General IT stuff
I’ve had my iPad now for a week and so far it’s been great. There are a couple things I don’t like but overall I’m both impressed and happy. Let me start out with the the things I don’t like. iPhone only apps: the little mini screen drives me a crazy and only a few […]
When I got home from work today I found my iPad sitting at my front door. I’ve started to mess around with it and I’m so glad that I bought it. I’ve got my base apps installed, the 3G activated, wi-fi to my home network on, Mobile Me configured, email account setup, and my Gelaskin […]
I’m anxiously awaiting my 3G iPad but something dawned on me, I haven’t seen one in the open. I ride a commuter train each day to and from Chicago and I would expect to see some city chic person with one. Plus I live in what would be considered an upscale neighborhood and would expect […]
After riding the rails for a good amount of time I broke down and decided to plunge into iPad land. I’m still not sold on the costs of the 3G contract and it bothers me that I would have to pay for both my iPhone and iPad. But then again I know how I am […]
Here I am riding the train and writing this on my iPhone. It works but it’s not very fast. But how much easier would it be on an iPad? I do believe that I would spend less time hitting the backspace button because the virtual keyboard is larger. I’m severely doubt that I would be […]
I’ve got a modern iMac running OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard). Beyond being a Mac geek at heart I have always felt that OS X makes it easy to do things so I can focus on the work and not the machine. I was so glad when Apple introduced Time Machine, a utility that runs […]
I’ve always appreciated Easter Eggs in software products. I remember doing things like searching for Elvis in the original Mac OS Map program, or finding the magic hidden dot in Atari’s Adventure to get you to the secret room. I just added a friend of mine who is leaving the company where we worked on […]
FlexLM is a licensing product that can be used with applications to manage licenses for usage. FlexLM itself can be installed on central servers and used to manage/distribute licenses in a enterprise environment. There are three license types that can be used with FlexLM: Floating: a pool of licenses that are given out and returned […]