Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Remove Unwanted Firefox Auto-Suggest Entries

February 6, 2010 by Josh Highland  
Filed under internet, linux, mac, tutorials, windows

Remove Unwanted Firefox Auto-Suggest Entries

Firefox 3 is awesome we all know that, but there are some things that that would just be nice to have. One of those things would be the ability to control what appears for the auto suggest when you type in the URL bar.
Most of the time FireFox does a very good job of figuring [...]

follow up to my iPad predictions

January 28, 2010 by Josh Highland  
Filed under Tech, hardware, mac, video

follow up to my iPad predictions

So Apple has announced the iPad. This is a follow up to the predictions  I posted last week.
Things I was right about:

Apple will announce a tablet device
new version of the iPhone OS, 3.2.2
iPad will run on the iPhone OS
iPad will run iPhone applications
The iPad will have a 10 inch screen (9.7 inches is close enough)
16, [...]

iPhone OS 4.0 / iSlate Predictions

January 21, 2010 by Josh Highland  
Filed under Tech, hardware, iPhone, mac, video

iPhone OS 4.0 / iSlate Predictions

RotoPhoto, my first iPhone app

August 18, 2009 by Josh Highland  
Filed under Josh's Rambling, iPhone, mac, software

RotoPhoto, my first iPhone app

WOW, here I am about to release my second iPhone app, and I realized that I haven’t blogged about my first iPhone app!
“RotoPhoto” is my first iPhone app. It’s a simple tool that allows you to rotate the orientation of a photo taken with the iPhone. The internal sensors of the iPhone are designed to [...]

I upgraded my mac!

August 7, 2009 by Josh Highland  
Filed under hacks, hardware, mac, tutorials

I upgraded my mac!

A few months ago I bought a Mac mini so I could start to develop iPhone applications. I must say that I am growing to be more of a Mac user then I thought i would be. I purposly bought a cheap Mac to get started with, but I’m starting to regret it. One of [...]

Info on the new iPhone has leaked

May 13, 2009 by Josh Highland  
Filed under hardware, iPhone, mac

Info on the new iPhone has leaked

I have been keeping my ears open for rumors about the new iPhone. Earlier this week, the above image was leaked onto a mac rumors website from a chinese source.
The image above shows a new iPhone model number “MB717LL” with 32GB of Storage. If the poster’s claims are to be believed, the new iPhone will [...]

no place like home (and end keys) on a mac

March 19, 2009 by Josh Highland  
Filed under hacks, hardware, mac, software, windows

no place like home (and end keys) on a mac

I never noticed how often I use the “home” and “end” keys when I type until they were taken away from me. I am a programmer by trade, and as a result, I type code all day long. On a PC the end key will take you to the end of a line, and the [...]

I got a mac

March 16, 2009 by Josh Highland  
Filed under Josh's Rambling, hardware, iPhone, mac

I got a mac

As part of my 2009 new years resolutions, I’m going to write an iPhone application and launch it this year. I realized that the first quarter of the year is almost over and I haven’t made any progress on this. The biggest hurdle was the development platform. I’ve tried to install Mac OS X onto [...]

iPhone 2.1 SMS Reminder Annoyances

October 6, 2008 by Josh Highland  
Filed under hardware, iPhone, mac, software

iPhone 2.1 SMS Reminder Annoyances

There was a new feature introduced with the iPhone 2.1 firmware update that is driving me crazy and making me curse apple an my iPhone daily. I am talking about the SMS multi reminder.
The SMS multi reminder is designed to notify you with an alert if you have an unread SMS (text) message. Sounds good [...]

My Media Center Died, Time For A New One

June 29, 2008 by Josh Highland  
Filed under Josh's Rambling, hardware, linux, mac, software, windows

My Media Center Died, Time For A New One

I have blogged about it before, I have a HTPC (home theatre pc) running in my living room, hooked to my TV. I started off with MythTV, but settled on Window Media Center 2005.
When I first built the Media Center machine, I had basic cable, with no DVR, so I let the media center handle [...]

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