Author: Chad Kohalyk
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Fraser Speirs: Getting really real on soft dev in the future
Excellent article. Some choice quotes: Be clear: I’m not saying OS X is dead, nor that Apple has no interest in improving it. I am saying that I suspect that the days of everyone buying a MacBook to get online are soon to be over. I’ve already written about how I see our three-Mac family…
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Farewell Facebook
For the past 2 weeks I have been seriously considering deleting my Facebook account. The tech community is rife with doubts about how Facebook is running its business, and where it is going in the future (check any number of tech blogs to see coverage of this). I don’t want to be a part of…
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Not to know what happened before you were born is to be a child forever. Cicero
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Importing Mobile Equipment in Japan
Both NTT Docomo and Softbank operate on the 2100 Mhz W-CDMA band which is compatible with most of the global 3G network providers around the world so now, most 3G hardware available on the open market is technically able to work in Japan. I say technically because there are still quite a few safeguards put…
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Chad on Chappers’ Premier League Podcasts E39 – 4th May 2010
My question made the end of this week’s Chapper’s Premier League Podcast (iTunes link). I was surprised to hear it broadcast! For the record, this is the full email I sent in: Chappers, Will you be narrating the audiobook version of “Heroes, Hairbands and Hissy Fits” (assuming there will be one)? With anticipation, Chad (A…
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See, computers are racist because… Umm… okay. He is right about one thing: computers are too hard to use.
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See, computers are racist because… Umm… okay. He is right about one thing: computers are too hard to use.
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Please take a thug to church
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Substandard web-browsing experience on the iPad and iPhone
An astounding number of websites on the Japanese web fail to declare charset, resulting in garbled text (文字化け), requiring the user to manually switch encoding. Safari on the Mac or PC allows you to switch via the View menu. Unfortunately there is no such menu for Mobile Safari. The iPad is billed as an amazing…
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Finder sepia-tints successive generations of alias icons
When Finder creates an icon for an alias, it adds a tiny arrow to the bottom-left corner. However, it also slightly tints the resulting icon with a sepia wash. … the icons will gradually get more faded, like a re-photocopied document. Finer things, indeed. Finder sepia-tints successive generations of alias icons