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CoreFTP and X-Win32
1/23/2007Yesterday I helped Jenny Zha submit her CSCI 101 homework. Most people do not understand FTP and SSH. Here at USC, we use CoreFTP for file transfers, but it’s actually over SFTP (Secure File Transfer Protocol), which works the same … Continue reading →
Disagreeing with Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft
6/18/2006The weakest aspect of the neutrality case is that the dangers it alleges are speculative. It seems unlikely that broadband providers will degrade Web services that people want and far more likely that they will use non-neutrality to charge for … Continue reading →
It’s About Time – WordPress Upgrade
1/24/2007I’d been running 2.0.1 since it was released, and I skipped over all the intermediate releases until today’s release: WordPress 2.1. This seems to be quite a major upgrade. It seemed to go smoothly, but it’s hard to tell with … Continue reading →
Category Archives: Apple
The Day I Talked With Steve Jobs
As far as I can remember, I began following Steve Jobs around 2005, when he announced that Apple would be switching to x86 hardware. He really impressed me in 2006, when he announced the MacBook Pro and iWeb. My infatuation … Continue reading
How to change the browser interface language of Google Chrome for Mac
1. At the top left of your screen, open the Apple menu. 2. Click System Preferences… 3. Under Personal, click Langauge & Text. (On my system, this is the fifth icon from the left.) 4. Under the Language tab, drag … Continue reading
iPad isn’t a computer
When people complain that the iPad doesn’t have multitasking, a camera, a full-fledged desktop OS, or an exposed filesystem, they’re missing the point. They’re forgetting what came before: a slew of tablets from the likes of HP, Lenovo, Fujitsu, Asus, … Continue reading
Cheapest New Mac
Now that my (still awesome) 15″ MacBook Pro is 2 generations behind the latest and greatest, I wonder: What would be the cheapest way for me to get a new Mac? Would it be with my ADC student membership? Or … Continue reading
Charging an Apple iPhone using a MacBook Pro
I bought my iPhone on the first day it was released. That was June 29, 2007 — well over a year ago. The battery still works well — usually lasting a full day under normal use. But if it’s taken … Continue reading
iPhone App Development Classes
My latest iPhone/iPod touch app, Whiteboard Lite, is now available in the iTunes App Store. This semester, I’m a Lab Assistant (also sometimes called a Teaching Assistant or TA) for the new ITP 499 iPhone App Development class here at … Continue reading
Localizable.strings Not Working
The iPhone offers good localization support the same way Mac OS X does. For strings, developers use a file called “Localizable.strings”. It’s a bit tricky, though. The syntax of the file is strict; any small error will cause it to … Continue reading
End of 2008
Well, I haven’t blogged in a long time, and now school’s about to start again, so I’d better get to it. Another year has come and gone, and I must say that it was a very eventful one. Far too … Continue reading
Today, I Lose All Respect For Apple: Software “Updater” Installs Safari
I used to highly respect Apple. I bought an iBook, a few iPods, an iMac, and an iPhone. I’ve purchased several songs on iTunes, and I’ve used the Safari beta. They’re trying to remove DRM from iTunes music. They were … Continue reading