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Archive for February, 2006
3bubbles is live on braytek!
28 Feb 2006i’m part of the 3bubbles beta on braytek! look under each post for a link that says “live chat” to use to feature. if you notice any problems at all, please by all means let me know asap so that i can contact the developers. enjoy! Technorati Tags: 3bubbles
apple new stuff reactions
28 Feb 2006well overall i’m disappointed at apple’s new announcements: new macminis – overpriced in my opinion, especially with only 512MB ram. even with the speed improvements, putting the 1.67 core duo @800 dollars base price is too much. they should have put a tv tuner in there. it makes absolutely no sense to keep the imac [...]
links for 2006-02-28
In: delicious links
27 Feb 2006Regular-Expressions.info – Regex Tutorial, Examples and Reference – Regexp Patterns Something useful for home and work. (tags: braytek regex reference regexp tutorial articles coolsites) Using Ruby on Rails for Web Development on Mac OS X Apple’s own tutorial on the subject (tags: ruby rubyonrails braytek software development tutorials coding mac macintosh osx apple) Logahead – [...]
braytek podcast episode 034
In: podcasts
24 Feb 2006listen to the show! braytek_episode034.mp3 [9MB 00:12:37 96kbps] TeleYapper. Apple Event Feb 28th. TextPayMe (Sign up to help braytek provide an Xbox360 for raffle!) show notes in HTML or OPML subscribe to the podcast feed or go mobile with mobilcast! please take time to complete my survey! let us know how to improve! add yourself [...]
macbook pro cinebench results
In: apple|macbookpro|macintosh
21 Feb 2006got a request to do this over at macnn forums. thought i’d share the results with you here update: just got some perspective on these results: Athlon FX-60 (2.8GHz): 692 Intel Pentium 955 EE (3.46GHz): 666 Athlon64 X2-4800+ (2.4GHz): 638 Intel Pentium 840D (3.2GHz): 532 MacBook Pro (2.0GHz): 563 Technorati Tags: macbookpro
macbook pro xbench results
In: apple|macbookpro|macintosh
21 Feb 2006i just ran a quick xbench on the macbook pro, here are the results. score: 63.56 update: per user comment, i disabled quartz beam sync and reran the test. results are here. new score: 80.16 It should be noted that XBench is not optimized for the intel platform and these numbers should be looked at [...]
macbook pro hath arrived
In: apple|macbookpro|macintosh
21 Feb 2006yup, to my surprise it arrived this morning. i have posted some initial pictures over at flickr. check em out: very good initial impressions. of course, it smokes everything in my house (all G4s). i tried running coconutbattery to get some indication of the max battery capacity/life, but the app crashed. darn. look for much [...]
ready for macbook pro/intel switch?
In: apple|macbookpro|macintosh
20 Feb 2006am i really ready to switch my mac experience to the intel platform? i compiled a list of my most used applications on osx, and determined whether they were universal binary or rosetta emulation. out of my 24 most used applications, 14 were universal binaries and 10 were rosetta emulation. only one i could confirm [...]
