Friday, January 28, 2011

Great product -



Dolly Drive syncs Time Machine to the cloud, creates bootable backup 

By Dave Caolo posted Jan 28, 2011 7:00PM 

We're finding many useful solutions here at Macworld Expo, and among them isDolly Drive. This new solution (they just launched this week) offers encrypted Time Machine sync to the cloud and even create a bootable version of the local drive you've been using for Time Machine thus far. I spoke with Anthony about the product, how it works and what the future holds.




Thursday, January 27, 2011

3 Free Donut Games -



You owe it to yourself to go get your free copies of these Donut Games. I'm not sure how long they are free, so go now.

Review:


Pad alphabet apps 

We look at three iOS App Store offerings that take very different approaches to using the iPad to help kids master their ABCs.

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

IE Performance Tip: avoid repeating tags


FTA:
So, using the CSS to style an entry with an appropriate image, instead of using an image tag gives us a 67% speed increase in IE's rendering time on the initial download, and a 77% increase in rendering time on refresh.

Reduced time to render from 16.77 seconds to 5.6 seconds
and reduced time to reload from 24.5 seconds to 5.6 seconds 

Pretty impressive and it costs zippy...

Read the full article:
http://www.webperformance.com/load_testing/blog/2011/01/ie-performance-tip-avoid-repeating-img-tags/

Saturday, January 22, 2011

Simple. Cheap. Brilliant.


Why rubber-banding my power brick is, like, the smartest thing I've ever done [Hacks] 

#hacks There were 15 of us clustered around a not-large-enough table at CES, almost all plugged into identical power adapters. I put a rubber band around mine to keep from mixing it up with somebody else's. Turns out, I'm a genius. More » ...

Cool idea.


TestFlightApp.com - Beta Test iPhone Apps

Test Flight is all an iOS developer could ever need to ensure he is releasing an app that people will find practical (and be willing to pay good money for, too). You see, Test Flight offers an over-the-air platform for letting users try applications out. In just a couple of minutes, a developer can have his app instantly accessible for all to try, and even create different versions of the same app, making each accessible to separate groups of ...

Sweet!


Open sourcerers port media centre to iOS 

XBMC on Apple TV 2, iPad, iPhone

Open source media centre front end XBMC will now run on the iOS-based second-generation Apple TV. And the iPad. And the iPhone 4.…

Friday, January 21, 2011

Ten Billion Apps Yet?

 The ten billionth app will be downloaded from the App Store in about




And “It Begins” –


The First Verizon iPhone 4 Commercial Hits the Web [Video] 

In case you are still skeptic about it, the Verizon iPhone is very real, and it is coming on 10th February 2011. Video after the break.

To our millions of customers, who never stopped believing this day would come… ...

Every web developer should try this.


iPhone-Simulator.com - Test iPhone Sites & Apps 

As its name suggests, this is a new testing platform that will let you figure out how successfully (or not) any site that you have built is rendered on iPhones. You will get to know about any conflictive element, and fix it before it causes any damage to your ...

Thursday, January 20, 2011

Sweet! Photobooth on iPad!


Icons in iOS 4.3 Beta 'Confirm' Dual-Camera iPad 2

A screenshot inside the latest iOS 4.3 beta from Apple gives further evidence that there will be both front and rear-facing cameras in the iPad 2.



Monday, January 17, 2011

Nope. Not creepy at all...


An anonymous reader writes "Do you really want third-party app developers on Facebook to be able to access your mobile phone number and home address? Facebook has announced that developers of Facebook apps can now gather the personal contact information from their users. Security firm Sophos describes it as 'a move that could herald a new level of danger for Facebook users' and advises users to remove their home address and phone numbers from the network ...


Saturday, January 15, 2011

Google Commits to

 Google has announced that it has made some changes to its service level agreement (SLA) for Google Apps, to reduce the possibility that users will experience any downtime. The company says it has eliminated maintenance windows from the SLA, so Google will never plan for users to be down when they're upgrading services or maintaining their systems.  

"People expect email to be as reliable as their phone's dial tone, and our goal is to deliver that kind of always-on availability with our applications," says Matthew Glotzbach, Google's Enterprise Product Management Director. "Going forward, all downtime will be counted and applied towards the customer's SLA." 

Google has also made changes to the SLA so that any intermittent downtime is counted. "Previously, a period of less than ten minutes was not included," explains Glotzbach. "We believe any instance that causes our users to experience downtime should be avoided -- period." 



Friday, January 14, 2011

SBInet gets killed. At only $18 Million per mile, it seemed like such a bargain.


The Department of Homeland Security is ending the Secure Border Initiative-Net (SBInet) Program, the project to build an electronic fence along the nation's southwest border.

DHS will instead implement a new strategy tailored to each region's border terrain and population, said DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano in a statement Friday.





These are available at my grocer. Need to try them - How to Cut and Prepare Prickly Pears

 I have had prickly pear juice, but I haven't tried the fruit whole. I need to remedy this.
http://simplyrecipes.com/recipes/how_to_cut_and_prepare_prickly_pears/

Thursday, January 13, 2011