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Gary_W_Longsine

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About Gary_W_Longsine

Soldier of fortune. Erstwhile poet. Casual hero. illumineX - maker of fine software for iPhone, iPad, and Mac.

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    Bloggers might be interested in knowing… we're bringing back iBlogger for iPhone (and now, iPad) this week, an all-new product built in Swift for iOS 13. The core text posting feat…

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    Comment #1459897

    This video shows one iPhone calling another when the phones are within a few inches, as close as 1 inch apart. It's frankly amazing that the call completes, and doesn't drop more o…

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    Comment #1459889

    You were probably down-voted because you committed a basic error in logic. Every single iPhone 4 is running the exact same software, iOS 4, so you contributed noise to the discussi…

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    Comment #1459305

    The issue with iPhone 4's "yellow spots" may have a simple explanation. Users at Apple's forums have reported that the issue just "went away". Perhaps this post at the Apple Inside…

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    Comment #648597

    You won't "take a hit", but you will "fail to utilize the hardware as efficiently as you could". Both GCD and OpenCL have their roots in open extensions to C. Both offer potentiall…

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    Comment #648591

    Related to this is another key performance technology in Snow Leopard, OpenCL: http://images.apple.com/macosx/technology/docs/OpenCL_TB_bri... .

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    Comment #648573

    Apple may have been inspired in part by their experience with XGrid [ http://www.apple.com/server/macosx/technology/xgrid.html ], based on the NeXTSTEP application Zilla [ http://w…