Apple Product Evolution

A poster Edwin Tofslie created, is making rounds on the web these days! I must admit, it’s rather good! This shows the evolution of Apple products over time. Looking at the poster, I started thinking about what computers I used in those years! I was still on PC AT and XT in 1990. Would get […]

Tip: Combining multiple mp3 files into one

I had multiple mp3 audio tracks of a lecture. They worked fine in iTunes since I could create a playlist and tracks would play one after another. I moved the tracks to my phone to listen to them on the move, but the phone has some weired sorting method that played the tracks in wrong […]

Spotlight search for Thunderbird emails & OpenOffice.org documents

I always wanted a faster and better search for Thunderbird. If I could find content within emails with Spotlight, it would save a lot of trouble. Even more important if I could search in OpenOffice.org documents using Spotlight, it would really be a boon. Browsing around some blogs, I found Dennis’s blog. The blog post […]

iPhone hacking and developers guide

The guys at iPhone Dev Wiki have found a way to get serial access to the iPhone bootloader – without opening the case. Something else from their latest progress report: We know how to unlock the phone. Unfortunately the commands needed gave “Permission Denied” errors. We did find a reference to a hardware register that […]