Jul 14 2012
I’ve recently been reading through Steve Jobs’ biography, a phenomenal work by Walter Isaacson. A point that Isaacson keeps coming back to throughout the book is that Steve Jobs revolutionized six different industries: animated movies (through Pixar), personal computing, tablet computing, phones, digital publishing, and music. I don’t disagree with Isaacson. Jobs did revolutionize the …
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Jan 18 2012
The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA) are two bills currently mingling in the United States House of Representatives. It would take too much time and effort for me to explain how ludicrous it is that we have misinformed politicians writing litigation for an internet that they apparently do …
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Feb 07 2011
For as long as I’ve been developing in Java, its lack of native support for OS X has always bothered me. This is more than likely an issue with Apple’s proprietary interface rather than Java, but, for the sake of being loyal to my Master, we’ll pretend the fault is on Java. I don’t want …
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Nov 12 2010
Let Me Do What I Want with My MacMini I ordered a MacMini Server at the beginning of the month. Rather than buying the client-side hardware, I purchased the server because it had a faster processor and bigger hard drive at a smaller cost. So why not? Unfortunately, it came with OS X Snow Leopard …
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Sep 04 2009
After hours of frustration and failure, I finally set up a USB bootable Linux distribution that worked on both a BIOS-based PC or EFI-based Apple system. Ten minutes later, I repeated the process with a second distribution. I’ve been perusing this fine internet of hours all day, reviewing and attempting to complete step-by-step tutorials that …
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Aug 05 2009
This is something I’ve been mulling over for the last couple of months, but it wasn’t until hearing the continued “Apple or Microsoft” arguments at camp this week that I was finally moved to write this. So, in a manner of speaking, this one’s for you, Jesse and Joe. Oh, and Erin, I’ll try to …
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Jul 15 2009
Kylee reprimanded me for not blogging enough. While this is a very valid accusation, I’ve decided to oblige her in only the most annoying sort of way. So here you go, Kylee. A blog post just for you. Enjoy. Visa Overcharges Customers There’s no way this can work out in a positive manner for …
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Oct 18 2008
There’s a lot of commotion over Apple’s newest line of MacBooks, MacBook Pros, iMacs, Cinema Displays, etc. But there’s something that seems severely lacking. Where are the Blu-Ray drives, Apple? Sure, you gave us a Wireless N card. You gave us 39% more on our touchpad for the MacBook and the MacBook Pros, made of …
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Apr 21 2008
Remember back when NBC got a little too full of itself a while back and decided to yank its shows from iTunes? They pressured Apple to increase the prices of songs and shows that were more popular in order to make more profit; thankfully, Apple refused to cave. NBC threatened to not resign their contract …
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Dec 25 2007
Since I want to be able to claim credit for this before it happens, I decided to blog about where I think the future of Digital Media lies. The current fight is between whether to produce solely HD DVDs or Blu-Ray Discs, though that fight is almost over seeing as how the HD DVD format …
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