EntriesI had everything installed, and decided I wanted to look at the crud in my Applications menu with a view to removing it. I started with Adobe Stock Photos.
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27 August 2008 | No Comments
The Adobe Install Experience, part 2
27 August 2008 | No Comments
The Adobe Install Experience, part 1
I recently re-installed Abobe CS3 from scratch. Whether the experience was typical or not I leave to you to decide. Here’s an event-by-event description.
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14 August 2008 | No Comments
NSString -characterAtIndex:
I posit that there is no such thing; that is to say, characterAtIndex: will return a unichar value that might or might not represent the encoding of a character.
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9 August 2008 | No Comments
StandardKeyBinding.dict and private API
Evidently this is not a problem for most developers, but I have run into a snag caused by AppKit’s failure to declare methods that are specified in /System/Library/Frameworks/AppKit.framework/Resources/StandardKeyBinding.dict.
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20 July 2008 | No Comments
Cornwall pics
I finally got around to looking at our Cornwall photos.
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11 July 2008 | No Comments
My favorite iPhone 2.0 feature
I absolutely love TedTalks. They’re perfect for viewing on the iPhone, and easy to obtain as podcasts. But the old iPhone treated them as audio files if you tried to move them into a playlist. You had to sync all the podcast episodes, and they can accumulate very quickly.
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28 June 2008 | No Comments
More Paris
We visited the Musée d’Orsay, home of the Impressionist paintings.
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25 June 2008 | No Comments
Stockholm Pics
Some photos of Stockholm and the voyage back into the Baltic.
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Removing an orphan file from iPhone, 2 February 2012:
Maybe it’s easier to locate the file inside the backup and replacing it with a zero length file of the same name ?
A better iPad keyboard, 8 August 2011:
Brilliant idea. the ipad keyboard makes me regret not getting an android tablet.
Take Huckleberry Finn, for example, 20 June 2011:
“The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” was first published in England in 1984 by Chatto & Windus, Piccadilly!
England had better copyright laws. Book was published in the USA in 1985.
A better iPad keyboard, 28 May 2011:
This is a very cool idea! Something that would come straight out of Apple. I wonder if this concept is already patented? If so, and not by Apple, I could see why they haven’t already incorporated it into the iPad. It might also have to do with remaining universal within the iOS among pods, phones, and pads.
Very cool idea.
A better iPad keyboard, 10 May 2011:
This is brilliant. I just have one suggestion to make – a tab key!
Take Huckleberry Finn, for example, 18 April 2011:
It was easy to imagine that what you have described was the case, but to have it documented so authoritatively is quite stunning. For instance, it hadn’t occurred to me that so many ePublishers would attempt to sell content copied from Project Gutenberg, which is legal, but only by paying a royalty to Project Gutenberg.
It’s also interesting to see that there are so many eBook vendors and to note that this is just within the iBook Store. At the same time, I’m heartened to see that one edition is actually quite well ePublished. Now the question is, how did they do it?!
A better iPad keyboard, 27 June 2010:
The idea of a “flickeyboard” sounds great, but I have to say it still leaves me a bit hesitant. I know that the iPad will never be a true computer replacement, at least as far as typing is concerned, but typing is one of the things I do a lot of, and I can’t help but think that having to learn a “new” way of typing would put me off…