February 2012
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Realistic iPad 3 expectations
Since Apple has now announced the date and time for the next iPad event, I thought I would go over the things I think we will see in the next model iPad. While we still don’t know anything specific about the device currently, there is the customary overanalyzing of the Apple invite image and the vast array of rumors that have been popping up since late last year. At the time of me writing...
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Living In The Future, Keeping It In Your Pocket →
Randy Murray wrote a brilliant piece on technology and our perception of it. I highly recommend a read!
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52 Tiger: Samsung Galaxy Note Challenge is the... →
Dave Caolo makes some very good points about this latest Samsung commercial in the US. It’s pretty much the same for almost all advertising these days, but this comparison is rather silly. Silly because it doesn’t actually prove what Samsung claims the Galaxy Note can do.
While Galaxy Note may indeed be a fine machine, I haven’t tried it so I don’t know, I agree with Mr....
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Engadget: iPhone-branded gas stoves seized by... →
I don’t even know where to begin with this one. Are there actually people out there who thinks smacking “iPhone” on anything, even a gas stove, will make it sell better?
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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
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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...