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It slices, it dices... it can even make julienne fries. It's somewhere in between a laptop and the iPhone. The iPad is definitely something, but it’s hard to predict how successful it will be until we’re able to get our hands on it.

I just published this whitepaper for our affiliate mobile application development business, Codex Development. Here's a few pages of the text. For the entire whitepaper as a PDF, download it for free at http://www.codexdev.com/research.

Have you ever found yourself typing some of the same things over and over again in your emails?

On the early morning of Monday, January 4th, 2010, we corrected an error on our hosting junk mail filter which would increase the likelihood of a legitimate message being marked as junk mail.

The bug did not mean that all legitimate email was labelled as junk mail. However, it did increase the likelihood if the message also matched other rules which indicated that it "may" be junk mail.

Originally posted on http://netcropolis.org/content/apples-tablet-strategy

Recently, there has been an influx of articles and blog posts about Best Buy's "Mac optimization" services.

No doubt that since the release of Snow Leopard a couple weeks ago, you've read a lot about the "Snow Leopard" experience. It's definitely faster, more responsive, and pretty compatible with everything out there, so it seems that Apple has a winner of an OS, especially for the consumers. Good for Apple.

So what about about what's good for us, the professional Mac admins and IT guys who help run businesses that run on Macs? Snow Leopard is great news for consumers, but it's another OS to deploy for us and that's hardly worth jumping up and down for.

What we're interested in is something to make our jobs easier, to simplify our infrastructure, and make our clients or businesses run smoother. That's why we're interested in Snow Leopard Server. Unlike the client, Snow Leopard Server has numerous significant and real improvements - not just to the UI, but also to core functionality. So let's go over it in detail and in depth.

Installation

Installation of OS X Snow Leopard is of course, more complicated than the client version, so please, for those of you untrained in OS X Server installs, don't think that we're saying that anyone can do it. No matter what level of simplicity Apple brings to the UI, a server install will always require planning, forethought, and experience. For those of you who are experienced, you'll find Snow Leopard server one of the easiest installations of OS X Server you've seen. Options for network configuration, services, and directory options are available as they are in the Leopard installation, but are more clearly laid out.

That seems like a strange title for one of my blog posts, especially for a tech company that doesn't have any business in Africa. Let me explain.

As we recently announced in our online newsletter, we're sponsoring Adam Mazo, filmmaker of "Reconciliations Reach," a film about Rwandans struggle with reconciliation a generation after genocide. Tech Superpowers is providing Adam and his team with essential video editing gear for his documentary once he arrives back in the states after a month-long trip to Rwanda.

Read our announcement about the collaboration.

Adam's recently posted a new blog post on the film's website with updates from his journey:

A new week, a new Apple rumour (I'm going with the UK spelling here since I'm in London). This one is about the fabled Apple Tablet, which is basically the same rehashed rumour about the Apple netbook that surfaced earlier this year.

In this version, China Times has an article (translated here) about the upcoming plans for Apple to release such a device in October.

eWeek interviewed me yesterday to find out my opinion on if these rumours were possibly going to come true.

My opinion? This rumour smells about right. Why? Because of a convergence of a number of factors: user demand, technology, and developer energy. The point where these things converge is where Apple plays best.