Turn Off iPhone Backups

A cursory glance at Twitter over the past few weeks shows quite a few people aren’t happy with the time it takes the iPhone 2.0 software to complete a backup when it’s synced in iTunes.

There is an easy way to prevent iTunes from backing up the iPhone, but first a word of caution. Backups are beneficial. They allow you to quickly recover from a crash by... Read More

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Speaking at WWDC08, Session 454

WWDC08 is upon us, and I neglected to advertise the talk that I am giving with the very talented Jeff Watkins. We are presenting:

Session 454: Improving Responsiveness in Websites and Web Applications.
Friday, June 13th 2:00PM-3:15PM
Marina Conference Room

We have some great optimization techniques to go over with you, and we plan to talk about a real world case study involving the Online Apple... Read More

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AppleScript to Unmount all drives

I often have many external volumes connected to my laptop at any given time (network drives, iPods, external HD, etc.). It can be annoying to manually disconnect each one of them before I unplug the USB hub. Instead I use a quick AppleScript to do the job of disconnecting all of my external volumes. I bind the script to a QuickSilver... Read More

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