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OSX Lion Full Screen Mode is a Dual-Monitor Failure

Posted on January 24, 2012 by in Apple, Mac, Soapbox

Running full-screen apps on OSX Lion is a great way to remove all distractions when you’re working and ensure you’re getting the most out of every pixel on your display. That is, unless you’re using more than one display, in which case, it sucks.

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Be Careful Using iMessage On Company Networks and Public WiFi

Posted on November 28, 2011 by in Apple, iPhone

In a previous post, I talked about how OSX Lion has helped make sharing my office’s internet connection over wifi easier. When I have my Mac broadcasting the connection, I can help cut down on the costs of 3G data by using WiFi on my iPhone and iPad when I’m at work. But when it [...]

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Five Reasons Why I Am Done With iPhone Jailbreaking (For Now)

Posted on November 23, 2011 by in Apple, iPhone, Soapbox

Since I became an iPhone owner a couple years ago, I’ve always found that jailbreaking has opened the ubiquitous device up to some really cool features not otherwise available in Apple’s walled garden. But as of late, with iOS updates flying fast and new features cropping up, I have found reason after reason to return [...]

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iOS 5 Makes Installing Multiple Apps / Updates Faster

Posted on November 21, 2011 by in Apple, iPhone

One marked improvement I’ve seen on my iPhone 3GS since upgrading to iOS 5 is that it has improved the speed of installing multiple apps or app updates from the iTunes App Store. In iOS 4 or earlier, each app would download and install one at a time, making installing updates for many apps a sometimes slow [...]

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The Future of Apple: Sell Your Stocks Now?

Posted on November 10, 2011 by in Apple

The Globe and Mail published an article stating several reasons why, given the recent death of its co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs, the future of Apple is in decline and that it would be a good idea to sell your stock in the company, should you own any. What bothers me about this advice is [...]

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Happy Birthday to My Little Man

Posted on October 26, 2011 by in Personal Notes

It’s been a wild year and I’m delighted to say that my little man Adam turned 1 on October 22. His birthday party is on Saturday but he’s got a bunch of toys already from us and his grandparents – including this sweet wooden block toy. Big thanks to everyone who attended Adam’s first birthday [...]

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So Long, And Thanks for All The Fish.

Posted on October 6, 2011 by in Apple, Mac, Personal Notes

A short tribute to Steve Jobs and Apple.

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Local Hair Replacement Clinic Ad Inspired By QR Code Resume

Posted on October 3, 2011 by in Advertising, Brands, Social Media

Remember Victor Petit’s totally awesome QR code resume? The one that made you feel pretty insignificant, regardless of your perfect typesetting and leather-bound portfolio? Yeah, he did a pretty clever thing. I wonder if it got him a job. Well, I guess someone took notice of his clever idea, because now ad agencies are scamming being [...]

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OS X Lion Safari: Yech.

Posted on September 28, 2011 by in Mac

I recently read about known problems with memory leaks in Lion Safari which likely accounts for the problems I’ve been seeing: I keep Safari open for a while and it gets insanely sluggish loading pages and scrolling through content.

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OS X Lion Makes Internet Sharing Easier Than Before

Posted on August 2, 2011 by in iPhone, Mac

After recently upgrading to OS X Lion, I was delighted to discover that this process of constantly needing to toggle internet sharing is a thing of the past.

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