Yesterday we saw a few things that John Siracusa didn’t mention in his Snow Leopard review but that I think could have been in talked about in there. Today we will do the same with his Lion review. The same disclaimer applies: John can’t know everything or mention everything, so do not construe anything I [...]
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A few things I would have liked to read about in John Siracusa’s Lion review
Posted by Pierre Lebeaupin on April 2, 2012
http://wanderingcoder.net/2012/04/02/complements-10-7-review/
Make your site shine in lynx (for some value of “shine”)
Yesterday I presented my findings about the Wii browser. Today we shall do the same with Lynx. Lynx is a text-mode browser which renders on terminals. While it will work on a VT-100, it will greatly benefit from a color terminal. I have found Lynx to be useful when browsing the web from low-bandwidth and/or [...]
Posted by Pierre Lebeaupin on April 2, 2012
http://wanderingcoder.net/2012/04/02/website-lynx/
A few complements to John Siracusa’s Snow Leopard review
I always read John Siracusa’s review of the latest Mac OS X release with great interest, and he always delivers. Such is the case again with his review of Mac OS X Snow Leopard, which is of particular interest as for this release Apple teased only “one new feature” (Microsoft Exchange support), and John does [...]
Posted by Pierre Lebeaupin on April 1, 2012
http://wanderingcoder.net/2012/04/01/complements-10-6-review/
Optimizing your website for the Wii
I got myself a Wii last year, and in the process of trying to optimize this blog for it (yes, the Wii has a browser), I learned a number of things that I think will be interesting to share with you… The Device I hardly need to introduce it, but here goes: the Wii is [...]
Posted by Pierre Lebeaupin on April 1, 2012
http://wanderingcoder.net/2012/04/01/website-wii/
Developer ID might not seem restrictive, but it is
I need to talk about Gatekeeper and Developer ID. In short, I am very uncomfortable with this previewed security feature of Mountain Lion. Apple is trying to assure that users are only going to be safer and that developers are still going to be able to do business as usual, but the Mac ecosystem is [...]
Posted by Pierre Lebeaupin on March 7, 2012
http://wanderingcoder.net/2012/03/07/developer-id-restrictive/
iOS lacks a document transfer system, as well
This is a follow-up of sorts to iOS lacks a document filing system, though it stands very well on its own. I’ve never bought into the Free Software movement premise that, if only for all software we used we had the freedom to get its source code, the freedom to modify it as much as [...]
Posted by Pierre Lebeaupin on February 21, 2012
http://wanderingcoder.net/2012/02/21/ios-document-transfer/
iOS lacks a document filing system
Since the beginning of 2010 when the iPad was released, there has been no end of debates over whether it is suitable for creating content, or whether it is primarily a “content consumption” (ugh) device (as if the choices were thus limited…). I am resolutely of the opinion that the iPad is an easel that [...]
Posted by Pierre Lebeaupin on January 20, 2012
http://wanderingcoder.net/2012/01/20/ios-document-filing/
A word about SOPA
The tech media is abuzz with news of a project called “SOPA”, and so I learned that the people of the United States of America, represented by their senators and representatives, are considering new legislation aimed at combatting digital piracy. It is not my position to criticize the decisions of the sovereign people of the [...]
Posted by Pierre Lebeaupin on January 18, 2012
http://wanderingcoder.net/2012/01/18/a-word-about-sopa/
Steve
I wasn’t sure I should write something, at first. Oh, sure, I could have written about the fact I didn’t dress specially thursday morning or didn’t bring anything to an Apple Store, as I thought for Steve I should either do something in the most excellent taste or nothing, and I couldn’t think of the [...]
Posted by Pierre Lebeaupin on October 12, 2011
http://wanderingcoder.net/2011/10/12/steve/
First Impressions of the Mac App Store
I try to be original in the subjects I tackle, but if you are a Mac user, there is no escaping the Mac App Store, which is probably the most important thing to happen to the Macintosh platform since Mac OS X, at least. It remains to be seen whether it will be in a [...]
Posted by Pierre Lebeaupin on January 10, 2011
http://wanderingcoder.net/2011/01/10/mac-app-store/
