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Where were you when Steve Jobs died?
I wouldn’t find out until later, but at the moment Steve Jobs was leaving this world I was in the Apple Store in Westfarms Mall, Farmington, CT helping a colleague buy a MacBook Air. I had just purchased a new MacBook Pro two days earlier (Oct. 3, 2011) and spent far too much time during my [...] Continue reading
iPhone’s Two Restore Modes
What isn’t commonly known, or documented, is that the iPhone has a couple restore modes. I’ll cover the typical restore mode and something called the “deep restore mode”. Continue reading
Posted in Apple, iOS, IPhone, IPhone 3GS, Smartphone
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Agile Groups in the Washington DC Metro Area
List of Agile professional organizations/groups in the Washington DC Metro Area Continue reading
Posted in Agile, Washington DC
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Getting started with Applescript
A quick link to a resource for learning AppleScript to automate repetitive tasks in OSX. Continue reading
Posted in AppleScript, mac, OSX
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Two Mail.app plug-ins all Exchange users need
If you are using Mail.app with with MS Exchange, you know the frustration of sending attachments and opening those dreaded winmail.dat files (the sender sent a MS Exchange email file as an attachment). Grr. To get around dealing with Microsoft’s refusal to comply with email standards, I recommend two mail.app plug-ins: Lokiware’s Attachment Tamer and [...] Continue reading
Posted in email, Gmail, ICal, mac, Mail, Microsoft, Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft Outlook, OSX, Portable Document Format
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Building Scalable Web-Based Applications
Scalable web-based applications has been getting a lot of air-play on social networks like Twitter lately, mostly because Twitter has been overcome by scability issues and the service unreliable. Having an unreliable internet service is embarassing and unacceptable. There is no better way to kill your brand image than to have your viral social media strategy fall flat on its face in front of the whole “instant on” world.
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Building Scalable Web-Based Applications
Scalable web-based applications has been getting a lot of air-play on social networks like Twitter lately, mostly because Twitter has been overcome by scability issues and the service unreliable. Having an unreliable internet service is embarassing and unacceptable. There is no better way to kill your brand image than to have your viral social media strategy fall flat on its face in front of the whole “instant on” world.
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4 Hour Body Mindhack for Ice Cream Cravings
I just figured out a very obvious but probably not popular mindhack for getting through the week on the slow-carb diet. I love ice cream. Every night before going to sleep I love to have a big bowl of the stuff. Since I am glucose sensitive, the bowl usually put me in a nice sugar-coma… [...] Continue reading
Is it your job or your craft?
Image via Wikipedia There is a lot of talk about the number of people that are unemployed. Over the course of this recession the United States has lost some 10 Million jobs. These jobs simply went away. They weren’t outsourced to another country. They didn’t transition to another type of role. They simply went away [...] Continue reading
Sequel Pro — MySQL database management app for Mac OS X
If you are looking for a MySQL admin tool that isn’t phpMyAdmin, Sequel Pro may just fit the bill. A community project that in the process of expanding beyond MySQL to other DBMSs like PostgresSQL, MS SQL Server, it looks like it has a lot of potential… Continue reading
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