UPDATE 2012-06-18: My Justia colleague, Dan Vu Quoc , has let me know that the 3rd party shareware Screen Resolution utility for Mac SwitchResX is capable of pushing the Macbook Pro with Retina Display’s resolution up to the full 2880 by 1600 resolution even when not plugged into an external...
As everyone who has ever seen me (or a picture of me) can attest, I am extremely obese. After I wrote my most popular blog post ever , one wiki (which doesn’t seem to be online anymore) linked to my article and credited me only as “a very large man” and it is true, I was and still am quite huge....
Web Intents in Google Chrome 19+ changed what happens when you view an Atom or RSS Link, here's how to get your XML Back
Remember when GMail first came out ? 1GB of email was unheard of, especially in a free service at the time. One of Google’s big selling points was “ you’ll never need to delete another message. ” It was right there on the home page. If you compare the home pages from 2004 and today for Gmail...
A Coding Challenge to get into Google I/O 2012 went awry when Google's developers made a simple validation mistake
Even though Google doubled the price (paid $450 last year, this year $900), Google I/O sold out even faster than last year. Last year it took about 45 minutes for Google’s Developer conference to sell out, this year it was all over in just over 20 minutes according to a post on Google+ by Google...
I mentioned last week that Pottermore is set to open to the public on April 1st unless it is a cruel April Fool’s Day joke to Potter fans. It seems the Pottermore team is hoping to dispel the fears that it might be a joke by releasing part of the site (a part that wasn’t previously even available...
A review of both the Beauty and the Beast new movie and the stage play
I’ve talked before about Pottermore , the website by J.K. Rowling and TH_NK . Well according to the Pottermore Insider blog , the site will go live on April 1st, it isn’t clear if this means that the ebooks will finally be available on that date too, although I hope so. Of course, April 1st is...