Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger Part 12. There’s an process on Mac computers called ‘mds’ that shows up in Activity Monitor if you’re looking.  That process is Spotlight indexing your computer and it can sometimes use up quite a bit of CPU. I’m saving this article for myself so that I can fix the issue if it gets too bad on my machine.

This morning Apple announced that they’re lifting some of the restrictions that they had placed earlier this year on developers and the tools they use to create applications. They also announced that they’re going to publish official app review guidelines so that developers will have a much better idea of whether they’re app will pass the review process or not. Both are smart moves.  They’ll benefit the development community and, by extension, the platform in [...]

The Lesson Applied » The Case Against Net Neutrality. I’m going to go ahead and say it.  I’m against Net Neutrality. I love the concept.  I’d love all content to have equal access to internet pipes, but I don’t want that to be enforced by laws and a governmental morass of regulation and legislation. If you can achieve the same thing through a gentlemen’s agreement, then it’ll be a thing of beauty, but I think [...]

Facebook is not run by philanthropists intent on providing a valuable service to the world by helping them keep in contact with people they know (or don’t know as the case may be).  It is run by businessmen who are making money in various ways that include selling advertising and personalization. Not that there is anything inherently wrong with making money (I like to do that myself), but it does have an impact on how [...]

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” – Arthur C. Clarke, 1961.  I invite you to watch the latest photo-editing technology from Adobe.