jkOnTheRun Fifth Annual Geek Holiday Gift Guide

Posted on December 17th, 2008 by admin
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It's time (past time really) for the jkOnTheRun Fifth Annual Geek Holiday Gift Guide to help you find the cool and unusual gifts for that geek in your life.  I had to stop and look at that again, yes, it's the Fifth Annual guide!  That's a lot of years in blog years.  We've scanned the [...]

Quanta demonstrates “look ma, no hands!” touch capabilities for Windows 7

Posted on December 14th, 2008 by admin
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Although it's just an early beta, Windows 7 shows much promise and desirable features. One of this is the integrated support for multi-touch control and some hardware manufacturers are wasting no time in taking advantage of touch. Even when there's no smudgy touching at all. Take Quanta, for example.
DigiTimes says that at WinHEC Taipei, the [...]

How to modify Mac multi-touch gestures in Firefox 3.1b2

Posted on December 14th, 2008 by admin
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Ever since we found out that the latest Firefox 3.1 beta for Mac supports multi-touch trackpad gestures, I've been giving my fingers a work out. Just as a refresher, here are the commands that are natively supported:
- 3 finger swipe Left: Go back in history (hold Cmd to open it in a tab)
- 3 finger [...]

I'm taking my phone off “the grid”, who's with me?

Posted on December 14th, 2008 by admin
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It's about time for another crazy mobile experiment. Last time was my 60-day "web-challenge" where I tried to use only a browser for my daily computing tasks. It went quite well, but indicated to me that web services still have plenty of room to mature. So what's the new challenge? This one fits in with [...]

I'm taking my phone off “the grid”, who's with me?

Posted on December 12th, 2008 by admin
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It's about time for another crazy mobile experiment. Last time was my 60-day "web-challenge" where I tried to use only a browser for my daily computing tasks. It went quite well, but indicated to me that web services still have plenty of room to mature. So what's the new challenge? This one fits in with [...]

How to modify Mac multi-touch gestures in Firefox 3.1b2

Posted on December 11th, 2008 by admin
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Ever since we found out that the latest Firefox 3.1 beta for Mac supports multi-touch trackpad gestures, I've been giving my fingers a work out. Just as a refresher, here are the commands that are natively supported:
- 3 finger swipe Left: Go back in history (hold Cmd to open it in a tab)
- 3 finger [...]

Quanta demonstrates “look ma, no hands!” touch capabilities for Windows 7

Posted on December 11th, 2008 by admin
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Although it's just an early beta, Windows 7 shows much promise and desirable features. One of this is the integrated support for multi-touch control and some hardware manufacturers are wasting no time in taking advantage of touch. Even when there's no smudgy touching at all. Take Quanta, for example.
DigiTimes says that at WinHEC Taipei, the [...]

Apple- buy a Mac and save on taxes

Posted on December 10th, 2008 by admin
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How do you sell computers at a premium price in this down economy?  Apple has the answer and just shared it with me via email:

Apple- buy a Mac and save on taxes

Posted on December 10th, 2008 by admin
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How do you sell computers at a premium price in this down economy?  Apple has the answer and just shared it with me via email:

GetJar: Merry Christmas Steve Jobs

Posted on December 5th, 2008 by admin
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Press release speaks for itself:
Merry Christmas Steve, from Everyone at GetJar Networks

LONDON, December 3, 2008: GetJar Networks, the world’s most popular mobile application distribution and developer community, today thanked everyone in Apple’s marketing department for helping to put mobile applications on the map.
Ilja Laurs, CEO of GetJar, said: “As a small private company we have [...]