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Since I had willingly allowed my MobileMe subscription to expire, I no longer had access to Apple's Back to My Mac service for accessing my home Mac remotely. Although the feature was definitely useful + headache free to setup and ...

The Apple tablet for the masses is here and it's called the Apple iPad. I'm sure Apple conducted hours of user research & feedback to decide on the name iPad. Right? I really liked the idea of the tablet being ...

A couple days ago I decided to get some morning snowboarding in before the day started. Unfortunately, the rain which I hoped would subside persisted throughout the entire morning. Two hours later, our group decided it was time to call ...

A few days ago while working on a new UI component I had to come up with a solution to highlight identified keywords (using named entity recognition) inside of a chunk of user generated text. While the idea was fairly ...

I'm glad that Man & Machine won the rights to the name "Mighty Mouse". The Apple Mighty Mouse was an absolute disappoint. Three years ago I was ignorantly unaware of just how terrible the white wireless pill was. Initially impressed ...

Every four months or so, I get the urge to do one of two things:If the iPhone is running an official OS build from Apple, I jailbreak it citing reasons of (a) flexibility, (b) customization, and (c) access to enhancements ...

I managed to get my hands on a GrandCentral phone number before the service was acquired by Google in 2007. Armed with a truly mobile "mobile" virtual number, I've managed to maintain better control and organization of my personal and ...

UPDATE: Thanks to reader comments, I discovered that this mini-rant concerning Gmail Push was due to my handset being unable to sync properly. Formatting the phone and following the Google Sync setup instructions agin resulted in a properly synced phone. ...

Over the past couple of months I have been keeping an eye on the latest news and announcements for Google Wave. Why? Because the next communication platform from Google is going to change the way we communicate in real-time. For ...

Apple's latest iPhoto '09 has grown up and gone social. The updated version includes Facebook & Flickr integration - to supplement the existing MobileMe support - for your photo sharing needs. From Apple's description page:Facebook - To publish photos to ...

GrabUp. Heard of it? Last year I started using the tiny utility to quickly grab and share select areas of my screen with contacts in emails or instant message conversations. I enjoyed the idea and convenience so much that I ...

There once was a time when I assumed that setting up a quality home music network would be challenging and costly. I thought that my main options were either the (1) Sonos Music System or (2) Airport Express + iTunes ...

Syl and I enjoyed an awesome 2.5 weeks visiting parts of Southern Spain with a group of friends and their significant others. We made our way through Chiclana, San Fernando, Cadiz, Granada, Seville, Conil, El Bosque / Benamahoma (for a ...

If you are writing for an audience online, one of the first services you should enable is real-time analytics. You might find yourself adding a snippet of code from Google Analytics (free), Mint ($30), Reinvigorate (beta), Clicky (free), or something ...

Just a friendly reminder. If you are a MobileMe subscriber and have upgraded to the latest 3.0 iPhone OS, make sure to enable Find My iPhone on the device.Here's a real life scenario to understand just how useful the ...

I'll keep the announcement short and to the point. Like Grid Focus, The Unstandard WordPress theme has enjoyed its own share of success. Since the original release, I have made it a habit to spend a portion of my day ...

One of the most requested features by The Unstandard WordPress theme users was a easier method for photo thumbnails on front pages. After exploring a few options including using the baked in WordPress media image re-sizer, Raul’s code snippet to ...

FriendFeed just announced new themes for users. What's a social web service without, right? Oddly enough, the selected theme for a given user profile is visible for the profile owner only.Can I choose how my profile or group page looks ...

If I worked primarily on a PC, Microsoft Visio would be one of the most used apps in my dock Start Menu. I can't speak from personal experience, but based on the features (and from what others have told ...