January 2008
The internet is a joke! →
.. if the bandwidth of entire regions, from Egypt to India is affected by some underwater cables! The quality of internet service has been horrible for the past two days. In Kuwait Wednesday morning, I felt how slow everything was. Today, Thursday, in Jordan things have also been pretty bad. BBC NEWS | Technology | Web disturbances […]
Internet Outages Hit India, Middle East →
India’s lucrative outsourcing industry struggled Thursday to overcome Internet slowdowns and outages after cuts in two undersea cables sliced the country’s bandwidth in half.
MacBook Airs hot off the presses, but not in... →
While everyone’s abuzz about the new MacBook Air (or not), it appears that while individual orders are coming in to eagerly awaiting customers, those hoping to procure one in one of them brick n’ mortar stores just might be out of luck. Says our sister publication, Computerworld:Several calls to Apple retail stores in New York, Oregon and elsewhere, however, failed to turn up a MacBook...
The Pirate Bay Makes $4 Million a Year on Illegal... →
When it comes to peer-to-peer file-sharing, as soon as one site is shut down, another takes its place. The current darling of the P2P world is the Pirate Bay, a search engine for BitTorrent files across the Web. It doesn’t actually host any of the files, but that is not stopping Swedish prosecutors from dragging them into court on behalf of Warner Bros., Colombia Pictures, 20th Century Fox, Sony...
Amazon acquires Audible.com →
Amazon today announced that it would be acquiring long time Apple partner Audible.com. This is another move in Amazon’s bid to become a dominant force in the realm of digital downloads. Under the terms of the agreement, Amazon.com will commence a cash tender offer to purchase all of the outstanding shares of Audible.com for $11.50 per share.
There is no official word yet on how this will affect...
For The Ladies: Sweet Doggie Bags! →
Now these are some of the sweetest doggie bags I’ve ever seen. They’re little dachshunds! How cuuute. Precious actually. Except for the eyes. I’m thinking they should have gone with googly eyes instead of the X eyes. They come in black, brown, and red and will set you back a staggering $250. Of course you could probably sew your own together for far cheaper. This would make a...
JUST NOW IN SWEDEN: Four indicted in Pirate Bay... →
Four people involved in the running of file-sharing site The Pirate Bay were indicted in Sweden on Thursday on charges of being accessories to breaking copyright law.
Internet problems →
Seems things aren’t good in the Middle East when it comes to internet:
Dubai, renowned for its high-technology facilities, has seen many of its services paralyzed by an extensive Internet failure which affected much of Asia and the Middle East on Thursday.
A major telecommunications provider blamed the outage, which started Wednesday, on a major cable failure.
Besides […]
Good news and bad news: MacBook... →
The stars have been further aligning up lately on the new MacBook Pros. If you are thinking about making an Apple laptop purchase hold out for a week or so. MacRumors thinks it will be within two weeks and some new battery specs have hit the interwebs. Also we’ve been hearing stories from retailers that new SKU’s for MacBook Pros are hitting the streets (anyone care to...
Millions in Middle East Lose Internet →
Shipwack writes “Tens of millions of internet users across the Middle East and Asia have been left without access to the web after a technical fault cut millions of connections. The outage, which is being blamed on a fault in a single undersea cable, has severely restricted internet access in countries including India, Egypt and Saudi Arabia and left huge numbers of people struggling to get...
Slow internet is better than no internet →
Just wanted to also point that out.
8 Web Design Mistakes That Developers Make →
“An excellent website takes a particularly savvy blend of both great design and great code. Because of this, you often find designers having to figure out code and developers trying their hand at design…”
Internet down. Again. →
“We are working as fast as we can.”
Said the Egyptian official off the coast of whose country the severed cable lies. A single cable which has disrupted Internet services across the majority of Middle East and India, bringing some businesses down to their knees. It’s not going to be fixed any time soon, either. It […]
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GCC urged to search elsewhere for foreign labour →
Bahrain is suffering from a serious case of Asia-phobia. Taken from Arabian Business: Bahrain’s government stressed the need for Gulf states to find alternative countries to source foreign workers from on Tuesday, warning that overdependence on existing labor export countries may lead to imposition of their own working conditions. “I do not exaggerate when I say that we will soon see a Gulf...
Inbyggt hårdvarutest i Macbook Air →
Skulle man behöva felsöka nya Macbook Air finns det massor av supportdokument tillgängliga på Apples webbplats. Tar man sig tid att läsa igenom dem finns det många intressanta detaljer att lägga märke till. Bland annat vet vi nu att Apple Hardware Test är inbyggt i datorn.
Amazon Web Services is bigger than Amazon Itself →
Web retailer Amazon has announced their fourth quarter results today, and among the released data, bandwidth consumption was the most interesting.
In terms of bandwidth, Amazon’s cloud computing services accounted for more than all of Amazon’s websites combined, taking into account that Amazon is one of the largest websites in the world (ranked 7 in the US). The number of registered developers...
Woody Allen’s Typography →
Cristian Kit Paul on the consistent typographic branding of Woody Allen’s films. Since Annie Hall in 1977, only 1978’s Interiors used anything other than EF Windsor Elongated for the titles and credits. (Via Kottke.)
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Emirates to fly daily to Houston →
Emirates airline has announced that it will offer daily flights to Houston beginning Feb. 1, reported Gulf News. The airling had recently announced three-days-a-week service to the American city, and it popular among both business and leisure travelers, according to Gaith Al Gaith, Emirates executive vice-president for commercial operations worldwide. Shippers in the oil and gas industry account...
30 Things to Do to Keep From Getting Bored Out of... →
The war between being and nothingness is the underlying illness of the twentieth century. Boredom slays more of existence than war. - Norman Mailer
I’m not one to get bored, ever … but a number of readers have written in with the question: What do I do if I’m bored out of my skull at work?
It gave me pause, to think about why I can’t recall ever getting that bored at work. And I realized: I...
1Password brings form-filling to the iPhone →
Back at Macworld we saw a sneak-peek from 1Password creater Dave Teare of the (then forthcoming) iPhone form-filling, username-storing 1Password bookmarklet for iPhone (pictured above at Moscone). Today sees a new build of 1Password pushed out for beta-loving users who want to take advantage of it. Of course, one main qualm people may have with this is “just how secure is my...
Tips on How to Apply for a Blog Job →
24 Hours ago I decided to use my own job board here at ProBlogger for the first time. I’ve used it before to advertise jobs for b5media - but never before to advertise for a blogger on one of the blogs that I manage.
The job I put up is here for a Digital Photography Blogger - someone to take a little of the load of producing posts for DPS off my shoulders to allow me to work on other projects.
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Apple - Find Out How - Photos →
Apple hints at forthcoming Aperture update →
Filed under: Software, Apple Professional, Apple
There’s been much debate on the interwebs on what lies in store for users of Aperture (Apple’s professional-level photo management software). I’m not suggesting that we mourn Aperture’s passing, but it has been a little neglected of late, and as someone who uses Aperture almost daily that makes me intrigued by Apple’s...
First Proof Apple Making Zero on AppleTV (And $$$... →
We went to teardown masters iSuppli for a fresh estimate to see how much of that $70 price chop on Apple TV was paid for by falling component costs over the last year. Surprising answer: Not that much. Apple really is subsidizing Apple TV, a significant shift in strategy.
MacBook Air gets the Macworld treatment →
Jason Snell over at the Mothership spent some quality time this past week with the tapeworm-thin MacBook Air (while the rest of us are obsessively tracking FedEx flights waiting for ours), and wrote up a thorough and painstakingly-honest monster review, analyzing and answering most users’ common questions and concerns. What’d he think? Don’t ask me, I didn’t actually read...
Dell shuts 140 retail kiosks in US →
Dell on Wednesday announced the shutdown of retail kiosks in malls throughout the U.S. as it adjusts its evolving product distribution strategy.
New Google Toolbox for Mac →
By Tom Van Lenten, Google Mac Team We on the Mac team love code. Nothing helps as much as some working sample code when you’re trying to get something done — well, maybe with the exception of some working code that you can use within your own projects. To that end, we’re happy to release Google Toolbox for Mac as a new open source project. This joins the Google Data APIs Object-C...
Little Snitch 2.0.2 Adds Ruleset Lock →
Objective Development released Little Snitch 2.0.2 on Wednesday. The new version adds a toolbar icon to lock and unlock the rulesets to prevent rules from being changed by unauthorized users, improved scrolling performance and more. …
Panic launches the Coda Developer Zone →
You must have heard of Panic Inc.’s Coda, the single window web development application that brings all the essential features required by a web developer under one beautifully designed and easily accessible user interface. We’ve covered it several times in the past. Among other things, it integrates a text and CSS editor, FTP client, Terminal, and virtual reference books, saving you...
designboost holding 'mini-boost' during stockholm... →
designboost held their first event this past fall is malmö, sweden. the organization is now collaborating with the stockholm furniture fair to hold a ‘mini-boost’. from february 6-10 they will be holding a number of event at the fair around the theme of sustainable design’. this will include lectures, panel discussion on the theme and an updated version of the exhibition that...
Office 2008 for Mac boasts inexcusably ugly... →
Joe Clark has posted a Flickr photoset of seven flaws in the latest version of Microsoft Office for Mac, which was released on 15 January of this year—four years after the previous version. Six of the flaws are somewhat insignificant, depending on your level of tolerance and love/hate relationship with Microsoft, but this one concerning the Clip Gallery is just inexcusable, in my humble opinion....
MacBook Air User's Guide is now available →
Right in line after the shipping notices emailed to pre-orderers of the notebook and the various knowledge base articles posted yesterday, Apple has now made the MacBook Air User’s Guide available as a free PDF download. The seventy-six pages document weighs in at 3.7MB. It is, of course, an Apple product, so the guide is minimalist and well-designed. It guides you through the anatomy of the...
NTFSready cleans up your filename act →
Filed under: Enterprise, Software, Switchers
One of my intermittent day-job responsibilities is to move big chunks of data (20 GB or more in a session) from the friendly, forgiving, name-your-files-whatever-you-want confines of a Mac OS X server onto cranky, finicky, no-funky-characters (but portable) NAS devices so that the data can travel with a production team to some far-away city. This...
MacBook Air Shipping; Apple TV Update Delayed →
Apple today announced that MacBook Air is now shipping.
Apple also announced that the new Apple TV software update, which lets you rent high definition movies directly from your widescreen TV, is not quite finished. Apple now plans to make the free software download available in another week or two.
The update to Apple TV repositions the device from being an iTunes peripheral into being an...
AppleTV update delayed, Macbook Air now shipping →
In what is seemingly turning into a tradition for the AppleTV, the software behind the device is delaying it once again. You may remember last year during the “Take One” phase of AppleTV that the device was slightly delayed after it’s Macworld unveiling, with the device shipping on the last day of February, and not arriving at customers homes until March, in spite of its “February” release date....
Launch: Campfire for iPhone →
Today we officially announce that Campfire has been optimized for the iPhone. Just visit your Campfire site with Safari on the iPhone and you’ll automatically see the iPhone optimized version. Note: To scroll back through the transcript you’ll need to use the two-finger scroll technique as illustrated below: We hope you find Campfire for iPhone useful! Special thanks to Sam for...
Assigning applications to Spaces is just such a... →
I admit to not having much use for one of Leopard’s big ticket features, Spaces. Sure, it sounds cool that you can have several desktops and organize yourself and switch between them with slick swipe animations but I find my messy desktop a lot more comfortable and homely. Plus, Spaces really limits the usefulness of Exposé and I’m so in love with that feature that I feel I’m...
The big computer company with no headquarters →
Lenovo CEO William Amelio, who above is holding one of its new MID computers during a presentation at the World Economic Forum in Davos, told me that Lenovo doesn’t have a headquarters.
I think that’s brilliant. Why? Because I’ve watched at NEC and Microsoft and other big companies as people who aren’t at the headquarters get marginalized and forgotten. Worse, many times great ideas get shot...
Dell to close its U.S. stores →
The company says it now has other ways to connect with customers, including its deal to sell PCs through retailer Best Buy, and no longer needs the 140 kiosks it had established across the country.
Top 10 BitTorrent Tools and Tricks [Lifehacker Top... →
BitTorrent is the go-to resource for downloading everything from music and movies to software and operating systems, but as its popularity continues to grow, so do the number of tools available for making the most of it. Some are must-haves, while others are a waste of time. Climb aboard for a look at 10 of the best BitTorrent utilities, tools, and resources for finding and managing your...
There's a cable cut again folks. →
I guess you’re all having the same problems as me with the connection. There’s a cable cut, according to Reuters it’s near Alexandria, and it’s affecting the region from India to Egypt to Saudi Arabia to the UAE… It will take “several days” to fix. Oh great. The reuters report is here.
Instruktionsfilmer från Apple →
Från och med nu finns ett trettiotal instruktionsfilmer att beskåda på Apples webbplats. Innehållet i filmerna varierar från hur man installerar Windows på Macen till hur man skapar en egen podcast.
One Year Ago Today: Spanning Sync Opens Its First... →
Exactly one year ago today, after a two month private beta period, Spanning Sync entered public beta. The response was literally overwhelming, forcing us to temporarily close the beta while we worked with our hosting provider to add server capacity. We had no idea how much capacity we might need, and since we were (and are) totally self-funded we didn’t have the money to simply lease...
One Year Ago Today: Spanning Sync Opens Its First... →
Exactly one year ago today, after a two month private beta period, Spanning Sync entered public beta. The response was literally overwhelming, forcing us to temporarily close the beta while we worked with our hosting provider to add server capacity. We had no idea how much capacity we might need, and since we were (and are) totally self-funded we didn’t have the money to simply lease racks...
Sporadic Internet →
It’s funny how you get used to having internet connection, isn’t it? During our first day or so here we were lucky enough that some neighbor had wide-open wifi available with broadband internet. That network has now disappeared. We have our Blackberries so we can do basic email and browsing through them which is great […]
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Here is the Key: 18 84 58 A6 D1 50 34 DF E3 86 F2... →
No, our servers are not getting nuts one more time. This key sent by anonymous users to our forum is the key used by Apple to sign some procedure in iPhone OS/installation.
We do not know how such information has been released on the internet; especially that Apple will likely modify it before releasing the SDK.
So why publishing it? Hereafter is our position:
While we can understand that Apple...
Fastmac ships replacement battery for 17-inch... →
Posted by Dennis Sellers FastMac has announced what it describes as a “high capacity, extended life battery upgrade” for Apple’s 17-inch MacBook Pro. The new 71 Whr battery, which is compatible with all models of the 17-inch MacBook Pro, uses Lithium-Polymer cells (with integrated charge indicator LEDs) that utilize TruePower technology.
The Ultimate Guide to iPhone Car Integration... →
Everything-iPod web site iLounge walks through several setups for integrating your iPhone with your car, from the barebones budget setup to the pricier “optimal” solution. Each setup comes with its own assortment of pros and cons, and the solution that works best for you will likely depend on a combination of your budget and your car stereo. In the end, though, you should end up with a...
Microsoft can't speak straight any more →
Here’s how Microsoft says, “SQL Server 2008 will be late:”
“We want to provide clarification on the roadmap for SQL Server 2008. Over the coming months, customers and partners can look forward to significant product milestones for SQL Server. Microsoft is excited to deliver a feature complete CTP during the Heroes Happen Here launch wave and a release candidate (RC) in Q2 calendar year...