I took the plunge and spent my precious Sunday afternoon exploring the world of Apple software development. I hunkered down and completed the simple Currency Converter Guide from Apple’s Developer Connection website. I thought that the guide was well organized and covered most of the important topics and design decisions regarding object oriented programming and…
Month: January 2008
Advertisement Free Google Searches!
I recently discovered this URL: http://google.com/ie Essentially it is a no frills version of Google Search. There are no advertisements and results are displayed as a list of links. Speeds are surprisingly even faster than the normal Google search. I came about this information when viewing Fravia’s web site about search techniques. A very interesting…
My Thoughts on Macworld 2008
This was the first Macworld (Steve Jobs Keynote) that I actually kept tabs on since switching over to Apple hardware last year. I had watched recordings of the previous events and this year definitely did not top the last 2. I mean, Randy Newman was the one more thing which I thought was pretty lame…
Getting Around a College Firewall and Bandwidth Throttling
My college, like most others across America employ a restrictive firewall and limit bandwidth for certain file transfers. YouTube in particular is severely limited on my campus making viewing virtually impossible on weekends and painfully slow any other time. Fortunately though, I learned a little more about the network setup and how they prioritize different…