandwidth benchmarks | web.forret.com →
Actual bandwidth throughput values - real benchmark
Lost Garden →
Etsy :: Your place to buy and sell all things... →
Buy and sell handmade or vintage items, art and supplies on Etsy, the world’s most vibrant handmade marketplace. Share stories through millions of items from around the world.
January 2010
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MythTV working very slightly better after...
Just before the Christmas holiday I decided that I’d update MythTV to the then recently released 0.22. Since the latest Freeview retune lots of channels had been broken, and MythTV backend setup was unable to find most of the channels, and the ones that it did would only get a lock intermittently.
Anyway, upgrading Myth broke lots of things under Ubuntu 8.04, so I finally bit the bullet and...