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....
magic mouse 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....
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....
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......
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....