Safari blowhard switches to Firefox 3, film at 11

August 2nd, 2008 by brad

After ages of preferring Safari I think I’ve just convinced myself to switch to Firefox 3. I’ve added a few extensions to make it work pretty nicely the way I like, and fill in some features it’s missing (and some that Safari itself doesn’t have):

FoxMarks, so I can sync my bookmarks on all machines where [...]

Quit blocking Google Analytics.

July 27th, 2008 by brad

I’ve noticed a trend, particularly among Mozilla Firefox users who have the NoScript extension installed, to block Google Analytics from running.

This isn’t Google spyware…

Dutch Telecom

July 26th, 2008 by vitaliy

Vitaliy Gladkevitch posted a photo:

Dutch Telecom

Akamai

July 26th, 2008 by vitaliy

Vitaliy Gladkevitch posted a photo:

Akamai

Practically Replacing Microsoft Exchange Server - A 3 Part Series - 2 of 3 - Zimbra Collaboration Suite

July 24th, 2008 by brad

For a long time, Zimbra has been an ‘almost but not quite’ Exchange alternative - it offered the web GUI and the Outlook compatibility, but not the standards based calendar protocol (CalDAV) or the mobile device support of its big brother. Zimbra’s latest version, which has only been in the wild for a few months, is different.

Practically Replacing Microsoft Exchange Server - A 3 Part Series - 1 of 3

July 24th, 2008 by brad

Part 1 of 3: Workgroup/Corporate Collaboration - The Phantom Menace
For years, workgroups and corporate environments have needed a solution that combined a mailsystem with collaborative tools, like a calendar and shared contacts. For years, this solution was only provided by Microsoft in the form of Microsoft Exchange.
For years, Microsoft Exchange was bar-none the best tool [...]

Getting poor call reception on your iPhone 3G? Turn off 3G.

July 24th, 2008 by brad

Here’s a good tip for you iPhone 3G users: 3G network coverage in many parts of North America is quite poor, even though coverage maps may indicate otherwise. While 3G is the big hype, especially since the release of Apple’s 3G handset came out, its deployment in the New World (and even some parts of [...]

WordPress for iPhone

July 23rd, 2008 by brad

This is my first post from the iPhone. It’s been a long time in coming, and there have been several hangups.
The 2.0 iPhone firmware presented me with the App Store, and the WordPress iPhone app appeared shortly afterward. Thing is, the app crashes repeatedly when I enter my login info. Once I’ve figured out why, [...]

Copyright Regime versus Civil Liberties

June 18th, 2008 by vitaliy

MacVim

June 18th, 2008 by vitaliy

Every proper geek is faithful to his text editor, thus the great battles between vi and Emacs users. Working with UNIX servers taught me how to use VIM. I came across MacVim project, Cocoa front-end to the powerful VIM editor that integrates with the OS X desktop. I can now use the same editor, and [...]