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I’ve been learning something new this week (which happens on a regular basic), but this time it was very official, I actually went to a training.
It was decided, that I had to learn Python, which is a programming language, and yet another of the scripting ones – we already have Perl,
One of the most annoying things with the iPhone is that on have to pay through the nose to get an unlocked iPhone (current only Orange in France, and they charge €699 – afair), and Apple have an silly idea about programs on it – the SDK is a great idea, but I’m still [...]
Well I got one of these 21th century gadgets, up to now I’ve never really been in to ‘smartphones’, I in general find them way to bulky, and way to expensive. Then on top of that there are phones which are based on Symbian, Microsoft Mobile OS, and then there is RIM with their BlackBerries [...]
I wrote here about my happiness with Leopard (Apple OSX 10.5) and the implementation of PHP which they have put together.
Well Apple just released 10.5.2 (OSX 10.5 Update 2), and still there is no GD library in php, which means that it is still more or less useless to use for anything.
Let’s [...]
I have been moaning about the missing support for OSX from Garmin. I as everyone else have been forced to use either a PC running Windows, or run Windows in a virtual machine to do anything with our GPS. MapSource is a great piece of software, but it is fortunately Windows only.
During MacWorld 2008 [...]
Wireless networks have been around for sometime, and I have had it for years as it makes it easier to take my notebook with me around the house.
I have the first generation of the Apple Macbook Pro’s which does not come with a 802.11n card, which have been annoying me for a while, so [...]
Almost a year ago I wrote about MacFuse, which is a great way of incorporating 3rd party filesystems into Apple OSX. One of the things iis to be able to have SpotLight as a filesystem.
But the new thing (relatively) is iTunesFS, which allows you to use finder to look at your iTunes [...]
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