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10 Ways The Nokia N800 Is Better Than Apple’s iPhone

Looking for the N900? Find out how it’s also better than the iPhone! New article here.
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All the buzz these days is about the Apple iPhone (not to be confused with the Linksys iPhone). I have to admit, the iPhone is pretty cool, and I was really excited about it [...]

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New Browser Stats

Starry Hope Readers Are Smart
One of the smartest things you can do to protect yourself online these days is to simply not use Internet Explorer. The thing is so full of holes that using it is just asking for trouble. The December 17, 2006 stats release from W3 Counter shows world-wide usage of [...]

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Parallels vs CrossOver Prizefight

The past few days have been full of announcements in the area of running Windows applications on your Intel Mac. First, Parallels released a new beta version of their virtual machine, then VMware released a public beta of their virtual machine. Today, CodeWeavers made release candidate 1 of CrossOver Mac, their Windows compatibility [...]

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Parallels Screencast

Parallels Desktop for Mac Update Beta2 (Build 3094) was released today. Here’s a screencast that shows off some of my favorite features.

Place Windows applications on your Mac desktop or in your application dock. Just click to launch them directly from OS X!
Use Command+tab to cycle through Windows and Mac applications simultaneously, and hide [...]

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10 Great OS X Application Icons

The latest generation of Mac applications have really focused on the way an application looks. Developers are creating beautiful user interfaces and slick looking icons that make their apps more pleasing to look at. I appreciate the time and energy that people have put into making their apps look great.
Here’s a [...]

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‘Tis The Season For … Ruby!

The guys over at Ruby Inside are putting together a
Ruby Advent Calendar.  The Calendar features a new article about Ruby for each day of Advent.

Following the trend, Err the Blog has put together their own Advent Calendar that’s packed full of useful Rails tips (focusing mostly on ActiveSupport).  There are some great gems in there!

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KeyFixer – Fix Your OS X Home and End Keys

KeyFixer – Fix Your OS X Home and End Keys

Update: There is now a version of KeyFixer for Firefox. Check it out.
A few months ago, I wrote a short article about how to fix the “home” and “end” keys in OS X. I published a step-by-step guide to adding your own custom key bindings via the command line. Many people found [...]

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Save Bandwidth and Speed Up Your Site With Apache 2 and mod_deflate

If you’re a website operator or up-and-coming blogger, you may have noticed your bandwidth bills growing larger each month. Fortunately, there’s a very easy way to transparently compress your pages and save bandwidth and download time for you and your visitors. Version 2 of the Apache web server features a module called “mod_deflate”, [...]

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Blake Ross of Firefox Fame Has a New Project: Parakey

IEEE Spectrum has a great 4-page article about a new project from Blake Ross.  His idea seems very similar to Adobe’s Apollo project.  It seems that cross-platform, “sometimes connected” web/desktop applications are “coming things“.  The article is a little long, but a very interesting read.
Read more: IEEE Spectrum: The Firefox Kid

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Using Backpack Offline with PackRat – Screencast

This is the first of (hopefully) many screencasts I hope to bring you over the coming months. Today’s screencasat is about how to use your Backpack account offline on your Mac with a new program called PackRat.

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