After waiting over 2 months Hello is finally going to be released to the iTunes App Store. I don’t know what happened but this app seemed to get lost in-between the cushions of the “App review process couch”, oh well it is finally available.
I recently got a 2nd generation Drobo which is a great device that offers USB 2.0 and FireWire 800 connections. Being the Mac guy I am, I naturally went for FireWire using a 800 to 400 cable connected to an iMac 2 GHz Intel Core Duo 2GB ram. I was getting a transfer rate of 15 mb/s to the iMac’s internal hard drive, if I was lucky. Just for kicks I decided to try the USB 2.0 connection and now I am getting 17.5-19 mb/s, I was really surprised. I never thought I would be wishing for the FireWire speed of my old PowerMac!
It appears that Apple (or maybe Intel) has done some optimization work on USB 2.0 with the Intel transition and FireWire has slipped a bit (remember I am talking the 400 version). Granted it could be that FireWire just blows on the iMac (or Drobo), maybe a MacPro screams.
If you want an easy hardware RAID setup give the Drobo a look.
If you are a Mac developer or iPhone developer using Cocoa for your apps you have to check out Cappuccino and Objective-J, which allows you to bring that Cocoa knowledge to web apps.
For someone like myself who has never really gotten into advanced web development this is a very useful toolset.
The guys at 280 North have done a great job of making JavaScript behave very similar to Objective-C and Cappuccino mimic Cocoa.
Check out this cool demo
Last Friday Randy Pausch a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon died, that same day I bought his book unknowing that he had passed. I read his book The Last Lecture
If you want a great story of a man living life to the fullest give it a read, the book makes you reflect on your own life a bit. I wish I could have had Randy as an instructor during my years at university.
