February 2012
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Macworld: If it ain't broke, don't fix it -... →
An utterly fascinating view into the lives of some old computers, still going strong today. I highly recommend a read!
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The amazing time we live in →
I wrote an article for the great Bagel Tech Network. Please check it out and if you like it, consider supporting the network with a donation. It’s high quality stuff and good people behind it, well worth any and all support you can lend!
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Thinking about LTE
A lot of people love to have the latest technology, which includes companies as they can use them on comparison sheets between their products and the competitors products. Anything you can offer than the competition cannot must be a huge boon, right? Well, how about it it doesn’t really benefit you or add to the whole user experience?
One of the new buzzwords in the mobile tech part of the...
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I've been DuckDuckGo-ing!
A while back I decided to use DuckDuckGo as my main search engine, not so much out of concerns of Google turning into SkyNET any day, but rather out of curiosity about the alternative search engine. I will admit that the design of DuckDuckGo also appealed to me, harkening back to days of yore when Google offered a much more uncluttered and streamlined web search experience. Something I do miss.
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The Verge: Nintendo 3DS is the fastest system to... →
Not too bad for a system that a lot of people wrote of as a failure after two months. Personally I think the 3DS will be an interesting system to keep your eyes on in the near future. Hopefully it’ll have as long a life as the DS.
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Thinking about freedom and computers
There is a fine line to walk between protecting people from bad things and letting people have total and complete freedom. Of course there are also many different ways to define the very concept of freedom when it comes to the world of computing in particular. Given absolute freedom in any computer system, a lot of people would undoubtedly end up damaging the system itself, simply because they...
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Regarding the iOS-ification of OS X
Some have argued that in Lion we saw the beginnings of an “iOS-ification” of OS X, which Apple now appears to be continuing with in Mountain Lion. I have seen a lot of arguing back and forth whether this is or isn’t the case and many good points have been made from both camps. Since I’m an Internet trouble-maker, I thought I would give my humble opinion on the topic.
Yes,...
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A computer for the average person
I’m sure there isn’t a shortage of views and perspectives on what is or isn’t “the best” for the average consumer, regardless of what the topic might be. For a long time I have been thinking about what would be the possibly best computer available on the market today and depending on when you have asked me the answer would have been different. Right now, I consider...
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A day with Mountain Lion
Apple announced (Mac) OS X Mountain Lion. Twitter exploded and the web went mad.
John Gruber and a bunch of other tech journalists got a personal preview last week.
Jim Dalrymple has been tinkering with Mountain Lion since last week. The Beard refused to comment.
Jason Snell wrote a very nice article about the new OS.
A lot of people whined about Apple releasing a new version of the OS. A lot...
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iPad rumor frenzy - Mid February 2012 Edition
This week has seen an explosion of iPad 3 rumors, which we can pretty much thank one single article in the Wall Street Journal for. An article that covers the whole spectrum of iPad-related rumors, might I add.
I really do wish some people wouldn’t start taking what has been reported in the WSJ as absolute truth, simply due to that Walter Mossberg happens to write for that same publication....
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The state of online tech journalism
It’s pretty crap, really.
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Testing the concept of SEO
Apple, surface, substance, shallow people, not real computers, iPhone, iPad, iPod, walled garden, evil, freedom, Steve Jobs, reality distortion field, Tim Cook, homosexuality, tasteless, hipster, mainstream.
Micorosoft, enterprise, Windows, server, servers, security, thin client, security hole, hole in your head, Windows Phone, Series 7, tablet, computer, PC, not MAC, not mac, not Mac, asshole,...
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Now on Steam: Dear Esther →
While the title might throw you off initially, I would advise you to check out the video of the game. As one might guess, this is not your average run-of-the-mill first person shooter, but rather a first person adventure.
The indie game scene is really bubbling with interesting and clever games right now!
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Three GTA Titles Now Available on Mac! →
At long last, we now have all the Grand Theft Auto 3 games (GTA3, Vice City and San Andreas) available for the Mac on Valve’s Steam service. Good prices too, it would seem. The games might be a bit old, but they are definitely good and well worth both money and time, in my book!
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Apple is preparing a 24 inch iPad
Fresh off the press and according to my sources, Apple is indeed preparing to launch a new iPad measuring a whopping 24 inches. A huge step up from the pervious models of iPad which have been 9,7 inch and nothing else.
The proof of this story can be seen in this article from BBC, where you can clearly see some disgruntled workers in the Foxconn factory protesting for their rights, and...
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Revert to Saved:The freemium model and how it... →
I have some fear and some annoyances about how gaming in particular is changing on the App Store and this article pretty much touches on all of them. I recommend a read!
[Via: Federico Viticci]
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Dad shoots daughter’s laptop after reading her... →
I think it’s rare these days to see parents really and firmly putting their foot down and telling their kids when they cross the line. This short video puts some hope back in my view of humanity. Mr. Tommy Jordan, I salute you and what you did!
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Fortune Tech: Apple is now worth more than the GDP... →
I really got a kick out of this, being a Swede and all. Is Apple an economic juggernaut much? I think so!
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Mac OS X and ARM
Back in 2010, a student by the name of Tristan Schaap wrote a thesis about porting Mac OS X 10.6 to run on the ARM architecture as a result of his internship at Apple for six months. The full details about this was brought to light a few days ago and I picked up on it from Apple Insider in their article about it. While the article it itself doesn’t say too much about the topic per say, it...
A small clarification
No, I haven’t fallen off the face of the planet. Not entirely, at least. I’ve just been quite busy working on a few things and not had time to dive whatever has been going on lately. But I’ll try to have something text-like up later today!
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Twitter feed for this site
I decided to move all the “new article has been posted” announcements over to a feed of its own, which can be found at @StreakmachineFD. In case you want to see when I post something on this site, without having to suffer all my randomness cluttering up your twitter clients all the time.
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Akihabara News: Fujitsu unleash a new 7” Android... →
I normally don’t pay much attention to fairly generic product announcements, regardless of which company is behind said product, but this tablet from Fujitsu caught my attention for this little gem:
a total weight of 420g, a 16h battery life and announced at around 34,800 Yen!
That’s actually not bad, if it’s real world numbers and not imaginary marketing “best...
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A small change to my short story site
I just decided to rename my semi-failed project “Weekday Short Story”, since I didn’t manage to keep publishing a short story every weekday. But I won’t let such a small failure keep me down, so it’s now called “Random Short Story” instead, better matching the content and where I’ll be taking the project. More short stories are in the pipeline, I...
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Regarding that ActionPad ad
In a way I guess you must have achieved one heck of a fame in life to be mocked like this after your death. But that doesn’t mean it isn’t one of the most tasteless things I have seen for a while now.
If you haven’t seen the ad in question, go to either site in the via links at the bottom of this article, I won’t link to such crap on my site. I will, however, offer my...
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Terry Lucy: The iPad isn't just a PC, it's the... →
terrylucy:
When Apple released the iPad, I would argue that it actually released the first, truly personal, computer.
Terry Lucy gets it and makes some darn good points along the way! Go read his article if you know what’s good for you!
9to5Mac: Filevault can be brute force cracked... →
While the headline might be a bit on the alarming side, it seems like this is of less threat than you might think:
PassWare decrypts FileVault by going in through the system’s firewire connection and using live-memory analysis to extract the encryption key from the FileVault partition
Which means that whoever is going to crack your password needs physical access to your computer, in which case...
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Founders of The PirateBay lost their appeal
I just saw that the international tech-centric sites picked up on this and that there might be some confusion about what is going to happen. From what I can gather, not a whole lot, really.
The only person I know has said anything publicly about this whole thing is Peter Sunde, who stated that he was disappointed by the verdict, but that he would serve his sentence. Unless my memory fails me...
January 2012
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Bright and shiny future
I often wonder where technology in general went wrong and why it hasn’t progressed in a lot of areas, while it has progressed incredibly much in other areas. Right now we can have dirt-cheap computers in a ridiculously small size package, hook them up to all manner of impressive sensors and do a great number of things that would benefit our lives. I simply refuse to believe that I’m...
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Engadget: BOXX electric bike: two wheels, four... →
I don’t make it a secret that I like to travel on two wheels as long as the roads aren’t covered in ice. I mean that in both terms of bikes using me as the engine and other two-wheeled contraptions as well.
While the looks might be a bit to much for some to stomach, I could seriously consider zooming around on one of these to get from point A to point B!
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Creating habits and routines
One of the many things that interest me and fascinate me is the art of productivity and all the things that surround the topic. You can take courses, classes, read books, get apps and really dive into a nearly never-ending supply of things to obsess over in this wide field. Some, I would say, go so far that they forget that they are actually supposed to be doing something productive instead of...
TUAW: XMG Studios working on a location-based... →
I didn’t mention the name of the studio behind the Inspector Gadget game i reviewed recently but it’s XMG, who now have permission to do a Ghostbusters game. Judging from what TUAW writes, it’ll be a pretty darn interesting game and one I look forward to playing!
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Mac Security in 2011 →
I wrote an article for the Bagel Tech Network on the topic of Mac security, specially relating to a report published last week by F-Secure. Quite an interesting report in my view and I would, humbly, recommend you go check out what I had to write about it.
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An iOS laptop for Harry?
Harry McCracken wrote an article a few days back, where he muses around a laptop with iOS. He specifies many of the good properties of his current setup with an iPad and an external keyboard, and how it would be glorious if Apple decided to build a laptop proper, running iOS instead of Mac OS X. I don’t think that McCracken is wrong or that it’s a bad article. Not at all! I just have a...
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Review: Inspector Gadget's MAD Dash
I remember watching Inspector Gadget on TV as I was growing up. It was and still is a relatively funny show, with a complete nincompoop, Inspector Gadget himself, as the main character. Loaded to the brim with all manner of gizmos and devices, he is essentially a walking, talking device of mass destruction. But despite being a bit on the dimwitted side of things, he was a likable character and...
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“Yes, there will always be idiot bloggers and ill-informed pundits clamorous for...”
– Stephen Hackett, Our Time is Now — 512 Pixels
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Matt Gemmell: iBooks Ideas →
If you are itching to do some workin iBooks Author, but not sure just what to make, you should check out this very interesting list Matt Gemmell put together. Some real gold nuggets in the list and it has made me think about putting a thing or two together!
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The Verge: An interview with William Gibson →
I’m a huge fan of William Gibson and the works he has produced so far. In my mind Gibson is one of the most interesting authors active today. The Verge got a pretty darn nice interview with the man himself and I do recommend it.
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The unlikely 4-inch iPhone
Since over a year back there have been various rumors and speculation about wether there will be a bigger display, usually a size of 4 inches is tossed around, in the next generation iPhone. It didn’t happen for the iPhone 4, which a lot of people thought it would and it also didn’t happen with the iPhone 4S last fall. Why do I think that it is unlikely for Apple to put a 4-inch screen...
The Brooks Review: Let’s Ditch Google for... →
I have been thinking about this for a while myself and I’m inclined to agree with Mr. Brooks. Speaking for myself, I use a search engine to get valid and relevant results on whatever it is I’m searching for and I’m starting to feel like Google is straying from this.
DuckDuckGo might not yet be a complete replacement, but as far as I have tried it, the results are quite nice. The...
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iPhone 5 and 4-inch screens
I normally don’t peruse Cult of Mac, but the article More Chatter That iPhone 5 Will Get4-inch Display caught my attention. While it’s not bad in the whole, there are just a few things that I want to comment on:
A Wall Street expert lent his voice to the chorus, telling investors the new device will begin production in June
The same kind of people who keep misunderstanding Apple as...
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Smartphones are up, lots of devices down
I found an article in Macworld which basically says that smartphones are killing video cameras and a few other devices. Can’t say I’m all too surprised at the numbers presented, considering the impressive progress in technology.
This makes sense from the perspective of the average person who doesn’t crave any special features that go beyond what a commonplace camcorder would...
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The Streak Speaks - Episode 11 →
Incredibly enough, I have managed to record yet another episode. Who’da thunk it, huh?
This time, it’s all about that nasty SOPA business.
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Thoughts on the Apple education event
I’m not sure if all this has confused a lot of people or that they just didn’t catch the topic of the event, but at any rate I have seen a lot of commentary suggesting that people have seen iBooks Author as a general book-writing tool/layout tool. I would say it is most definitely not. Not yet, anyway. Down the road I see Apple could add more functionality to iBooks Author, really...
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My selective social networking
From the start, at least in my perspective, I have never really gotten on the social network bandwagon. Communities were the big thing around the turn of the millennium and I never had the desire to join one, despite that “everybody” else was gleefully hopping into the pond. It just didn’t seem like something worth my time, seeing as the main activity people used the services for...
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Ars Technica: Apple to announce tools, platform to... →
Some very interesting insights and thoughts around the upcoming Apple event on Thursday. I would love to see a “Garageband for eBooks”!
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Is the iPad a PC?
A debate as been raging since the introduction of the iPad back in early 2010. A debate wether the iPad should be considered a PC or if we should take the class of tablet computers as a completely different category all together. This debate has intensified whenever anyone or any company that deals with as fascniating things as statistics has been bold enough to publish and such with the iPad...
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Tactile feedback in the touchscreen era
You have no doubt heard me whine about this before. I’m just that kind of guy, who zeroes in on one aspect of how things are or how they have changed, most specifically in a way that conflicts with how that person thinks things should be. While I’m quite fine with how many things, particularly in technology, have changed over the course of my relatively short life, there are some...
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Anticipating the Apple Education Event
There is a lot of speculation about what will be unveiled at the Apple event this coming Thursday, specially since it’s all about education. Apple has been a very active participant in education ever since the early days of the company, although they have perhaps not done so much publicly in the last few years. That is not to say that Apple has forgotten about education all together, given...
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The Verge: Lenovo's CEO believes the iPad is... →
When new product or product category comes along and directly threatens your main line of business, why not dismiss it as a ‘niche’ and say it’s not really all that relevant. Specially if you have tried and so far not had much success at building your own product targeting said product category.