Jure Cuhalev

Posts Tagged ‘Apple

25 Dec, 2008

Graphication on OS X (with pycairo)

Posted by: Jure Cuhalev In: Tech

I’m working on some visualizations and I want to achieve the look of Last.fm visualization lastgraph3:

The great thing about this is that Andew Godwin, author of the site open sourced the underlying library - Graphication.
Since I’m an OS X user, I decided to make the whole thing work on my system - Leopard 10.5.6 at [...]

06 Nov, 2008

Is Nike Apple of running?

Posted by: Jure Cuhalev In: ideas

Brands are something that in today’s modern world give us meaning and legitimize a lot of our actions. Well, technically is our outlook, as in it’s strange to be out on a street alone in neighborhood, just walking around, but it becomes perfectly fine when you have a baby cart (with baby in of course), [...]

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29 Sep, 2008

Why Slovenia won’t get iPhone anytime soon

Posted by: Jure Cuhalev In: Tech| ideas

The short answer to Why Slovenia won’t get iPhone anytime soon is that it wouldn’t make sense.
When Apple failed to bring iPhone 3G to Slovenia earlier this year, a thousand fanboy voices cried in frustration. Yet when analyzing the ecosystem around iPhone, it makes complete sense.

iPhone is not just a fancy smart phone. It’s also [...]

02 Nov, 2007

Mac Gem: AppFresh

Posted by: Jure Cuhalev In: Planet Kiberpipa| Planet LiveCD| Tech

A few days before upgrading to Leopard, I stumbled upon a great Mac application called AppFresh, that automatically reads your Applications for installed apps, checks them against iUseThis to see if newer version is available and then conveniently allows you to download updates directly from its interface without having to hunt the .dmg file around [...]