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So it turns out all the fan noise that has been driving me nuts for the last couple of months was caused by dust clogging the vents on my ATI X1900XT.  It took more than a few squirts from the compressed air can to get the card sorted. I’m I cheap or is$6.99 a bit [...]

Who needs flash? If you read the engadget & gizmodo forums, you would think flash is the oxygen of the interwebnet and the iPad’s lack of support was some sort of digital sacrilege. There are other voices in the blogosphere though and they chime a resounding NO to flash. Vimeo & Youtube both offer their [...]

Enough clamoring for multitasking already!
What most people care about is fast application switching. Most people can only handle iTunes plus another app simultaneously and the iPad delivers on that front.
Guess what else doesn’t multitask?

Nikon D9000KZX w/ 1.0 – 9000 VR zoom lens.
Playstation 3.
Steinway Piano.
In car navigation system.
Xbox 360 elite.
Desk Lamps.
Nintento Wii/DS.
Movie Theatre. (Don’t count eating [...]

All you whiners on gizmodo and engadget, please use your imagination people!!!
The iPad isn’t here to help you do things the same old way. You need to use your imagination a tad bit to appreciate it. I think its greatest attribute is the fact that it makes computing a lot more casual. One also has [...]

So I finally started on Octopussy. I’ve always found CoreMidi and procedural APIs in general a bit puzzling so I thought I would start with the simplest of tasks to help me demystify it all. My goal was simply to send a MIDI note on message from the Mac to the blofeld.
After perusing MIDIService.h, I [...]