Joshua Baker

There are many people out there like me who own a desktop based iMac or Mac Pro but also own a MacBook or MacBook Pro. For those of you who don’t you may be unaware that keeping things in sync is a nightmare. Having to enter information twice is just plain impractical.

I embark on my challenge; Achieve MobileMe syncing for free

Well, I am happy to report that it is possible and is not nearly as hard as I thought. You can sync a great deal of apps via this method too; so your not confined to just those that are set up to work with MobileMe by default.

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I’ve been a big fan of Geometry Wars ever since I first saw it a few years back on a friends Xbox 360. As I have a preference for PC/Mac gaming I did not purchase any of the recent generation of consoles (at least for myself).

It was nice to see such a good job done of porting the arcade game of the year to both Mac and PC. It’s just as addictive as I remember.

Get the free download for PC Mac Rapidshare mirror

So I’m a big fan of the Safari browser. I strongly believe that web-kit based browsers render content far better. Take this blog for instance. Viewing on Safari gives you CSS text-shadows and transitions, which are unavailable on other non-web-kit browsers. (That’s a hint by the way).

I am, however, very disappointed to encounter issues like the one I have encountered. I have a good friend called Andy, who loves his photography, just as I do. He’s been playing around with his WordPress installation trying to find the best fit in respect of a theme. Unfortunately for me I cannot view his website any longer due to some stupid weakness in Safari that has caused it to redirect all requests for http://www.andrewmuir.com/ to a malicious website.

This vulnerability in Safari has me down in the dumps. I have not wanted to log into any other website for fear they are front to some scam.

Anyway… I set forth in my mission to find a suitable fix and will update according.

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Well… the Twitter API documentation at least. See the title?

This cannot bode well for pbwiki.

Are you looking for work?

I’m currently on the hunt for freelance PHP developers for various projects. London based preferred. Get in touch through Twitter or via email.

My dock seems to be sick.

Update: An Apple specialist said it was just dust. Sprayed it with dust removal. All seems okay now.

So today I was granted the chance to try out a piece of beta software today. I must say that I was somewhat disappointed in the app. I thought the concept was there, the Appleesque animations were there, but they had missed some major functionality. Now I don’t want to jump the gun here as this is, after all, beta software. I cannot, however, see them getting the kind of functionality I expected in by their projected release next week.

During my usage I noticed that their integration with some core API functionality was lacking, for example the inability to respond or comment on Facebook statuses or other Facebook items, rending the app a feed reader (for Facebook at least). On another note it was required that you had to click on a status to mark it as read, which seems a little silly to me, however they do provide a ‘Mark All As Read’ button.

On a positive note, the UI is very nice and the icon, designed by Na’design (I think), looks really great!

I’ll be keeping my eye out for the release however and have my fingers crossed that ugly desktop solution, Twitteriffic, can be replaced.

So I think it was probably inevitable that something like this would happen. The increasing popularity of the Twinkle iPhone app could only come hand in hand with the occasional server fail.

I’ve been using the app myself for around two weeks now in order to compare it with my previous mobile Twitter solution, Twitteriffic. I’m still very much divided between the two. Ironically, unlike most comments I’ve heard from other blogs, I actually prefer the Twinkle interface over that of Twitterffic.

Let hope Tapulous aren’t in any trouble as I’m still awaiting the FriendBook app…

For the uninitiated, this is @rosemarydarling who I met, by chance, at the Diggnation party at Fox. Having not had a blog at the time I was limited to my Twitter account to micro blog my way through the shenanigans. She’s an Apple fan, should that have not been obvious from the above.

@cliveflint, another attendee of the Diggnation show and photographer of the above, took some pretty amazing snaps that can be seen on Flickr.

@andrewmuir and I got a pretty good place in the queue, third and fourth. If you watch the latest show be sure to check us out at the front. I also got to meet and chat with some pretty influential people at the after party, which was of course great.

So, I registered this domain a while ago now and have not had a chance to do anything with it to date. I have therefore decided to make use of it in the form of a blog. I have high hopes that it will evolve into a good resource for those of similar interest in internet entrepreneurship, web development, creativity and design.

I hope that you can spare the time to visit from time to time. More to come soon…