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Apr
9
Posted by mark.
Being over 35 has it’s advantages. Us old(ish) timers have lived through Microsoft using their platform to beat the hell out of Novell, Netscape, Real Player and others. Watched Eric Schmidt’s ascension from platform victim to platform player. And learned that platforms are honey traps that give good honey but you might get caught.
Twitter Investor Fred Wilson wrote a much talked about post earlier this week that sparked a discussion about whether Twitter would implement critical apps themselves. Seesmic founder …
Nov
20
Posted by mark.
Want to freak out your wife/husband/kids?
On a mac that you have access to:
Go to ‘System Preferences’. Under ‘Internet & Networking’ there is a ‘Sharing’ icon. Run that. In the list that appears, check the ‘Remote Login’ option.
Then ssh into your mac remotely by downloading putty if you’re on a pc or launch a terminal on another mac and run “ssh username@ip.address” without quotes to ssh to the mac while someone is working on it.
Once you’re logged in:
Crank up the volume …
Oct
7
Posted by mark.
I recently upgraded our router to the Linksys WRT320N router. I set the router to only transmit on 5GHz and the performance has been awesome because all our neighbors are still on 2.4 GHz, our 2.4 GHz cordless phones don’t interfere with our WiFi anymore and because 5GHz is better at getting around corners and going through walls.
Awesome… except on my personal MacBook.
Earlier today I was on a 3.5 hour skype call (!!!) and every few minutes I’d get a …
Apr
11
Posted by mark.
Update: According to my live traffic feed, busted iphones are hip. My bro posted this to reddit.
Update2: @chrisrodde Just reminded me that this will be my third iPhone – I drowned the last one on a fishing trip with him.
Update3: Just visited AT&T. The conversation went like this:
AT&T guy: Um yeah, so lets see if we can do anything for you here today.
Me: Great! So maybe I can get a discount on a 16G iPhone? [Thinking I can pay less …
Apr
10
Posted by mark.
This is an internal video of Steve Jobs at NeXT in 1991. Skip to about 4:30 in the video:
Those MS ads you’ve been seeing recently that keep mentioning Apple are exactly what Steve Jobs wanted with NeXT – that every customer of the market leader also considered his product. And Microsoft just made that happen for Apple.
Congratulations Steve! Now that your competition has leveled the marketing playing field for you, all you need to do is keep building a better …
May
1
Posted by mark.
I started programming on an Apple IIe at around age 11 and if you too enjoy reminiscing, check out Joshua Bell’s Apple Basic emulator implemented in Javascript.
Since my move (back) to using Apple I think my code has improved – if nothing else then from a feeling of happy nostalgia.
…And I couldn’t help myself. I wrote a similar program as a kid – except back then we had a green monochrome screen.
10 HOME : HGR
20 W = 279 : …