Blog from the Loft

Times article on Tuesday headline “Google vs iPhone: Is Steve Jobs Reliving Past Mistakes” puts forward that because Andriod is open, and iPhone is closed, Apple is going to loose the smartphone platform just like they “lost” the PC platform. Article sounds convincing until you realized that there is a very mature and reasonably open [...]

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It’s happening. As expected, iRex announced their iRex Digital Reader 1000 and 1000S today. Larger screen, wireless connectivity and touch screen for annotation. A 10.2 inch screen makes a big difference. So demand for the e-ink display is raising, price will be dropping, while Amazon claims that they are not going to release a new [...]

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After one year, I finally gotten around of fixing this little annoyance. Everytime I click on a .doc document, my Mac wants to open up Microsoft Office. Finally I switched the default association back to pages.

Select any file with the extension you want to change.
Click Get Info
Down near the bottom, change “open with” to whatever [...]

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The Mac is great. I do all my work on a Mac Book Pro. I switched from Windows to Leopard completely this year and couldn’t be happier, except:
There are a few big problems in the Apple / Leopard universe. Somehow no one is publicizing these issues. If Windows have these problems the blogsphere and the [...]

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Six weeks from day zero. I picked up my iPhone 3G, and the little metal stud falls off. I wondered about the design of this switch before, it is pretty to look at, but sliding in a circular path probably put a lots of strain on it. I use this switch probably on average four [...]

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JQuery is useful, but it is built on top of the idiosyncratic javascript and DOM model. I find the whole environment lack consistency. So here are some quick cookbook style notes on how to do specific things:
Clear all checkboxes in a form
$(”:checkbox”).attr(”checked”,false)

Technorati Tags: jquery

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