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Running Firefox 3 and the Firefox 4 BETA simultaneously on your Mac

Installing the Firefox 4 BETA would usually overwrite your existing installation of Firefox 3, but you can run both versions simultaneously by following the instructions in this post.

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Unboxing my new Unibody MacBook Pro 2.4GHz

I had been using an older-generation MacBook Pro for a few years, so I was quite excited to open up my brand new Unibody MacBook Pro a few days after I got my new iPhone 3GS!

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Opting your iPhone / iPod Touch / iPad out of Apple iOS4’s Geolocation-Aware iAds

If you’re security-conscious you can opt out of Apple’s location-aware iAds by following the instructions in this post.

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Playing with the Apple iPad

A few days ago I had a chance to play with someone’s Apple iPad here in Cape Town… All I can say is WOW!

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Managing Background Tasks in the Bash Shell

In the the Unix Bash shell the “&” (ampersand) character is a control operator used to fork processes.

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iPhone 4 and iOS 4 Announced at Apple’s 2010 World Wide Developer Conference

iPhone 4 features IPS and Retina display technologies, a front-facing camera, a Micro-SIM tray, an LED flash, and the Apple A4 processor.

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Sending Tweets from the command line using a Bash script

The Twitter API makes it very simple to send tweets with curl via a Bash script.

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List comments and files changed for a specific Subversion Revision

If you need to check which files changed during a specific revision, use this command in a Terminal window.

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