June 2009
5 posts
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Apple, Others To Have Standard Phone Charger
Reuters, via Mac Rumors:
Ten top mobile phone manufacturers, including Apple, have agreed to adopt the Micro-USB connector standard for smartphone chargers in the European Union. The shift, planned to begin next year, will allow smartphones from the companies, which control 90% of the market, to use the same charging cables.
I don’t know how Apple is going to make this happen. At first,...
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How To Tell If A Mac App Is Carbon Or Cocoa
It’s hardly an exact science, but there’s an easy way to tell if an application on the Mac is built with Carbon or Cocoa:
If, when your application takes a while to load something, the cursor turns into the old Mac watch then the app is probably a Carbon app. If the beach ball comes up, it’s probably Cocoa.
Of course, there may be exceptions, but this is just a rule of thumb.
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Firefox 3.5 Coming June 30
Webmonkey:
Mozilla will release the next major version of Firefox on Tuesday, June 30, Webmonkey has learned. Mozilla confirmed the news Friday afternoon.
Firefox 3.5 is the first major revision of the popular open-source browser since version 3 landed a little over a year ago, in June of 2008. It features a faster rendering engine, stability enhancements and a new JavaScript engine that boosts...
First Post, Directions
I don’t know what I want to do with this blog. Often, I’ll read an article or something and want to pass it along to people and say something about it. Until now, I’ve been doing that on Twitter, but by the time you put the URL in, you’ve got about 125 or so characters to make a point. Most of the time, I’m all for brevity (in fact, I usually spell it...