Paul Jacobson's blog

I love the iPhone. It was a pioneer in the mobile space and showed us all a new paradigm for mobile devices. That being said, the ugly truths are starting to become more apparent the more I read, hear and think about the iPhone. For all the amazing innovations in the iPhone there are aspects of it that are several steps backwards. Don’t get ....

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The show of support for the growing number of refugees in our country as a result of the savage and xenophobic attacks on them by hoards of blood crazed murderers is really good to see. It really is and it is great to know there are ways we can help these poor people who have experienced so much hardship and persecution before arriving in South Africa only to ....

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I thought I would do a post about my office and the various tools I use to do the work I do for anyone who is interested in this stuff. Over the last month or so my office space has transformed being fairly paper dependent and cumbersome to a potentially and largely paperless office. Although I would love to see my office become totally paperless, the way ....

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I love my MacBook and would like to say that I couldn’t see myself ever using anything other than a Mac but there is still a little doubt about such a statement.  As anyone who follows me on Twitter knows, my MacBook’s hard drive crashed a week or so ago so badly that the data is irrecoverable (all 155 GB of it) and my only real hope to avoid ....

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It turns out Vodafone has reached an agreement with Apple to distribute the iPhone in 10 of Vodafone’s customer countries including South Africa: Vodafone today announced it has signed an agreement with Apple to sell the iPhone in ten of its markets around the globe. Later this year, Vodafone customers in Australia, the Czech Republic, Egypt, Greece, Italy, India, Portugal, New Zealand, South Africa and Turkey will be able ....

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I was just chatting about our puppies on Twitter and I thought I’d show everyone our 3 puppies (well, “puppies” is a loose term, they are about 2 and a half years old and are probably teenagers or something by now). From the left they are Stuart, Bandit (in blue) and Salami. We got Salami first and after a terrible night when she was just miserable and ....

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I have been using Mail.app for my email almost since I started using my Mac. The Holy Trinity (Mail, Address Book and iCal) have served me well for the most part. Lately though it seems like Mail.app has been doing some crazy voodoo shit when the moon is just right and a black cat crosses the road at a 37 degree angle. I thought I would try ....

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