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The UNIX wars are over, and Leopard won.
Wednesday October 17, 2007 3:34AM
Well, you could argue that any one of the OS X 'Big Cats' was the winner, simply because Apple has made a user-friendly UNIX system that outperforms most, if not all, other operating systems. Leopard is now fully POSIX conforming… read moreTuesday June 12, 2007 7:30AM
So is Apple saying "the network is the computer?" It sure seems so. WebKit, the guts of Safari, is open to developers, it lives on the iPhone and now on Windows. Apple is welcoming nearly anyone to hack it and… read moreMicrosoft's Surface - have they licensed multi-touch?
Wednesday May 30, 2007 4:44AM
Interesting new technology coming from Microsoft called "Surface". I see some fairly obvious parallels with the iPhone and multi-touch specifically. Does this mean that Apple is licensing technology to Microsoft? Because presumably multi-touch is patented and owned by Apple.Apple opening up more of the black box
Wednesday May 23, 2007 7:07PM
A new project at MacForge called BridgeSupport aims to make developing in languages other than Objective-C on Apple's OS X easier. Objective-C is considered an excellent language and there is no reason not to develop in it but if you… read moreDeveloping with Camel Bones - Perl, Cocoa, OS X goodness
Wednesday May 09, 2007 4:33AM
I have been working on a series of articles for the MacDevCenter about alternative windowing systems for Mac OS X and I haven't been blogging recently. I am kind of hiding out from my editor since I am a little… read moreWednesday April 25, 2007 4:28AM
Browsers are everywhere and nowhere, they are getting built into applications so that soon one will not need a stand-alone browser, you can just use whichever app you have at hand or your file browser. The most recent example is… read moreWednesday April 04, 2007 1:22AM
I blogged the other day about how I couldn't get iTunes to play some of my music. I connected this with the EU's "statement of objection" regarding "territorial restrictions." I wanted Steve Jobs to persuade the record companies that the… read moreHey Steve! You're not done yet!
Tuesday April 03, 2007 3:08AM
His Steveness spun his usual magic yesterday supplying substance where there only was talk. Along with EMI, as everyone by now knows, Apple will be selling DRM-free music. Yay! Well done Apple. But we still have some problems, namely that… read moreApple failing to understand open source
Thursday March 22, 2007 4:35AM
Apple is failing in Open Source and Free Software. It fails to understand the movement, its principles, and how to leverage it to make money. This would not be such an issue if Apple had not based their operating system… read moreOpen letter to Mark Shuttleworth
Tuesday March 06, 2007 6:27AM
Dear Mr. Shuttleworth, Get into the hardware business. I saw you speak in 2004 in Gothenburg Sweden at the EuroPython conference, you gave the keynote (excellent speech) and told the audience about your upcoming project. It was a linux distribution… read morePatents cut both ways for Microsoft
Monday February 26, 2007 10:29AM
If I held Microsoft stock (which I don't) I would be furious. Here is Steve Balmer focusing on Linux, making the tired claim that there is so-called Intellectual Property in Linux that violates patents held by Microsoft. Meanwhile Microsoft gets… read moreNeed a (free) replacement for Word? Try Abiword
Monday February 26, 2007 5:51AM
Recently I received the same question from two different people; "What is a good replacement for Word on my Mac?" My brother Nathaniel asked me this when his version of Word stopped working on his new Mac. Microsoft apparently is… read moreSkype sniping - Open up Skype, your reputation needs it
Wednesday February 14, 2007 6:11AM
I mostly use linux to get my work done, but occasionally I am very glad that my network has Macs on it. It means I can easily buy music from iTunes or use Skype for example. I thought I would… read moreApple to EMI: "You first!" EMI to Apple: "Ok."
Friday February 09, 2007 8:06AM
Steve Jobs says its the Major's fault that music, including music from iTunes, has DRM on it. The Majors say it is Apple's FairPlay that is the problem. Now we may be able to find out. Jobs has been forced… read moreEuropean regulators breathe down Apple's neck
Sunday January 28, 2007 8:33AM
A host of European countries are concerned about iTunes music downloads and how they only play on the iPod. The latest to speak up is Holland where the Dutch authorities have said; "What we want from Apple is that they… read more
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