A good friend refers to the Apple App Store as the California Lottery. So I thought I’d do some rough numbers on how feasible it is to build a big software business creating apps for iPad and iPhone and selling them in Apple’s App Store. The Apple App Store will still own three quarters of […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
October 7, 2009 | Apple | No comments
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 […]
April 11, 2009 | Apple | 3 comments
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 […]
April 10, 2009 | Apple | No comments
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 […]
May 1, 2008 | Apple | No comments