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by John Welch

  • Flash 10.1 on Mac OS X

    Posted Aug 03, 2010 - 09:00 am

    In June of this year, the Adobe Flash team released version 10.1 of the Flash plugin/player. This was the version that would fix all the problems Flash had. No more bogging down of browsers. No more eating your CPU alive. Runs just as perfectly on every handheld (but the iPhone) as it does on desktops. If you had a complaint about Flash, 10.1 would fix it. In short, this was to be the Magic Unicorn release.

  • iPhone 4 "Antennagate"

    Posted Jul 20, 2010 - 09:00 am

    Apple has given its answer to "Antennagate", and the new mushroom cloud is up, and honestly, I wonder if people even bother to listen to what anyone says anymore.

  • Consumer Reports Weighs in on the iPhone 4 Antenna issue

    Posted Jul 13, 2010 - 08:00 am

    So now we have Consumer Reports adding to the overall data on the iPhone 4 "Antenna Grip Bug" dustup. That's good and bad, and gives me an excuse to riff on some things a bit.

  • iPhone 4 Administration: Where's the Beef?

    Posted Jul 06, 2010 - 08:00 am

    Setting both my Clara Pellerism, and the iPhone 4 reception/antenna 'problem' aside, (given that I know more about RF than the average bear, I'm somewhat less worked up about the results of basic physics than your typical gadget site), there is, for me at least a far more pressing problem: Where are the updated versions of the iPhone Configuration Utility and the iOS configuration/management docs?

  • Dribs and Drabs

    Posted Jun 25, 2010 - 12:25 pm

    Just some dribs and drabs from a busy week. I'm waiting on an updated iPhone Configuration Utility, (just checked, still on version 2.2) before I can really talk about the management changes on the iPhone, along with updated documentation. I did update my 3GS to iOS4, and some of the things I noticed:

  • Just Say No To Over-sensationalistic Headlines

    Posted Jun 19, 2010 - 02:31 pm

    There are days I look at a headline and wonder: "What part of that story goes with that headline?" It's a problem in any form of publishing, as the whole purpose of the headline is to get your attention and make you read the story, but the tech industry seems to have the worst issues with it. For example, this story from Computerworld. It's a breathless headline, isn't it? "Adobe knocks Apple for serving up outdated Flash Player". Oh, you can almost hear the knives being sharpened on all sides as you read it.

  • Good Job Adobe Flash Team

    Posted Jun 17, 2010 - 12:31 pm

    I have never been shy about bagging on the Adobe Flash team when I feel it is warranted, and heaven knows, they, or really, their evangelists and PR people give one a nigh-unending stream of rich source material. However, that does mean that when they do something well, or even noticeably better, I have an obligation to point that out as well.

  • WWDC Post-Mortem

    Posted Jun 13, 2010 - 02:40 pm

    First, I would like to say something to the people who said, implied, insinuated, or hinted at how going to an "iPhone-only WWDC" with no IT track would be a complete waste of time: WRONG

  • Apple 2010 WWDC Keynote thoughts

    Posted Jun 08, 2010 - 12:39 pm

    Apple introduced a lot of things during the WWDC 2010 keynote, and had, ironically and amusingly, their own version of the BlueTooth problems Google ran into at their own IO conference, but with almost 600 WiFi base stations in the main room. Steve Jobs ended up spending a lot of time asking people to shut off their WiFi base stations, so that the demos would work correctly. It was funny and kind of sad, for exactly the same reasons that Google doing it during IO was funny and kind of sad.

  • Sideloading: Not going to do what you think it will

    Posted Jun 04, 2010 - 07:25 pm

    So, of late, one of the ideas proposed for Apple to deal with the negative publicity from the App Store is 'sideloading'. I'm not going to go into details on this, instead, read the best explanation of the proposal out there, from Jason Snell over at Macworld. (Disclosure: I've been an irregular contributor to Macworld for quite a long time now.) The gist of this idea is to add, buried way deep down, and accompanied by scary, scary warnings, an 'on switch' for installing 'unapproved' applications from any source.

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