Categories » ‘Technology’Apple Developer Support – WTF?October 11th, 2011 by JCBakerOK, I know that some people expect Apple to go to pot with the loss of their main visionary, Steve Jobs, but SO SOON? I recently submitted an app to the App Store and requested promo codes to enable me to give free copies to reviewers. Every time I tried, I would get an error message telling me to email support, so I did:
PM Gone Wrong – The “Offsite”March 14th, 2011 by CmputrAceI got this note from a friend who was on a project that was out of control. This is one example. I’m really torn about this… There are over 250 hourly contractors on this IT project of about 450 people that are being required to attend three-day offsite meeting by the contracting company. This wouldn’t be a problem except that: Gateway Tablet PC C140XL – A Review AFTER two yearsMarch 9th, 2011 by CmputrAceGateway Model: C140XL with Fingerprint reader I purchased this Tablet PC in January 2008, and of all the laptops I have ever had, I have to say that this has been the closest to my ideal Portable Do-It-All Information Management Device of all the laptops / notebooks / PDAs I have ever owned, and I have owned a LOT. The Origin of the Buddy ListMarch 9th, 2011 by CmputrAceDid you ever wonder who actually invented the “buddy list” that has become so ubiquitous on computers worldwide? I guess it was a couple of years ago while chatting with a “buddy” who I have known online since 1987 that it hit me: I invented the “buddy list”!The documentation for AOTools tells the story about how I got the idea.Quick note: The documentation shown here is for the last version of AOTools that I released in 1992 to work with AOL v.2. I created the first AOTools for AOL v.1 with all the same features. The first version worked on Windows 3.0, and I initially developed it using a beta version of Visual Basic. I was an early beta tester for several Microsoft projects.
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