Tyler Weir

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• Tyler 3:19 pm on January 9, 2007 Permalink  

  OMG iPhone 

  

  Must buy.

  I have a concern about the cost of the monthly plan. I assume that you’d want unlimited data access as the iPhone has so much net functionality that you won’t truly experience it unless it’s all you-can-eat data.

  I should do a rate comparison
  Bell: $100/Month, 250megs
  Fido: N/A
  Rogers: 100/Month, 200megs

  Ouch, being all cool in the future is going to be expensive.

  iPhone wiki page.

  In other Mac news, my brother received a MacBook from his wife as a birthday present. Go Andrea. So that’s my whole family with Macs. Hell yes!

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  • todd 3:29 pm on January 10, 2007 Permalink

    My guess is that you will have to live with the Rogers price as I doubt Apple will make a CDMA version that would be compatible with Bell’s network…

  • Tyler Weir 10:38 pm on January 10, 2007 Permalink

    Boo Rogers… Boo.

  • drew 10:58 am on January 11, 2007 Permalink

    Did you hear the collective gasps of everyone when Jobs pulled that thing out?

  • Tyler Weir 11:04 am on January 11, 2007 Permalink

    I haven’t watched the Keynote yet. I was following along with the live blogs.

• Tyler 3:03 pm on December 31, 2006 Permalink  

  Loot 

  I’m rocking out to a Bose SoundDock thanks to Laura.
  

  And I’ll be the coolest kid on the turf/field thanks to the Gaia Field Bag from my brother and sister-in-law.
  

   

• Tyler 10:34 am on December 20, 2006 Permalink  

  Visual Studio on Parallels / Red Steel. 

  After installing Parallels on my MacBook Pro I installed Visual Studio C# Express to see how it would perform. Without any sort of metrics I’ll say that it seemed faster than my T60, notably compilation appeared to be much faster.

  Laura rented Red Steel for the Wii. Um.. I burned through the first two levels and the entire time I was fighting with the controls. It’s not a bad game, in fact, it’s quite good for a launch title. I think that more time with the controller and more time on the cut scenes and this game would have been great. As it is, the control scheme knocked me out of the experience.

   

• Tyler 11:37 pm on December 18, 2006 Permalink  

  Parallels: Windows on my Mac 

  I have Windows XP running on my MacBook Pro thanks to Parallels.

  It’s pretty cool, but feels…. odd.

   

• Tyler 1:33 pm on December 11, 2006 Permalink  

  Mac news that impacts me. And maybe you. But probably not. I don’t know. Maybe. 

  Mac News:
  1. Our friend Jill just got a MacBook. Another joins the flock!
  2. MacHeist is offering an excellent software bundle for a ridonkulous price. There is a fevered discussion on Gus’ site, right here.
  3. CocoaBlogs is up and running, tracking the blogs of cocoa developers. I did a lot of Cocoa development this weekend.

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  • Jack 3:15 pm on December 11, 2006 Permalink

    hooray, Jill joins the cult!

• Tyler 1:43 pm on December 2, 2006 Permalink  

  OS X tips on the quick. 

  Getting a Mac after going without for a bit longer than a year leads to me forgetting how to do a few Mac specific and Unix specific things. Thankfully, the intertubes has all the answers I was looking for.

  1) Setting $JAVA_HOME
  James Duncan Davidson tells us how to set JAVA_HOME correctly. I’m doing some Grails, Groovy and Scala work, so this was important.

  2) Setting $PS1
  If you use the terminal you might as well make it pretty. Daniel Robbins of Gentoo Linux fame has a great write up on ibm.com/developer regarding this.

  3) Configuring ls to output colours.
  Drunken Batman offers a simple tutorial to do this. I never remember to update the man pages for the ls I compile, so it’s great that it’s outlined here.

   

• Tyler 5:24 pm on November 25, 2006 Permalink  

  MacBook Pro 

  
  
  
  The MacBook Pro has a built-in camera.

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  • cc 10:18 am on November 27, 2006 Permalink

    to pick or not to pick….

  • Tyler 10:20 am on November 27, 2006 Permalink

    Hhaha..

  • drew 2:00 pm on November 29, 2006 Permalink

    I don’t know what made me think of this today. Remember second year when we went to the P.J. parade and never told any of the first years cause it was “tradition,” and when we were running from one spot on the route to the next, Hash wiped out when he was taking a corner?

    Memories

    p.s. that screen makes your face look blue.

  • Tyler 5:16 pm on November 29, 2006 Permalink

    I remember everything about the PJ Parade.

  • scott 10:05 am on December 1, 2006 Permalink

    PJ Parade … you bastards!!!

  • randy 12:11 am on December 9, 2006 Permalink

    haha “tradition”. you guys were jerks.

  • erin 3:12 pm on December 10, 2006 Permalink

    personally i enjoy the “fat” picture that you took with your macbook :)

• Tyler 2:03 pm on November 24, 2006 Permalink  

  MacBook Pro: the giant slab edition. 

  Hopefully, at this time tomorrow I’ll be typing away on a new 17inch MacBook Pro. I traded in my Dual G5 about a year ago and I’ll be applying that credit to this beast.

  I’m looking forward to “coming home.” I miss applications like QuickSilver and Voodoo Pad. And a real terminal. And a lot of other things.

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  • randy 8:38 pm on November 24, 2006 Permalink

    does that thing come with wheels on the bottom and a retractable handle?

  • Tyler 10:38 pm on November 24, 2006 Permalink

    It comes with coupons for a chiropractor.

• Tyler 9:04 pm on November 12, 2006 Permalink  

  MacAppADay 

  There’s been a number of Mac-app focused contests/promotion sites recently.

  Maczot – The oldest, I’ve bought a few apps from this site already.
  MyDreamApp – The people’s contest to have your dream app built.
  MacHeist – By the dudes behind MyDreamApp, solve a mystery, get some apps.
  And the most recently live, MacAppADay. This is the easiest one. Go to the site every day in December and get an app. Done and done.

   

• Tyler 11:06 am on August 23, 2006 Permalink  

  MyDreamApp: A buffet of app ideas. 

  Phil Ryu is running MyDreamApp, which is like American Idol meets software development. It sounds like a great idea to me.

  What sounds even better is trolling the forums and picking up an idea and developing it yourself.

  Three ideas are picked and turned into products and right now there are 1400+ ideas submitted. Seems like a large number of good ideas would be available.