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  • Quote: Originally Posted by gibson10ma Is it just me, or did AT&T just get done telling the FCC that it had no role in approving iPhone applications? From what I understand, this is an agreement between AT&T and Loopt to forward locati…
  • Quote: Originally Posted by Oh-es-Ten I agree with you here. I am teaching myself Obj-C (coming from a web dev background in PHP) and although I could get something made fairly easily but cutting and pasting sample code from forums etc, I am star…
  • JavaCowboy— You've asked a lot of good questions, and generally seem to be more curious than attacking, which I respect. A few comments... Quote: Originally Posted by JavaCowboy However, to the programmer, it lacks the simplicity of other fram…
  • Quote: Originally Posted by timgriff84 I you want to learn to program these days you knowledge comes from internet guides, blog posts, forums etc. As far as I can the future of books in development is they will probably hang around for a long tim…
  • Quote: Originally Posted by jfanning So what you are saying is, you are only interesting in the numbers that help you make a point, not the 50% of numbers which may prove your arguement wrong? I wouldn't say that just because we're comparing a…
  • Quote: Originally Posted by mstone That is a web development issue. If you code everything inside an enclosing then it waits. Of course that is the way everyone codes because it looks nice. I'm not sure that "everyone" codes that way. Just lo…
  • This is good and all, but who approved that writing? Awful copy \.
  • One thing I could imagine would be a simulation of the feeling you get when you lightly brush your fingers across your keyboard. Try it. Then, once you feel the button you want to hit, you can hit it harder. I am reminded by Human-Computer Interacti…
  • Quote: Originally posted by rok okay, excuse this if it's a dumb response... um, how? i thought ink was meant ostensibly as text and command input... do you mean if you are already using a tablet as your primary means of input, you don't have …
  • Quote: Originally posted by Imergingenious uuuuuummmmm....... funhouse took only 1 guy a few weeks to write, and in the area of filters, it blows photoshop away. if apple put together a development team to work on a photoshop killer, it wou…
  • I also have used it two or three times without complaint but I don't think that sites like Paypal Sucks are not completely unfounded. These people have real issues with PayPal. I think the thing is that PayPal won't go out of it's way to screw you i…
  • Sorry to bump this thread back up, but it seems like Apple is introducing something interesting with Safari : Quote: Save and Email Web Pages Now you can view Web pages long after they disappear from the Web, complete with images and links, usin…
  • To get an idea:
  • Quote: Originally posted by stupider...likeafox I've never seen web spellchecking done in the way .mac works, but then I've never used Yahoo mail so I can't really comment.. I can't tell.. have you used Gmail yet? How exactly does .mac's spell…
  • I think the page saving issue has been pretty much explained... so I'll tackle the "Safari's 3 day history" problem I was just checking out Cocktail today and noticed an option for Safari... Which seems to explain the phenomenon... some p…
  • Quote: Originally posted by Aquatic I don't want to save a page as a PDF. Besides the fact that I hate PDF with a passion now that it's used for everything, doing this defeats the purpose of the Internet basically. I want the page as it is. Ex…
  • Quote: Originally posted by Vox Barbara The html rendering machine of any given browser will be the bottleneck for a long time to come. Rendering engines are fairly fast and usually take less than a second on most pages. Although there are ex…
  • I'd have to second eBay.. I had never used it before and on my first eBay sale (selling my old 1GHz TiBook G4) everything went pretty smoothly and I got a much better price than I was expecting, considering how long I took to sell it. If you choose …
  • Quote: Originally posted by MacCrazy iMac G3s have USB! - Original iMacs barely work under Panther so under 10.4 they will be so slow! Remember they're six years old. What's with the reasoning that Tiger will get slower? Haven't OS X releases…