iPhone icons

March 3rd, 2010 § 0

A tweet this morning from Jon Tan spurred me to put together a “tool” of sorts for previewing application icons directly on an iPhone.

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Email Aliases

December 30th, 2009 § 9

Two days ago I learned that using email aliases in Apple Mail is rather straightforward.

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SiteSprint II

December 25th, 2009 § 2

December 15 marked the conclusion of SiteSprint II.

I participated with my homepage, AbrahamVegh.com.

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You don’t need Mac OS X’s single-application mode

October 20th, 2009 § 2

There’s been some chatter on the interwebs recently about the original single-application functionality of Mac OS X being still hidden inside the operating system, and easy to enable with a simple Terminal command.

Guess what? All those people who originally “widely reviled” the “feature”? They were right!

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Safari’s new trick

September 13th, 2009 § 0

The iPhone (and iPod touch) software update released on September 9th, version 3.1, added some new features and bug fixes.

I was also happy to find that on top of all the other enhancements in 3.1, Safari, the web browser on the iPhone, learned one small new trick.

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Improvements I’d like to see in the next iPod

September 2nd, 2009 § 0

The rumors have been confirmed: Apple will be letting loose with the next iteration of its iPod line come September 9th. » Read the rest of this entry «

Stupid mistakes: Remember to check the obvious

July 30th, 2009 § 1

On Wednesday I received a call from someone with whom I do business on a regular basis. He was calling to report that something I had coded for him several weeks ago was no longer functioning, and he could not understand why.

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What drives my digital life

July 21st, 2009 § 0

Yesterday I published the first iteration of a quite aptly-titled list: Recommended

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Misleading benchmarks

June 23rd, 2009 § 0

I came across a post on the Tap Tap Tap blog yesterday, in which John Casasanta marvels about the near four-fold increase in raw available power on the new iPhone 3G S, versus the 3G model.

It is rather startling to see the ease with which the blogger media and the iPhone community have accepted these claims as absolute truths. The iPhone 3GS is far more powerful than the 3G — without a doubt. But the benchmark we need to be looking at is the comparison between the iPod touch and the 3GS.

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Theme, permalink change (updated)

June 14th, 2009 § 0

I’ve changed themes again, this time to LightWord.

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