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A Modern Programming Operating System [Part 2]

[Please also check out Part 1 [http://slakinski.com/a-modern-programming-operating-system/]] In this new post about a modern programming operating system I'm going to comment on what a flood of people gave me in the comments on the post and on Hacker News [http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=

A Modern Programming Operating System

I was reminiscing about my childhood and computers in comparison to what my own children have. How booting up the Vic20 and later the C128 and being presented with nothing more than a blue screen and a flashing cursor prompting me to type in some basic code. I could save

Podcasting on the iPhone/iPod Touch

It looks like we are all going to get Podcasts over the air via the iPhone/iPod Touch [http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/06/apple-adds-ota-podcast-downloads-to-iphone-firmware-2-2-continu/] in the very near future and thats both good news and bad news. A while ago a 3rd party developer released an app to

What I think Web 3.0 Will Be

I have a different take on what Web 3.0 will be. Some think its an edited version of wisdom of crowds (the basis of web 2.0), and that's already happening especially at the company I work for Mahalo [http://www.mahalo.com]. If you look at

iPod Touch Blogging

Wow this is pretty cool when you get good blogging software for a devicethat fits in the palm of your hand :) granted I could blog from my old palm 3 but it was never this easy!

More On The MacBook Random Shutdown

It appears that the MacBook Random Shutdown bug has its own website [http://macbookrandomshutdown.com/]! You know when an issue has gone from bad to worse when the issue gets its own website :( On the site is a description of why it occurs in the first place, stories from users

Add me to the list...

5 times now has my MacBook randomly shutdown. Luckily I was never in the middle of doing any real work -- its usually right when I boot up or wake it from sleep. But still it should never happen in the first place. I'm actually going to just

Origami From Microsoft

Wow, Microsoft came up with a useable tablet computer! And on top of that it looks like they took some design nods from Apple -- make it simple. Check out the leaked promo video here [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rV1WGDW37c0&search=project%20origami]. Technorati Tags: microsoft [http:

Kevin was 6 for 6!

How did Kevin Rose know [http://krose.typepad.com/kevinrose/2006/01/macworld_2006.html]? who is his source? But hours before the big keynote from Mr. Jobs came this post from Kevin Rose: > 15" intel Macbook - order tomorrow, ships Feb (thinner, dual core) iPod FM receiver

Roku Labs Almost Had Me

Roku Labs has a new radio out called the Soundbridge Radio [http://www.rokulabs.com/products/soundbridge/SoundbridgeRadio/features.php] and it has a lot of really cool features. The biggest one for me was that it could play tracks via WiFi from iTunes! But it pays to read all