Category Archives: Technology

HTML 5 Now

By Eric Peacock | Published: June 12, 2010

The big difference with HTML 5 compared to HTML 3 or 4 is that it’s still in draft form yet already supported in many browsers. Then you have to consider that HTML5 gets mentioned in mainstream tech news, partly thanks to Flash issues with mobile devices or more specifically the Adobe vs Apple spat. I [...]

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iPad Irony

By Eric Peacock | Published: May 18, 2010

As seen within the masthead on Boing Boing.

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UDP Port 4310

By Eric Peacock | Published: April 24, 2010

Who would’ve thought that I’d have to open up UDP port 4310 on a Sonicwall firewall to get IMAP working on a new Windows Server 2008r2? All was fine with the same server software on an old Windows 2000 Server behind the same firewall. We’re talking about moving a DNS record and a few gigabytes [...]

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Make a Bootable OS X USB Flash Drive With SuperDuper

By Eric Peacock | Published: April 8, 2010

If you have an Intel-based Macintosh computer, a copy of the excellent SuperDuper ($27.95) from Shirtpocket and a 5 GB or greater USB flash drive, you can easily create a faster bootable copy of any Mac OS X installer disc. It’s easy: Format the flash drive with Disk Utility making sure to select GUID from [...]

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The iPad Versus Flash

By Eric Peacock | Published: February 4, 2010

The iPad is revealed. And there is a wave of whining, excitement, confusion and PR spin like you’ve never seen. Like it’s older and smaller brothers, the iPhone and iPod Touch, the iPad doesn’t allow the Flash plug-in to run within the included Mobile Safari browser. This was a hot topic with the iPhone, but [...]

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The State of Video Playback for Mac OSX Users

By Eric Peacock | Published: December 17, 2009

This is a quick little post inspired mostly by the comments to this news item regarding the open source VLC project. I’m sure I’ll want to refine and update it later, but right now I felt the need to jot this down. I won’t get into ripping, transcoding or conversion, this is all about playback. [...]

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Upgrade Season 2009

By Eric Peacock | Published: July 23, 2009

While I was at work today I noticed a tweet that ever so casually mentioned that Apple announced, nay, was shipping both Final Cut Studio and Logic Studio upgrades. So I’m like “woot” and spent part of my lunch scanning what’s new. There are a lot of joyous tweets and surprised blog posts, all fo [...]

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The Floppy Isn’t Dead…

By Eric Peacock | Published: April 29, 2009

…until Microsoft updates the “save” icon in their Office suite toolbars.

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