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10 Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Put Ubuntu Aside

xun — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 12:13:51 +0000

If you guys have read or view some of the post here, you will know that I am a Macintosh user. However, today I want to story to you about Ubuntu, the cousin of Mac OS X. Why? Just continue reading.

Ubuntu

What is Ubuntu? You guys can read all about them at www.ubuntu.com, but there are few points I would like to focus on: it is ultimately a free Operating System (OS), funded by Canonical and it is open source, which means they have strong guys standing behind them.

The codes are shared among the community, some of them are big guys, such as Google, IBM, Firefox and many more. Instead of a one company teamwork, they utilise the whole world as their developers (you know, the guy who sit and sleep in front of their computer).

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Apple WWDC 2010

xun — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 10:13:03 +0000

Follow the conference opening keynote by Steve Jobs through these liveblogs.

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CloudApp : Share. Files. Fast.

xun — Tue, 04 May 2010 23:28:06 +0000

You love to share files. At one time, you need to share it fast, such as your screenshot or a document. You hate to go to services, and in return you have a long link to share. You hate the need to open the web and upload them, and later click, click, click, click, just to share a single file. However, worry no more.

To speak the truth, there are a lot of file sharing services nowadays, however today I want to introduce to you CloudApp.

CloudApp : Getting Going

Website: www.getcloudapp.com

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The Dilemma of Choosing the Right Internet Browser

xun — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 23:17:26 +0000

This is usually one of the biggest game which web developer had to deal with. Which browser should I support? How about IE?

Apart from that, this is also an issue for internet suffers (at least for users who are aware of speed and security of the browser). What is the right browser for them? Should they use Internet Explorer because it is built into those Windows system? Or should they replace them with Firefox because of those stickers and peer pressure from their friends, plus the ability to be expanded with plugins? Or should they use webkit-based browser for speed and fast rendering, but less expandable, yet which browser? Safari? Chrome? Or the unsung hero of poor connectivity internet browsing experience, the Opera?

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Snow Leopard Audio Bug : Volume Muted On Reboot

xun — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 02:03:56 +0000

Volume resets to mute

I’m sure all of you are very excited with your new Mac OS X Snow Leopard. With those new enhancement, refinement and cleaner interface. However, every time you booted your machine, your audio gets reset to mute. And, you might think that you did silent off your machine.

But, it seems that the case happened every time you booted. Actually it is the sign of the audio bug after Snow Leopard upgrade. I’m not sure about clean install.

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Snow Leopard Issues and Errors

xun — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 15:42:27 +0000

Together with improvements and tunings made by Apple, Snow Leopard also facing issues and errors with its current development serial 10.6. Usually the compatibility issue and errors occur due to change of API or new security enforcement made by Apple.

Thus, developers for the particular applications has to wait for the official release of Snow Leopard before they can continue with the development and updates. Therefore, until the developer update their application, in this post I will tell you which error and issue I bumped to and how to get over it.

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Snow Leopard Changes And Improvements

xun — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 21:53:14 +0000

It has been a week since my upgrade to Snow Leopard and I would like to share my experience poking around with this new Mac OS X. Some of them has been repeatedly reported by other, while some of the refreshment were not focused. So, today I would like to focus on the minor changes but huge improvement made by Apple for Snow Leopard.

On the arrival of Snow Leopard, Apple worked so hard in the pushing the industry to start utilising 64 bit application. Today, System Preferences by default will run in 64 bit architecture and if you want to access any 32 bit app, you will be informed to restart the app in 32 bit.

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Upgrading From Leopard 10.5.8 To Snow Leopard Using Pendrive or Hard Disk

xun — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 03:43:04 +0000

I bet those Apple users out there are craving to death on upgrading their machine box to Apple latest Mac OS X, codename Snow Leopard. You might have sneaking all over the web, reading about Snow Leopard and its reviews. Now, you decided that you want to continue upgrading you current Mac OS X version with Snow Leopard. Here, I’ll try my best to guide you upgrading from Leopard to Snow Leopard using External Storage, instead of the DVD itself.

The reason why I’m using an external drive and not the DVD is because the reading speed of these two medium. A DVD can be read up around 10 Mbps (8x speed) while s0me usb drive can go up to 30 Mbps and an external hard drive has a speed up to 480 Mbps with USB 2.0. However, this is just an another installation technique and not compulsory.

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Getting Google Chrome for Mac

xun — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 09:25:51 +0000

Google Chrome (Mac) and Chromium (Mac)

Previously, I showed you how to get Chrome-like for your Mac, code name Chromium. It was a series of daily development for upcoming Chrome, under the base of Chromium project.

However, today I would to share to you the Developer Release of Google Chrome for Mac, an official build of Chrome. With this release of Google Chrome, it is built with auto-update algorithm, code name Courgette, which serves as the agent for updating the browser. The advantages of having this new feature is that when you’re updating to the latest definition and build, it is no longer in full size installer and instead it will only download the core or any relevant updates. This means that the patches size will be smaller and should be faster.

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How To Get Chrome For Your Mac, Sorf Of.

xun — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:44:07 +0000

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Chrome — a web or internet browser developed by Google and was based on a open-source webkit bassed browser, codename Chromium. Among the famous internet browser such as Safari, Firefox, Opera and Internet Explorer (Windows only), Chrome pops from Google and manage to reside on people computer, except Mac.

Chrome was known as one of the fastest Javascript engin available, the V8. Moreover, Chrome was also known as the first browser with independent Tab-Processing, unlike the others. This concept protects other active tabs if in any case one of the tab producing error or hangs.

You can read more about Chrome over here, or read their comic based explanation over here. I suggest you the comic book.

Back to my topic, for the time being, Chrome only available for Windows based operating system, and not Mac or Linux. However, the foundation project of Chrome, codename Chromium has a solution for Mac or Linux. Sorf of. Because this build is currently under constructions and available as Alpha Build. This means that it is very unstable and not recomended for production usage.

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