I recently bought a new iMac to replace my aging (3.5+ years old) MacBook Pro, and I love it! Since I’ve been getting some questions about it (and I haven’t blogged in a while anyway), I figured I’d take this opportunity to write a quick blog post. It took me a while to figure out what kind of computer to get: I considered getting another MacBook Pro, but I already have one at work, so I didn’t really need another laptop....
Yesterday, Amazon finally delivered the Magic Mouse that I had pre-ordered a couple weeks ago. (Since I was in the market for a Bluetooth mouse anyway, this seemed like a perfect excuse to pick one up…) The final verdict is still out, but I figured I’d share my initial impressions. Obviously, the biggest feature the Magic Mouse adds is Multi-Touch, very much like the iPhone or iPod Touch. And I can confirm that this indeed works flawlessly....
If you own a MacBook Pro and would like to upgrade to more than 4GB of RAM but think that your model does not support this, you may want to read the rest of this article. I bought a MacBook Pro 17" in April 2008, as my primary development machine. I knew that the standard config with 2GB of RAM wouldn’t be enough for my purposes, but I also wasn’t about to spend a ridiculous amount of money on an official memory upgrade from Apple, so I picked up two cheap G....
For some reason I derive immense gratification from hacking cheap commodity consumer devices and making them do much more than they were originally designed to. Not that I can’t claim all that much credit (as I generally just apply readily available hacks that others have figured out), but still… Some of my favorite past hacks include: Original Xbox: I haven’t played games on it for years, but with XBMC on it, it remains a formidable media center....
Amazon Web Services Over the course of the past 6 months or so, I’ve had the opportunity to explore various cloud hosting services, starting with Amazon Web Services. I don’t want to go into detail about AWS here, but suffice to say that I like this suite of services a lot, and it was a great fit for an SMS app / messaging server I deployed on this infrastructure. The application consisted of a set of loosely coupled components running on EC2 (some daemon apps and some Merb based web frontends), communicating via the Simple Queue Service (SQS)....