From the monthly archives:

February 2006

As I talked about earlier, today was the Apple special, invite-only event. They announced the Intel Mac Mini with two options for the processor, single or dual core. The Core Duo runs at 1.67GHz while the single core, Core Solo, model runs at 1.5GHz and comes with 512MB. Both models sport DDR2 PC-5300 RAM and can hold up to 2GB’s, up from the older mini’s 1GB. It seems as though there are only 2 models, starting at $599 and $799, all shipping with iLife ‘06 and an upgraded Front Row. They also announced an iPod Hi-Fi, which is some sort of boom box with twin speakers and a subwoofer [click to continue…]

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What’s to Come

February 26, 2006 · 12 comments

Most bloggers don’t do this, but I’m not most bloggers. Here’s what I have planned for the near future (after my CS midterm tuesday and maybe some other school obstacles) for this blog… I will be taking a look at Box.net’s new online filesharing service, which combines Web 2.0 (things like lightbox coding as featured in 30Boxes‘ calendar) and online storage. You can beat me to it and signup for an account with [click to continue…]

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Many of you have taken my RoundCube installation guide to heart despite some of the RoundCube alpha’s problems and shortcomings. RoundCube is a revolutionary webmail client, better than anything like Squirrel Mail, featuring a very lightweight codebase and an AJAX-ified interface. However, Thomas Bruederli of RoundCube has recently announced the release of RoundCube v0.1-beta. I have yet to update my RoundCube install [click to continue…]

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Flickr is everyone’s favorite online photo-sharing service. It may be beta, but it has more than enough features to rival many other photo-sharing services in their final state. One of these features is groups, which allow you to share photos and discussions with people. Dozens of groups are made everyday, but only a few can survive. Today we’ll explore creating a flickr group that can grab anyone’s attention and become a thriving virtual destination. [click to continue…]

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My Other Blog

February 23, 2006 · 3 comments

I’ve setup a WordPress.com blog where I talk about personal stuff or just things I can’t find a place for on a technology blog. Things like exotic cars I’ve seen that day will find a home on stammy.wordpress.com. Stammy is my unofficial nickname as first given to me by Paul Scrivens, CEO of 9rules. Anyways, check that out if you want to know what I do or think about in my down time.

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The Apple Special Event

February 23, 2006

I was hesitant about blogging about this, as seemingly everyone has already heard that Apple will be holding a special event on February 28th. I thought I would take a different stance and ask everyone what they think Apple will unveil at this event. My prediction includes a 13.3″ iBook (named simply MacBook [...]

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New Technorati Feature: Favorites

February 21, 2006

Everyone’s favorite blog tracking, ranking and tag search engine service, Technorati, has just added a new feature to their services list. Favorites lets you create a publicly viewable list of your favorite bloggers, making it incredibly easy to keep track of their content. Each person is allowed to store up to 50 favorites [...]

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New Mac OS X Flaw: ZIP Shell Script Execution

February 21, 2006

Just today, it was reported on Secunia that an extremely critical OS X flaw has been discovered. The problem arises from the way OS X handles the __MACOSX folder in ZIP-compressed archives. This problem exists even in the most updated Mac system running OS X 10.4.5. All I can say right [...]

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Using coComment

February 21, 2006

Kristin has a nice intro to using the new coComment service, that lets you track all of the comments you make on blogs. The reason I like coComment so much is that it is a service that anyone can use it. You don’t have to be a blogger – just someone that comments [...]

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Flock Browser Gets an Update

February 20, 2006

My good friends over at Flock HQ have updated the developer preview of their Firefox-based browser to version 0.5.11. I’ve talked about Flock several times in the past, including my comprehensive review. For those of you that have never heard of Flock, it’s a browser aimed at Web 2.0 gurus and bloggers. [...]

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Review: Transmit 3.5

February 18, 2006

If you are a mac user with any need for an FTP application, you have no doubt heard of Panic’s Transmit. Transmit has won several awards and most recently an Apple Design Award for using Tiger technology the most. Things like dashboard integration with a simple drag and drop widget, local smart folders, [...]

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10 Reasons to Buy Windows Vista

February 17, 2006

Michael Desmond has posted a list of reasons why you should invest in Microsoft’s upcoming Windows Vista operating system. As expected, most of the reasons are already present or better in the current version of Apple’s operating system. Other things like “peer-to-peer collaboration” are doomed similar to the remote help feature in Windows [...]

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Link Mania

February 16, 2006

I’ve been drenched with school work recently – a paper on eBooks, a VoiceXML project, a few tests, and a large C programming assignment to close off the week. I’m going to list some of the more interesting articles I’ve passed on by during the past few days. First, I heard that the [...]

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Apple Updates MacBook Pros

February 14, 2006

Most people haven’t even received their MacBook Pro orders when Apple updated the high-end MacBook Pro specification. Now, two base models sport a 1.83GHz and 2.0GHz Intel Core Duo processors, respectively. However, there is a BTO option for an impressive 2.16GHz Core Duo chip for an additional $300 on the high-end model. [...]

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Interview

February 14, 2006

Stuart Andrews from DevDawn.com has conducted a comprehensive interview with me. Check it out and find out some things you might not have known about your favorite blogger.

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