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Digital Download prices are forced by retail stores

I really wasn’t planning to make three posts tonight, but I couldn’t help putting up some discussion on Jeff Atwood’s latest rant about Digital Software Distribution.  I know where he’s coming from,...

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It’s time we dispelled the Vista release delay myth

I just found a Vista Death March article by John C. Dvorak talking about Vista’s lack of ability to sell, and for the most part I agree with him.  However at one point he suggests they should go back...

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The furry elephant in the corner has left the building

I’ve done it. I’m ditching Vista for OSX. You may think I’m a switcher, you may think I was a fool for using Vista at all and if you’re like the rest of the world, you probably think I’m a fool for...

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A crash course in MythTV backend setup

I’ve had a MythTV box running for quite a few years now, but there’s always new things to learn, right? My flatmate’s TV is in for repairs so we haven’t been using the box in the last few days, with a...

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That’s enough essays for a while

I think 3 huge posts in the space of a week is enough. It’s not that I had them built up from a month of silence, I’ve just had a lot to say about topics that came up recently And just because I don’t...

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Finding myself some office software

I’ve held out for a while, but last month reached the point where I need some kind of word processor & spreadsheet software. I use MS Office at work, but have always considered it too expensive for...

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This is huge

I’m in the middle of another post and was distracted reading some RSS feeds when I came across this gem. Google now supports ActiveSync for contacts and calendar I already sync my contacts and calendar...

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This new google sync has a slight flaw

The new Google mobile ActiveSync is working great for my calendars. Syncing iCal to google was pretty easy; I exported my 3 local calendars, cleared out the main Google calendar & created 2 new...

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Enabling 5.1 surround sound in OS X

Close to 18 months ago, when I first started seriously using that old mac laptop, I decided I needed a way to easily transfer my speakers between the desktop games machine and my mac that I used for...

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Quote of the year

… or at least, a quote good enough to make me come out of hiding before I’ve explained why things have been so quiet around here. John Gruber on the iPhone IDE debacle: If you are constitutionally...

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Why OCaml, why now?

OCaml first hit my radar in November 2013. I had just learnt SML, a similar but older language, in the excellent Programming Languages Coursera course. Dan Grossman is one of the best lecturers I’ve...

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A look back at “why OCaml”

My post describing why I was interested in OCaml was originally intended as an internal document at my office arguing that we should invest in an AltJS project. The failure of that effort was...

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OCaml to JavaScript buzzwords

There has been a lot of change in the OCaml -> JS landscape over the last couple of years, and I regularly see questions about what all the names mean. This is my attempt to sort out the world as I...

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A big TinyMCE shakeup

Today marked the release of TinyMCE 5 and the launch of our shakeup of the project with the hope to see it modernise and move forward into the future. This shakeup, from my perspective, comes in four...

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Expanding a Tiny(mce) home

For an open source project as old and well-known as TinyMCE the primary repository is more than just a collection of code; it’s home base, the first place to look for help and the foundation for...

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