In less than 12 hours I will be on a plane on my way to San Francisco for the week. I'll be attending the O'Reilly Fluent conference Tuesday through Thursday for work. It's a tech conference focused on JavaScript and rich client web development, which is what I do every day. It's my first conference …
My Retina MacBook Pro
I finally took the plunge and purchased the 13" Retina MacBook Pro that I've been talking about for a few months. After briefly considering 16 GB memory and 512 GB SSD upgrades I decided to go with the standard mid-tier model: 8 GB memory and 256 MB SSD. I've been using it for a couple …
2013 Clean Out: HP TouchPad: Dead Product Review
This is part of my end-of-the-year cleaning of draft posts. I wrote this two years ago about HP's severely-discounted self-imposed failure that was the TouchPad tablet. I intended to review it thoroughly but never finished the review and never will. I'm posting it here in its draft state for anyone interested. I still have my …
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My New SSD
My next computer will be a MacBook Air, that I've already stated. When I talked about it last, I said that I'd keep using my MacBook Pro for the next couple of years and that my next upgrade would be to replace my hard drive with a much faster SSD. Well that day has come. …
Facebook: From Native to HTML 5 and Back
Facebook released version 5.0 of its mobile application for iOS yesterday touting greatly improved performance as its major feature. It looks almost exactly the same as the version it replaces but it runs much, much faster mainly due to a complete about-face the company made in terms of its application architecture and mobile strategy. Last …
Android on My TouchPad
It's been almost a year since I bought an HP TouchPad for $99. Since then it's been sitting on my desk as an occasional digital picture frame and clock. If you don't know what the TouchPad is, it is a tablet that was released in 2011 to compete with the iPad. Like the iPad it …
Replaced Our "Tivo"… with a Tivo
In 1999 the Tivo introduced the world to digital video recording. It combined modern computing with the television by allowing users to schedule recordings based on an onscreen guide instead of manually programming a VCR for a specific time slot. It allowed users to subscribe to an entire season of a show and would record …
Destroy Zombie iCloud Bookmarks for Good
I have a bunch of Apple products so I was really excited when Apple introduced iCloud with Safari bookmarking. It allows me to sync my bookmarks between my two Macs (running a total of three installations of Mac OS X), iPhone, and iPad. Each time I make changes to my bookmarks on one device it …
Google Play
Google announced its music store, Google Music, in November 2011. It is similar to the iTunes store, except it also allows you to stream your purchased music online and even upload your own music to stream as well (like Amazon Cloud Player). At the time I wasn’t interested because the pricing was similar to the …
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