posted by Alpay filed under Technology
I'm writing this post from my PDA over an EDGE connection using Opera Mini. My main computer is away from me, though I don't miss it. Only thing I miss is a keyboard as HTC Prophets only provide the on-screen type. I have been checking my personal e-mails, reading rss news and surfing the web with this device and I
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posted by Alpay filed under Life
Everytime I fire up a soundtrack in my iTunes I keep thinking: "Something is missing, this is not the same song I have listened in the movie theater". Well obviously something is missing.
The experience we have at the movie theaters is a combination of lights, sounds and a concept. The atmosphere is very much sealed with the darkness and sound
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posted by Alpay filed under blogging
I have been wandering and trying different blogging tools on the Mac platform for a while. Unfortunately all the good software out there has a non-zero price tag. Well except ScribeFire, which is a great Firefox plug-in and a real time saver. I have not extensively tested it and I will be comparing it to the blogging facilities of Flock,
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posted by Alpay filed under Technology
Wow, this is big news for me. Embarcadero Technologies decided to buy CodeGear (Development Tools Division) from Borland. Since I am working for the Turkish partner of Embarcadero, Borland and CodeGear this may not affect things in our side but it will definitely change the game field and I hope it will be beneficial for both the companies and their
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posted by Alpay filed under Mac
The X Lab has great tips for managing Spotlight here, some of which saved my day today so I will post them here:
To stop indexing a volume:
sudo mdutil -i off /path_to_volume
To erase spotlight indices:
sudo mdutil -E /path_to_volume
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posted by Alpay filed under Mac
My wife is working on her Ph.D thesis and I feel completely useless being unable to help her. Anyhow, she had some drawings to be done in xfig, which is not been used since the 15th century. I said, OK my mac has BSD under the hoods so there should be some kind of Xfig available there. There are in
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I had an idea to put on the blog for a while. It was about all those things that did not by themselves constitute a blog entry. All those things I see every day, read about and hear. All those things I would like to share.
I will call these "Small Pile of Even Smaller Things" and make them into a
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posted by Alpay filed under Life
Today I received an e-mail from my dad about a site near ?anl?urfa (southeast Turkey) called Göbekli Tepe. Findings there suggest dates back to 9000 BC, and predates all farming activities known. It is important because up to now scientists had thought that people who are only dependent on hunting/gathering could not build monuments and temples. However these ruins show
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posted by Alpay filed under Mac
This is actually an old post of mine back at "The Unofficial Mac". I am reposting for convenience.
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One of the reasons I was itching for an upgrade to Leopard had been the new Mail. I have been using Thunderbird as my e-mail client on my Mac from Day 2. On Day 1 I gave a shot and used Apple Mail
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