Save As will overwrite the original file in OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion Just read this in Hacker News. Gezz.. I think I will have to keep a much closer look at OS X 10.8. Heck, I have not even written about the battery issues yet. Ok, check this out…. OS X Lion 10.7 removed the Save As command; see Save As Command Forces Multi-Step Workaround, Data Destruction.… Read More
Best way to fix the weak MagSafe 2 power adapter on the new Mac, get an old adapter When I started messing around with a new MacBook Pro I was pretty impressed with it. Light, fast and a much better user experience then some of my less powerful predecessors. However there was one thing that bugged me. The power connector kept coming off. Now I’m pretty rough on my machines so I figured… Read More
The Best Gaming VR headset, HMD, ever. or at least so far.. The Oculus This is a kickstarter project. That means its not available to the general consumer market yet, but if you are not afraid of a little DYI, its a pretty good deal with pretty good specs. I used the VFX1 back in the day when I was building VR worlds using VRML and the Quake 1… Read More
Chick-fil-A PR fail starts to approach Epic levels. And its not over yet. Seems like every year is here is some sort of PR fail or chick-fli-al that goes beyond a simple slip up to epic proportions. And looks like we are approaching Critical Fail with Chick-fil-A ‘s ever expanding controversy over its stance on gay marriage. What started out as a protest against Chick-fil-A giving money to… Read More
The First Vets In Tech ViT event July 31 ‘VETS IN TECH’ PROGRAM TO LAUNCH IN SAN FRANCISCO Groundbreaking Initiative is the First to Connect Veterans With Technology Careers Many of you know this is something I support and have been deeply involved with. We have waves of new vets coming back from overseas to a job market that is already pretty tight. However,… Read More
HTML5, CSS3, UX/UI and Mobile Design; oh my! “CASCADE SF’s first “Innovators of the Web Conference” Yes, this fine Sat I’m at the Adobe building in SF watching presentations on the intersection of design and programming. The focus of the talks today are line by line examples of how to break through the limits of design for the web with new cutting edge… Read More
The Peer Reviewed version of the Numbers behind kickstart with info graphic Jeanne Pi sent me this via email just a bit ago. I remember reading her first post thinking the numbers seemed a bit unfounded. I know know this because I wrote a kickstarter scraper and thus see a lot of flow day to day. Well Jeanne hear the same from other people and decided to… Read More
How to opt out of Apple iOS advertizing.. Instructions from Apple. I have not really encounter this, at least yet, so I’m not bothered to do this, but then again, perhaps I do not use the type of applications that would flood me with iOS Apple ads. If you are, Apple has provided a way for you to opt out. Here are the steps and links..… Read More
Epic driving on the Streets of San Francisco from DC SHOES: KEN BLOCK’S GYMKHANA FIVE I have been living in the Bay Area since 92 when I left England and the Air Force to study Architecture at UC Berkeley. As such, I know the streets if San Francisco pretty well now. All the years I have driven (and motorcycled) in SF, I have always wished I could punch it a… Read More
SimCity social… I did not like, but that does not mean it’s bad It only took 10 min of trying SimCity Social to realize this is not for me. Perhaps because I’m a pretty hard core fan of the original game, this pop version is simply a turn off. Perhaps if I was 8 years old… Naw, not even then. Thats pretty harsh I know, but that just… Read More
Pokemon battery indicator for your iphone. just because. And something for Android Thats right. You can get your very one Pokemon battery level indicator for your iphone? Why? Really, you have ask your self that? Because Pokemon are the bomb man! heh.. the bomb. How old is that saying? Anyway, I figured I would post a link to where you can download the pokemon battery theme. Found… Read More
They are taking iGoogle away. Do not want! I rely on iGoogle. Its my default page. I love it because its simple, clean, fast. Have my RSS feeds, mail, comics and weather. Its great. And now Google is going to kill it end of next year. Damn. So why is Google doing this? Not to make friends thats for sure. On the google… Read More
How to set Chrome as your default browser on your iOS iphone ipad I installed Chrome over the weekend. It seems ok enough although a bit slow. However, I found that I had to remember to use it. So I decided to really commit to it and set it as my default browser, through jailbreak of course. First off its not fast despite what they say. In fact,… Read More
Preview of the new Microsoft site. Metro with dynamic media response Well this is a treat. Via reddit I checked out a preview of the new Microsoft.com preview website. Its pretty clear they are all in with Metro, and also all in with 1 view from many devices as demonstrated by the use of dynamic media response. {Update} Seems they have this redirecting now. Shame. The… Read More
5 Years of the iPhone. Reflection of a day 1 user and jailbreaker I was one of the first people to get the first iphone. The funny thing is, I really did not want it. I was attending a conference that got a special deal to buy the first batch of phones. $600. Ug. I was going to sell it after the conference, only to have the price… Read More
Today is back to the future day. And still no skateboard IT’S FUTURE DAY! For those that do not remember, or did not see the movie back to the future, Doc set his DeLorean to a future day. And that is today! What do we do with this news?? No idea. {UPDATE} Just read in Mashable Turns out this is a hoax. The actual date —… Read More
Google Now to compete with Siri, and it might be better through prediction This is something I have been expecting.. A simply AI system that learns from your behavior to make voice interaction smarter. Think of it as autocorrect for your SaaS personal assistant. If you tend to call your SO on the way home from work often, then the next to time you say; call so and… Read More
As bad as it looks for Facebook, its much worse for Zynga Its pretty well know that Facebooks stock dropped pretty low after its first launched. However, in the last few weeks, it has been crawling back from its low of $26.50 a share closing today at $33.10. Once cannot say the same for Zynga. After today’s announcements of new games and initiatives, Zynga stock actually dropped… Read More
Google learn to watch youtube. See’s a bunch of cats. Ready for Reddit! Google created the largest neural networks for machine learning by connecting 16,000 computer processors. And what did they do with all this power? Watch videos of course. Presented with 10 million digital images found in YouTube videos, what did Google’s brain do? What millions of humans do with YouTube: looked for cats. From the NYT… Read More
Classic Warlords game ported to ipad iphone. And they kept the 8 bit looks. Yet another port. The old 90’s game Warlords by Infinite Interactive Pty, Ltd. for PC, Mac and Amiga has been ported to iOS. Fun. Same game play, join the war to conquer Illuria in this classic fantasy strategy game. Choose any combination of up to eight humans and AI players to be battled for control… Read More