Posted by: Søren
in Gadgets on Oct 12, 2009
I have been using Apple's Mighty Mouse for the last 4 years. During this period I have had 2 of them. And now I actually need to get a third one. But I am not going to buy my third Mighty Mouse from Apple. I am normally a sucker for Apple products, but in relation to the Mighty Mouse I am very disappointed.
First of all the Mouse is way to expensive compared to other substantial products. I appreciate the design of the Mighty Mouse, but I am much more interested in functionality and stability. 2 things you actually won't get with the Mighty Mouse. The scroll function is after some month of use, useless. I had to clean my Mighty Mouse every third day after 3 days of use. I used my mouse a lot, but it is still very disappointing.
Posted by: Søren
in Software on Aug 28, 2009
Today I installed the newest version of Mac OS X on my Macbook Pro 17. The new version is named Mac OS X Snow Leopard and it runs actually very fast. In this version of Mac OS X Apple focused on usability + speed and not so much on innovation/new programmes and features etc.
To be honest I find this very attractive. Speed is the most important thing to me. The Finder has been completely rewritten in Cocoa to take advantage of all the modern technologies in Mac OS X, including 64-bit support and Grand Central Dispatch. My computer is not running 64-bit, but I am very pleased with the speed my on my Macbook Pro 17.
Posted by: Søren
in Software on Aug 23, 2009
Need a full-screen web browser for Mac Os X? Read on:
What is Plainview?
Posted by: Søren
in Technology on Aug 05, 2009
A rising interest in mobile browsing on iPhones has increased the demand for mobile optimized websites. From a business point of view there are many reasons to have an eye on this trend. The mobile generation consumer segment is rapidly rising in Europe. This trend is mainly driven by smartphones and especially Apple's iPhone (Source: Børsen). To meet this development a lot of companys need to get themselves an iPhone/mobile website - a least to make a buzz out of themselves.
Having developed my own iPhone optimized website I have been forced to take some controversial decisions. Can you force a internet browser to redirect him/her to another website automatically? Well. Depends on many things. After all I decided to give the user the opportunity to make the decision themselves - either to watch an website in an iPhone optimized version or in a full version. If you do not want to give the user this option, but just want to redirect an iPhone user directly. Well. Take a look on the scripts below:
Posted by: Søren
in Gadgets on Mar 29, 2009
My absence from my blog for the last month or so is because I am kind of busy with a lot of stuff. 1: Finishing my master thesis, 2: training for Copenhagen Marathon 2009, 3: Creating an iPhone optimized edition of ornholt.dk. 4: Working on various online projects. 5: iPhone reasons. This blogpost is about reason number 5:
Now it is a fact that I am not a firstmover (If I ever really was:-)). Why? I got myself an iPhone 3G 16 GB in black. Being kind of feed up with the hype of the iPhone I actually think it is nice.
Posted by: Søren
in Software on Feb 25, 2009
Apple introduced the Safari 4 Beta web browser yesterday. I already installed it and it is super fast and has a lot of improvements. In performance test the new Safari web browser is said to be more than 42 times faster than Internet Explorer.
Read more about Safari's speed here. If you are a mac-user or windows user..go get it here. In my opinion it is the best web browser out there. The web browser "war" is continuing and Internet Explorer is still the king.
Posted by: Søren
in Business on Jan 14, 2009
In summer 2008 I read a rather commercial book about the founder of Apple; Steve Jobs. The bio is named The Greatest Second Act in the History of Business. I found the book pretty entertaining and realized how great/crazy a businessman/marketing man Steve Jobs is.
He founded Apple Computers and when Apple - 10 years ago were suffering from decreasing sale and bad products Steve came back and turned the whole business around. The rest is history (iMac, iPod, iPhone, iTunes etc). Apple has never been in better shape than today and in spite of worldwide financial crises Apple is still going strong.
Posted by: Søren
in Branding on Sep 28, 2008
I found this very nice (legible "sunday reading") and informative article about Apple on Weendavisens (Weekend newspaper) website. The article deal with Apple as a brand and how loyal mac users are. Last year I followed a course on Copenhagen Business School called "Symbolic Consumption And Identity" where I wrote an assignment about Apple and "Symbolic Consumption And Identity" . And this is, among other, what this article is about.
The article is actually written in danish, but I translated it into english using Google's translate service, which explain some of the translation is in "danish". If you want to read it in danish you can find it here (pdf)
Enjoy
Posted by: Søren
in Software on Sep 11, 2008
If you are a Mac user and for some reason have a Hotmail account (There is not a lot after all) and want to use this account with Apple's superiour Mail application here is the solution:
1: Download this plugin. Choose the version matching your Mac Os X - Panther, Tiger or Leopard.
