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PBX My name is Paul Bissex, and e-scribe.com is my consulting business. I build web applications using as much open source software as possible. From September to June I teach web design and other important non-photographic professional skills to photographers. In the '90s I wrote technology commentary and reviews for magazines, newspapers, and web publications, including Wired, Salon.com, FamilyPC, the late lamented Web Review, and the Chicago Tribune. Feel free to email me.

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43 posts tagged "apple"

The iPhone keyboard doesn't suck
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
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Latest iPhone SDK bug reports
Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
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iPod touch: one week down, one week to go
Monday, February 25th, 2008
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A farewell to Palms (hello, iPod touch)
Sunday, February 17th, 2008
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Full-screen QuickTime
Wednesday, August 8th, 2007
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iPhone hacking
Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007
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Playing with the Terminal
Sunday, April 8th, 2007
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iPhone, youPhone, weallPhone
Friday, February 23rd, 2007
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Steve Jobs to Music Industry: Drop DRM
Tuesday, February 6th, 2007
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Was the old Mac a hacker's machine?
Tuesday, January 16th, 2007
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What is the iPhone running, really?
Tuesday, January 9th, 2007
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New MacBook Pro
Tuesday, October 24th, 2006
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Obsolescence
Thursday, September 14th, 2006
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Apple battery recall
Thursday, August 24th, 2006
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Mac OS Forge
Friday, August 11th, 2006
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A different kind of switching
Friday, July 21st, 2006
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Yahoo offers DRM-free music, sort of
Friday, July 21st, 2006
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Textcasting?
Friday, May 26th, 2006
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The MacBook
Tuesday, May 16th, 2006
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Score one for Dell, sort of
Tuesday, May 2nd, 2006
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MacBook Pro speed bumps
Tuesday, February 14th, 2006
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Songbird, open source competition for iTunes
Wednesday, February 8th, 2006
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Which PalmOS is really next?
Thursday, February 2nd, 2006
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AppleWorks, R.I.P.
Tuesday, January 24th, 2006
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Great open source apps for the Mac
Monday, January 23rd, 2006
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Web Inspector, a DOM inspector for WebKit
Friday, January 20th, 2006
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ExpressCard: what it is
Tuesday, January 17th, 2006
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Best feature of the new MacBook Pro
Thursday, January 12th, 2006
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Google jobs for Mac developers
Wednesday, December 21st, 2005
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Wozniak pro-open-source comments
Saturday, December 10th, 2005
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PowerBook "Safe Sleep"
Saturday, November 12th, 2005
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Death to QuickTime Pro
Friday, October 28th, 2005
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Adobe blogs Aperture
Monday, October 24th, 2005
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Aperture
Wednesday, October 19th, 2005

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Google wants Mac developers
Thursday, October 13th, 2005
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Gruber on the new Apple products
Thursday, October 13th, 2005

A modest proposal for the recording industry
Tuesday, October 11th, 2005
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Mining Monday: the hardware collection
Monday, October 3rd, 2005
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Gruber on AppleScript
Tuesday, September 27th, 2005
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Apple Store using Ajax
Monday, September 26th, 2005
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Mac troubleshooting tips + bonus rant
Wednesday, August 24th, 2005
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PyObjC in, Cocoa-Java out
Wednesday, August 17th, 2005
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Palm/Mac sync woes
Tuesday, August 16th, 2005
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