Archive for the ‘Software’ Category

Hated by many, and unfortunately still in widespread use, IE6 will be burried today. Web developers particularly hated IE6 because it was a tremendous mess. These two images show, on the left, how any normal browser works, and on the right, the car crash that IE6 produces:

A funeral will be held Thursday at the Forest [...]

Thursday, March 4th, 2010 at 16:09 | 0 comments
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(via @fanf)

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010 at 18:49 | 0 comments
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Simplenote is probably a wonderful app (at least others think so) but I'm currently not amused, as the following screen shot demonstrates:

New notes are duplicated in the cloud somewhere. I suggest it is the Simplenote Web service, because duplication also happens when I use Notational Velocity (yeah, latest version) with synchronization to the Simplenote service [...]

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010 at 14:22 | 0 comments
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I've found two different toolsets for embedding a C/C++ interpreter into my own code. I haven't tested these yet, but will keep them in mind.

Ch
Ch is an embeddable C/C++ interpreter with some nifty extentions, and it parses and executes C code without transforming it into intermediate or byte code.

Ch supports ISO C standard (C90), major [...]

Monday, January 18th, 2010 at 10:33 | 0 comments
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In spite of several reboots, I couldn't get wireless LAN connected on the iPhone — something that had worked flawlessly until now. No amount of resetting the network settings helped either until the iPhone wouldn't even reboot. The only solution was to put the iPhone into DFU mode with which I could perform the Device [...]

Saturday, January 16th, 2010 at 20:46 | 0 comments
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Tuesday, December 15th, 2009 at 10:43 | 0 comments
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Unless you've been living behind a tree, you'll have heard that Google has presented a first issue of their new operating system called Chrome OS. I was a bit curious to see what it feels like, so I played with it in a VMWare Fusion instance for a few minutes.

It boots very quickly.
I didn't find [...]

Saturday, November 21st, 2009 at 20:48 | 4 comments
Categories: Software, Vmware

There's a wonderful free app for the iPhone with which to manage one or more Wordpress blogs: WordPress for iPhone. This app was recently rewritten and is now at version 2.0.
Unfortunately, I was never able to get the app to list the comments on my site, something I really wanted to have, in order to [...]

Wednesday, November 11th, 2009 at 21:54 | 0 comments
Categories: Site, Software