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Microsoft’s mobile device strategy – a suggestion

September 28, 2010January 2, 2017 Andy 0 Comments android, ios, Microsoft, mobile os, windows 7, windows phone 7

For Windows to have any chance of competing with Android and iOS, Microsoft should rethink their strategy on the tablet/slate

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Java Programming 

Oracle owning Java means death for the latter

August 24, 2010January 2, 2017 Andy 0 Comments oracle clojure java android

I have always felt, despite the competition coming from .Net and the great strides made by the CLR, that Java’s

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iOS 

iPhone – Why you’re getting excessive data billing

February 9, 2010January 2, 2017 Andy 0 Comments data billing, iphone

I just realized tonight why my internet usage billing on the iPhone seems excessive compared to, say, when I was

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Ecommerce Paypal 

Withdrawing USD from Paypal account

February 7, 2010January 2, 2017 Andy 0 Comments paypal usd withdrawal, paypal withdrawal

Paypal now lets you withdraw the balance in your account into your Philippine bank account. Yay! But… the withdrawal has

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Hardware 

Apple Wireless Bluetooth Keyboard – pairing with Windows 7

February 4, 2010January 2, 2017 Andy 0 Comments apple bluetooth keyboard

One of the greatest frustrations I have had with using the Apple Wireless Bluetooth Keyboard with my Modbook is that

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iOS 

iPhone Tip – Playing Audio only for Videos

December 30, 2009January 2, 2017 Andy 0 Comments audio-only, battery power tip, iphone

The iPhone is a very nice device, but one of its many flaws are that it sucks up battery juice

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Programming Web 

Microsoft should replace IE with a CoreCLR-based browser

December 7, 2009January 2, 2017 Andy 0 Comments .net, browser, clr, dotnet, ie

I wrote a blog article a few months back, Microsoft’s 3-front war, Part 1 where I was going to explain

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Linux OS OS X 

Installing Slackware 14.2 and OS X multi-boot on a single hard drive

November 30, 2009January 2, 2017 Andy 0 Comments

This seems to be the simplest way, and relies on using Grub as the main bootloader. 1. First install Hackintosh

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Modbook OS OS X Windows 

Multiple partitions with Windows 7 and OS X side-by-side install

November 15, 2009January 2, 2017 Andy 0 Comments GPT, macbook, MBR, modbook, OS X, partitioning, windows 7

When installing Windows and OS X side by side using Apple’s recommended Boot Camp technique, you can only use one

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OS Programming Windows 

DLL handling in Windows x64: The Big Gotcha

November 7, 2009January 2, 2017 Andy 0 Comments 64-bit Windows, DLLs, Windows 7 x64

I had a nasty time trying to get the PHP module to run under Apache 2.2 in Windows 7 x64. 

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