Posts tagged: computing
To corral Office to just some future Microsoft tablet would be a mistake. That is, essentially, betting Office’s future relevance on the possibility that Microsoft will become a dominant player in future mobile computing. Instead, what would happen is that the millions of iOS and Android users will snap out of the Office trance and move on. Once they realize they don’t need office on their tablets, its utility on their desktops will also be questioned. Ubiquity lost.
Yeps. Microsoft, take your time…
What quickly become evident to me was, that there exists no perfect blogging platform. Eventually I went with Jekyll, after having tried and dismissed several (more popular and mainstream) solutions. In this post I will document the considerations that lead me to pick Jekyll, how I got Jekyll up and running exactly the way I wanted, and why you should or should not do as I did.
A great post on his consideration for a new Blog engine—Jekyll—and some comments about the system, should you be interested in adopting it.
In fact, after reading this post, I’m motivated to transition my blog to a simpler HTML static site. This will allow me to host the blog onto alternative hosts and have it mirrored with little difficulty or inconsistency.
These pages show 8 different sorting algorithms on 4 different initial conditions.
Quite a fantastic visual resource if you’re interested in sorting algorithms.
Lion is any measure, gestures are becoming an important part of OS X; someday, they might replace the mouse entirely. So Lion’s launch is a perfect opportunity to make the switch—or, at minimum, to become conversant in this interactive language. And even if swiping and tapping on a trackpad is already familiar to you, you’ll still need to adjust to Lion’s new vocabulary. Here are some tips for doing both.
A very good article on the new gestures in Lion and how to use and remember them.
passwdqc is a password/passphrase strength checking and policy enforcement toolset, including an optional PAM module (pam_passwdqc), command-line programs (pwqcheck and pwqgen), and a library (libpasswdqc).
Recently, there has been much talk about tools for generating user-friendly and secure passwords. Personally, I find most of the web-based offerings to be dismal. Thus far, I think pwqgen produces the best pass phrases. Give it a try and you might love it!
Password Strength (via xkcd).
Apple tacked a little API on the end there called “Key Value Store” that could be hugely powerful, if embraced by developers.
This furthers my previous post on iCloud and the concept of Continuous Client.
So what is a Continuous Client you ask? Well the premise is simple: when you leave one device, you pick up your session in exactly the same place on the next device you use. Meaning your IM, Twitter, web browsing, applications, even your windows (given the availability of such a thing on the corresponding platform) appear just as they did on the previous device.
I guess iCloud fills the gap here for the cloud-based part of the infrastructure.
Useful stuff, if you’ve ever got a need to test your regular expression matching.
I’m not generating sales presentations or writing books on my iPhone (although, neither is strictly impossible), but I can quickly and easily do more things with this phone than any computer I’ve ever used. This phone that stays on all day long, continuously connected to the internet, and fits in my pocket.
The iPhone is the most useful computer in the world.
I agree!
For such a simple device it certainly took a fair amount of thought to focus in on what has made it great. I decided to also use this space to go ahead and talk some about the apps that see the most use.
Somewhere along the line I realized that the applications built for the device were starting to aid the iPad in becoming a much more useful tool…More and more apps that I enjoyed but didn’t use often because it was such a pain to get information on and off the iPad were becoming useful as they started to use dropbox as an amazingly simple way to keep things in sync. Now I use it so much that I actually have days where I may find myself with a 30 percent battery life at the end of a busy day which is amazing considering the battery life really is as good as you hear it is.
Having used the iPad for a week. I can definitely say that the iPad is not a laptop replacement. It supplants certain parts of it and complements others.
If you were to ask me if you should get an iPad, I’ll always ask, “What will you use the iPad for?”.
I personally feel that the iPad is a perfect content consumption device, especially reading content-rich articles and photographic-essays. Another superior aspect is its ability to do plain-text, distraction-free writing, something difficult to do so on the computer.
So really, if you’re thinking about editing slides, editing photos, on your iPad, and ditching your laptop, I suggest you don’t. Just get a decent Macbook Pro, you’ll be happier with that. Otherwise, if you do intend to take the plunge, I’ll be more than willing to share my workflow ideas with you.
Interesting direction the geeks are heading…
Remember the DVD CSS key?
Taking over from Apple…
With the WWDC 2010 kicking off in 16-hours time, is the collective web making preparations for the massive influx of traffic that is to come? The previous Apple Keynote almost brought the Internet onto its knees despite its built-in redundancy.
Remember to get your data transferrers completed in 16-hours time or be prepared for a long wait…
