Having upgraded one of my blogs to WordPress 2.5, I’ve discovered that if you’re relying on the WPG2 Gallery2 plugin you’ll probably want to wait until it’s updated, because the plugin is incompatible with WordPress 2.5. I’ve also had to disable the Advanced Admin Menus plugin as it seemed to hide all the menus.
Month: March 2008
Apple Java job
From Apple’s java mailing list:Â
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We are looking for a talented, passionate and motivated engineer to join the Java team. Java expertise, of course, is important, but C and Objective-C (Cocoa) are also essential since you will be working on the frameworks underneath AWT and Swing. If you or anyone you know is interested, please do apply. This is an opportunity to have a serious impact on the Mac OS X Java implementation, and start a career at Apple.You can find out more by clicking this link, or by searching apple.com/jobs for Requisition ID 3489430.Â
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The tennis shoes wore computers
Before there was the Nike+iPod there were the Puma RS computer tennis shoes with inbuilt pedometers that plugged into your Apple ][
iPhone flip?
Unwired View takes a look at an Apple patent for a multitouch enabled double sided flip feature on an (i)phone.
Security update breaks ssh?
Apple’s Security Update 2008-002 seems to break ssh based utilities, causing them to bus error when run. There is some discussion on the Apple support forum.
Free guitar game
If you haven’t seen it already, check out Frets On Fire. May be more playable with an external keyboard so you can pretend it’s an axe 🙂
RetrospectX Beta released
EMC Insignia (nee Dantz) have released a beta test version of RetrospectX (codenamed “Unicorn”) client and server for the Mac. Users need their existing Retrospect licence key to use the beta. The Mac client and server are universal binaries.
AUC announces 2008 Honours Scholarship winners
The Australian Apple University Consortium has announced the 2008 AUC Honours Scholarship recipients who will receive AU$4000 during their honours year. The UWA winner will leveraging FSEvent notifications 🙂
Mac Mini Pro, or is it Pro Mac Mini?
Pictures of a very cool hack, creating a Mac Pro enclosure to fit a Mac Mini.
Build Lego on your iPhone or iPod Touch
Check out the Lego-touch application for building Lego on your iPhone or iPod Touch.