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126 posts tagged “apple”

2006

What is the physically smallest and cheapest laptop capable of running OS X?

Apple rumors are worth approximately nothing, but there’s one going around that a ultra-slim 12“ MacBook Pro is going to be announced at MacWorld Expo some time in the second week of January; might be worth holding on until then to see if there’s any truth to it. There’s certainly a 12” sized hole in the line-up at the moment.

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So long Safari?

All browsers have bugs—especially relating to fancy JavaScript stuff. Any truly complex web application is likely to run in to browser bugs, and fixing them takes a whole bunch of time. Bugs in IE and Firefox are pretty well understood, as are the workarounds for them.

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2005

Providing Application Access to SQL Data in Apple Remote Desktop 2 (via) Interesting—Apple’s Remote Desktop 2 runs off a PostgreSQL database.

# 3rd March 2005, 10:28 am / apple, postgresql

Small, Cheap, and Without a Display. John Gruber’s analysis of the MacWorld expo.

# 17th January 2005, 4 am / apple, john-gruber

2004

Daring Fireball: Security Cannot Be Spun. Apple’s communication handling of the recent security problem was atrocious.

# 31st May 2004, 4 am / apple, daringfireball, john-gruber, osx, security

Daring Fireball: A Big Garage. John Gruber thinks GarageBand demonstrates the essence of Apple’s target audience

# 6th January 2004, 10:31 pm / apple, john-gruber