One of the biggest announcement Apple made in recent time was the announcement of the App Store for Mac. If you didn’t see the initial pitch, it is similar to iTunes App Store for iOS (iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch etc), but for native Mac OS X desktop applications. We (as in WireLoad) wanted to be apart of this from the start, and got busy thinking about …
I’m really excited about this. Red iGone, the red-eye removal tool I’ve been working on for some time, is now available on the iPad. This is the first iPad application I’ve been working on, and the end-result is pretty awesome. While the web-version works great, the iPad version is far more intuitive, given the intuitive touch experience. Direct iTunes link. …
In this article, I will walk you through the process of setting up ASSP. If you’ve never heard of ASSP, it is a great anti-virus and spam-fighting proxy that sits in front of your SMTP server. Under the hood, ASSP includes a lot of intelligent spam logic, but you won’t really have to worry about it. All you really need to know is that it great at fighting …
If you’re like me, you spend a lot of time in the terminal window. It’s not rare that I SSH into 10+ different servers in a day. Having easy-to-remember FQDN’s makes it easier, but sometimes that’s not possible. Sometimes you only have an IP to a server, perhaps the server has a really long FQDN, or perhaps SSH is running on some arbitrary port. That makes …
If you’re into startups and technology, you should really watch the following interview with Jason Calacanis from the Fowa-conference in London. I really like how Jason describes the way he and his team work. I completely agree with him. There is no such thing as ‘balance’ in a startup. You’re either in to do it all the way, or you might as well go home. …
Scaling architecture and web sites is really something I find exciting. I’ve playing with scaling various software for many years, but it is just recent years I’ve come to use this in production (primarily through YippieMove). If you’re curious about scaling your website, I can really recommend the following video lecture from Harvard. It goes though concept …
Photoshop and Illustrator are somewhat of required apps today. You realize how much you need these apps when they decide to not play ball. This have happened to me a few times, and it often relate to fonts. Photoshop simply crashes when I bring up the font tool. Given that this is probably one of the most frequently used tools, this is a pretty big deal. The …
We all have our must-have apps. Whenever we re-install our system, these are the first apps we want to get in so that we can get back to business. From time to time we discover new apps that are really mind-blowing and we wonder how we survived without them. For me, 1Password and Visor are two apps like that. Since we all have different must-have apps, I …
Yesterday I read an article titled “Why Apple can’t beat Android” over at VentureBeat. It was an interesting read, and Mr. Grim argued in the article that Android is here to stay, and that Android will soon dominate the smartphone market. I do not disagree with Mr. Grim. It makes a whole lot of sense. In the opening of the article, Mr. Grim states that …
Let’s face it — all computers fail at one time or another. In my experience Apple computers break far less than PCs, and when they fail, Apple provide fast and great repairs. If you live in a country with Apple Stores, it’s even easier. When a PC breaks, you’re usually out of luck. Long hours on hold with some Indian call center awaits you and if you are …