Category Archives: Apple

Android Dalvik VM performance is a threat to the iPhone

One of the peculiarities of Apple is that they have set themselves down a path where every Apple developer needs to learn Objective-C (and C/C++) to build applications for their platform.  The biggest characteristic of Objective-C vs Java is dynamic … Continue reading

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Build your own mail analyzer for Mac Mail.app

You’ve probably read about things like Xoopit and Xobni for analyzing both online mail and your outlook mail. As it turns out, Apple has done something great in this regard that I think has been mostly overlooked. Mail.app stores all … Continue reading

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Time Machine vs. ZFS + rsync

Update: I actually got the fslogger thing at the end of this entry working so I can do incremental backups. Not really a product yet but it isn’t hard to do. Here is the super rough version of it. I … Continue reading

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Macworld 2008 predictions

UPDATE 1/13/08: This looks like confirmation of a new ultralight portable with some sort of wireless connectivity. Might as well put up my predictions for what will be announced at Macworld this year. I think it will be a good … Continue reading

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Applescript is pretty cool

Applescript is pretty cool Continue reading

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