TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog
My long search for the perfect iPad sleeve has come to an end. That's because I've found the Joli iPad sleeve. And it's a sleeve I'll use as long as I own my iPad 2. The Joli iPad sleeve is handmade, which probably accounts for its excellent quality. The…
27 September 2011Planet Mozilla
Based on a blog post originally posted here by Taras Glek, Firefox Developer. Firefox 7 marks a turning point in how we measure Firefox performance. Traditionally we measured Firefox performance on individual developer machines and our build & release…
27 September 2011MacOSXHints.com
I wanted a quick way to boot once to Windows. Typically I reboot and hold the Option key to select an alternate startup disk. I've decided that I will upgrade the video card on my Mac Pro to an ATI 6870. Since there is currently no way to flash the card to…
27 September 2011Planet Mozilla
Today we’re releasing Firefox Update 7. This update contains work that’s been stabilizing over the last 3 months and there are quite a few interesting things to talk about. To be clear, this is not the canonical list of changes, just highlights. As…
27 September 2011Planet KDE
FaceOff is a simple web service that takes photographs and returns coordinates of detected faces, encapsulated with JSON. It uses a PHP-wrapped libface for the processing. The source code is on GitHub. *** These days I’m into wrappers. As a personal…
23 September 2011Planet GNOME
22 September 2011TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog
Dear Dev Juice, I'm so confused. Is ARC Automatic Reference Counting or Automated Reference Counting? And is it Manual Retain and Release or Manual Reference Counting? Help a guy out. Paul W. Dear Paul, Let's separate those two questions because there's a…
22 September 2011TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog
I've tried just about every iPad magazine app that has made it to market. For many of the e-mags, the subscription cost is more than the value of the content. Some magazines are using the traditional advertising model to create a revenue stream, and fill…
21 September 2011Planet Debian
Anyone who works with building something with a few libraries will quickly become familiar with 's; that is the ability to store a path inside a binary for finding dependencies at runtime. Slightly less well known is that the dynamic linker provides some…
21 September 2011MacOSXHints.com
At least in the MacBooks the Secure (encrypted) Virtual Memory is enabled by default. The option to disable it has been removed from the Security & Privacy General preference panel. One may check if it is enabled by running in Terminal the following…
21 September 2011