TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog
Filed under: Apple On Saturday, when you plug in your shiny new iPad and peruse the App Store for apps, you'll see 'HD' or 'XL' designations for iPad-specific apps. You may wonder what that's all about. It's about a lack of solid information, driven by a…
31 March 2010MacOSXHints.com
One of the challenges in my new career at Many Tricks is that Peter Maurer is located in Germany, while I'm here in the USA. I wanted to find a way to provide him with updated sales and expense reports without jumping through a lot of hoops. I decided on a…
30 March 2010Planet Debian
30 March 2010Planet Debian
I'm thinking about distributed issue tracking systems that play nice with git. I don't care about other version control systems anymore :). I also prefer command line interfaces, because as commentators on the blog have mentioned, I'm a Luddite (in the…
30 March 2010Planet Debian
30 March 2010TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog
Filed under: Software BoyGeniusReport has posted a series of screen shots from the next version of Microsoft Office for the Mac. The screen shots show the updated versions of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. They also show the first look at the new Outlook…
30 March 2010Wired Top Stories
There are six different configurations of Apple's new iPad. Which model do you need? Our buyer's guide will help you choose.
30 March 2010MySQL Performance Blog
Andrew from Sphinx continues to work on improving SQL (or SphinxQL) support and now he published benchmarks comparing arithmetic expression handling in Sphinx to one in MySQL. The result ? Sphinx scored 3x to 20x faster. Andrew goes to explain results…
30 March 2010TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog
Filed under: iPod Family Tony Fadell first envisioned a hard drive-based digital music player in the 1990s. He took his idea to Real Networks only to leave six weeks later after reports of in-fighting between himself and Real's CEO. After several years,…
30 March 2010Slashdot
tazzbit writes "The storage vendors have been crowing about data deduplication technology for some time now, but a new open source project, Opendedup, brings it to Linux and its hypervisors — KVM, Xen and VMware. The new deduplication-based file system…
28 March 2010