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PBX I'm Paul Bissex, and e-scribe.com is my consulting business. I build web applications using open source software, especially Django. In the '90s I did graphic design for newspapers and magazines. Then I wrote technology commentary and reviews for Wired, Salon.com, Chicago Tribune, and lots of little places you've never heard of. Feel free to email me.

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45 posts tagged "apple"

Chess via iPod
Monday, May 11th, 2009
apple + fun + games + iphone + mobile
2 comments

iPod touch: holding steady
Friday, October 17th, 2008
apple + hardware + iphone + mobile + open source

The iPhone keyboard doesn't suck
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
apple + design + hardware + interface + iphone + mobile + rants + the well + vcs + writing
2 comments

Latest iPhone SDK bug reports
Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
apple + business + iphone + open source + programming
1 comment

iPod touch: one week down, one week to go
Monday, February 25th, 2008
adobe + apple + design + hardware + iphone + mobile + programming

A farewell to Palms (hello, iPod touch)
Sunday, February 17th, 2008
apple + hardware + mobile + palm
2 comments

Full-screen QuickTime
Wednesday, August 8th, 2007
apple + business
1 comment

iPhone hacking
Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007
apple + hardware + iphone

Playing with the Terminal
Sunday, April 8th, 2007
apple + os x

iPhone, youPhone, weallPhone
Friday, February 23rd, 2007
apple + fun + hardware + iphone + mobile
1 comment

Steve Jobs to Music Industry: Drop DRM
Tuesday, February 6th, 2007
apple + intellectual property + media

Was the old Mac a hacker's machine?
Tuesday, January 16th, 2007
apple + hardware
2 comments

What is the iPhone running, really?
Tuesday, January 9th, 2007
apple + hardware + iphone + mobile + os x + unix

New MacBook Pro
Tuesday, October 24th, 2006
apple + hardware

Obsolescence
Thursday, September 14th, 2006
apple + fun + hardware

Apple battery recall
Thursday, August 24th, 2006
apple + hardware

Mac OS Forge
Friday, August 11th, 2006
apple + open source + os x

A different kind of switching
Friday, July 21st, 2006
apple + linux + os x + ubuntu

Yahoo offers DRM-free music, sort of
Friday, July 21st, 2006
apple + intellectual property + risks

Textcasting?
Friday, May 26th, 2006
apple + feeds + media

The MacBook
Tuesday, May 16th, 2006
apple + hardware
5 comments

Score one for Dell, sort of
Tuesday, May 2nd, 2006
apple + hardware + linux
2 comments

MacBook Pro speed bumps
Tuesday, February 14th, 2006
apple + hardware

Songbird, open source competition for iTunes
Wednesday, February 8th, 2006
apple + intellectual property + media + music + open source
1 comment

Which PalmOS is really next?
Thursday, February 2nd, 2006
apple + linux + palm

AppleWorks, R.I.P.
Tuesday, January 24th, 2006
apple + os x
7 comments

Great open source apps for the Mac
Monday, January 23rd, 2006
apple + open source + os x

Web Inspector, a DOM inspector for WebKit
Friday, January 20th, 2006
apple + browsers + open source + web development

ExpressCard: what it is
Tuesday, January 17th, 2006
apple + hardware

Best feature of the new MacBook Pro
Thursday, January 12th, 2006
apple + fun + hardware
4 comments

Google jobs for Mac developers
Wednesday, December 21st, 2005
apple + google
1 comment

Wozniak pro-open-source comments
Saturday, December 10th, 2005
apple + open source

PowerBook "Safe Sleep"
Saturday, November 12th, 2005
apple + os x

Death to QuickTime Pro
Friday, October 28th, 2005
apple + rants
1 comment

Adobe blogs Aperture
Monday, October 24th, 2005
adobe + apple
1 comment

Aperture
Wednesday, October 19th, 2005
apple
3 comments

Google wants Mac developers
Thursday, October 13th, 2005
apple + google + os x

Gruber on the new Apple products
Thursday, October 13th, 2005
apple

A modest proposal for the recording industry
Tuesday, October 11th, 2005
apple + intellectual property

Mining Monday: the hardware collection
Monday, October 3rd, 2005
apple + hardware + site

Gruber on AppleScript
Tuesday, September 27th, 2005
apple + os x

Apple Store using Ajax
Monday, September 26th, 2005
ajax + apple

Mac troubleshooting tips + bonus rant
Wednesday, August 24th, 2005
apple + os x + rants

PyObjC in, Cocoa-Java out
Wednesday, August 17th, 2005
apple + java + os x + python
2 comments

Palm/Mac sync woes
Tuesday, August 16th, 2005
apple + os x + palm
1 comment

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