Archive for June, 2007
It appears Apple’s iPhone uses the following User Agent:
Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/1A543a Safari/419.3
A quick search of the log files turns up a hit for me. IP address is from Apple, so I’d presume it was using WiFi to connect via Apple’s corporate network, [...]
Sunday, June 10th, 2007 Posted in Apple, Hardware | 2 Comments »
Drobo initially didn’t impress me to much, but after watching a demo I’m somewhat impressed. The positives:
The hotswapping, RAID-like (but not RAID) redundancy is awesome. That’s perfect for backup/bulk storage purposes.
Transfer isn’t bad (Up to read 22MB/s write 20MB/s)
Power consumption idles at about 12 watts which isn’t bad.
Adding storage capacity is really easy.
There [...]
Thursday, June 7th, 2007 Posted in Hardware, Networking | No Comments »
Om Malik got to ask the new Joost CEO Mike Volpi a few questions. One really caught my eye:
OM: Is there a chance we will see Joost on AppleTV?
MV: We would love to put Joost on the Apple TV platform. We know we can make it run on any operating system.
Isn’t it great to [...]
Wednesday, June 6th, 2007 Posted in Apple, Mozilla | 3 Comments »
Kiplinger has a great story on phishing and security. The bottom line: while progress has been made there’s still a long way to go. Here was a very concerning piece:
When researchers at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology studied the anti-fraud image system used by Bank of America, they found that [...]
Tuesday, June 5th, 2007 Posted in Mozilla, Security | 1 Comment »
Not too long after Sun put some resources into giving OpenOffice some Mac love, OpenOffice for Mac is finally becoming a reality. It’s great to see this happen. There are a fair amount of serious issues, and I wouldn’t recommend running it yet, but keep an eye out. This can really change [...]
Tuesday, June 5th, 2007 Posted in Apple, Software | No Comments »
Is the Segway still cool? I don’t know, I tried one and liked it, but I think I might like this even better.
[Hat tip: Gizmodo]
Tuesday, June 5th, 2007 Posted in Around The Web, Funny | 2 Comments »
Camino 1.5 is out. It’s a great product for Mac users. Lets face it, the best browsers are on the Mac right now. Camino, Firefox, Safari, Shiira, and OmniWeb. All provide an excellent user experience. Camino is a great balance between the Gecko rendering engine (which has the benefit of [...]
Tuesday, June 5th, 2007 Posted in Apple, Mozilla | 2 Comments »
I’m thinking this is an easter egg.
Reminds me of the old Apple easter egg with the developers faces.
Saturday, June 2nd, 2007 Posted in Funny, Google | No Comments »
In case you were wondering what Google Gears meant to the planned support for Offline Web Applications in Firefox 3.0, here’s an article you may be interested in. No definitive answers, but does mention the possibility of combining ideas.
Google Gears is pretty cool, but I’d be much more comfortable if Google submitted the API [...]
Friday, June 1st, 2007 Posted in Google, Mozilla, Web Development | 2 Comments »