Posts from Michael Swanberg
Call-Out For Cross-Platform Geeks
Posted by Michael Swanberg on February 24, 2011
I am a mainframe programmer, by trade. A dinosaur? Maybe. But I far more enjoy the PC side of things. I try to do as much as possible on the PC rather than on the mainframe. To that end, I have written tons of Perl and batch scripts to help me in my job, making [...]
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WTF is Apple Thinking?
Posted by Michael Swanberg on February 17, 2011
Unless you’re living under the proverbial rock, you have no doubt heard about Apple’s latest money-stealing… er, money-making scheme.ADHERER Okay, so apparently, Apple has had a rule in their App Store approval system that says that any purchases that an app may use must also be available as an in-app purchase through Apple. So, here’s [...]
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The New AppleTV… Meh
Posted by Michael Swanberg on October 05, 2010
So I got the new AppleTV last Friday. On a lark, I went to the Apple Store in my town and they had 2 left. I got one and the last one flew off the shelf mere minutes after I grabbed mine. Here are my thoughts.ADHERER First, there is a lot of work Apple still [...]
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Is Closed Better?
Posted by Michael Swanberg on June 10, 2010
These days, there is a huge battle of wills between those that believe that Open is better, and those that see the benefits to Closed systems. Which really wins?
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New AT&T Data Plans
Posted by Michael Swanberg on June 02, 2010
Okay, I read the press release... AT&T is definitely trying to stop people from using tons of bandwidth and I can only guess it's because the new iPhone will allow tons of video stuff (chat, streaming, etc.).
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Open Source C#
Posted by Michael Swanberg on May 25, 2010
For any of you who want to program in C#, but can’t afford Visual Studio just to play around, here is a solution.
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LOST “The End”… WTF?
Posted by Michael Swanberg on May 24, 2010
In case you are living under the proverbial rock, LOST had its series finale last night. Was it worth the ride?
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iTunes Wireless Sync
Posted by Michael Swanberg on May 11, 2010
Can iTunes sync over wi-fi and over the cloud?
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Open Letter to the iHater’s
Posted by Michael Swanberg on May 07, 2010
Let's talk about this Apple thing, shall we?
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Google Tasks on the iPad
Posted by Michael Swanberg on May 05, 2010
It seems Google hasn’t added native iPad support for all of their online offerings just yet.
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