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Quicky: Access Control Using Your Phone

For the past two weeks I’ve used Airlock to automagically lock my Mac Pro’s and MacBook Pro’s screens as soon as I and my iPhone are not in the room anymore.
It’s a nice way of ensuring that nobody will read what’s on your screen or does stupid things using your Facebook or XMPP accounts—at [...]

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iPad — The Executive Summary

January again had something new for us Apple addicted fanboys. There was a “Stevenote” in which Apple revealed the iPad—a touchscreen tablet device running iPhone OS.
Some call it a big brother to iPod touch and iPhone—the smartphone we ♥ so much. Taptivate, an iPhone development house, feels the need to re-define Rev⋅o⋅lu⋅tion (noun), but didn’t [...]

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Readernaut

I was surprised to see no results show up for the term “Readernaut” when I put it into my blog’s search earlier today. I like the service a lot and couldn’t believe I hadn’t recommended it yet.

So, without further ado, here’s what it allows you to do:
Share your reading experience by writing notes, tracking [...]

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A small step to lessen fuel consumption

I spent the past week in Florida—on short notice, a client called me to come along with him to a conference in the Tampa/Clearwater area. For the rides between airport, hotel and the conference center we rented a mid-size SUV (a Jeep Patriot, to be precise). When the conference was over, we took a day [...]

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I just joined Project 52

I don’t believe in New Year’s pledges. Don’t get me wrong, it’s nice to set oneself a goal and work towards it, but most New Year’s pledges don’t work like this—in reality, they’re just the fancy topping for a New Year’s party, but worth nothing a few days into the year.
So let’s not call [...]

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Gowalla

One of the first location-based apps on my iPhone was Brightkite. I liked the idea of leaving a note at places—but Brightkite quickly got boring and I didn’t check in often.

Gowalla makes checking in everywhere and sharing places fun. It motivates its users by rewarding them with stamps on their passports and items in [...]

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Upgrading Macintosh HD to RAID 0

About a week ago, I removed my Apple Refurb Western Digital 500GB HD (5400rpm) from the Mac Pro and replaced it with a striped array of two Samsung 1TB disks, each with 7200rpm.
The HD has been the bottleneck with my machine, it just had to be faster—so I didn’t really benchmark it. I have [...]

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Misunderstanding Markup: XHTML, HTML5—and my lecturers

A few days ago, Smashing Magazine posted a comic strip featuring Jeremy Keith explaining the misunderstandings happening around the terms HTML, HTML 4, HTML 5, XHTML, XHTML 1.1 and XHTML2.
I finally got around to reading it this afternoon—its result: I e-mailed three of my lecturers concerning their statements to related topics.
“JavaScript is a [...]

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My Mac Setup on ShawnBlanc.net

Shawn included my Mac setup in a sweet series of desks with Apple computers on them.
Thanks Shawn!
All others, go to Shawn’s blog and subscribe to his RSS feed. He’s writing great reviews over there, you sure don’t want to miss out on this! Oh, and follow @shawnblanc on Twitter for some great insights (Shawn is [...]

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A Quick Thought: Apple’s AppStore

I’m not tempted to browse through the AppStore. Not at all. 
I regularly browse iTunes, to check out the latest songs. I’m an active window shopper in the music section.
But my general process of discovery in terms of new apps for my iPhone doesn’t look like “Open AppStore, search for something, check descriptions, buy an application”—I [...]