I’ve had a smidge of blogger’s block lately, and from experience, I know nothing gets people talking like a discussion about operating systems.
With Windows 7 RC on the horizon, Snow Leopard due later this year, and Jaunty already in RC and ready to drop any day, the next year or so will be full of [...]
It’s Friday. I’ve got a few items that might make a full post, but rather than squeeze blood out of a stone, I’ll resort to a miscellaneous debris post.
It’s not a link post, and it’s not a full post. It’s in between somewhere.
Since 1972
Josh Freese, drummer for DEVO, A Perfect Circle, Nine Inch Nails and [...]
Update: Turns out Best Buy, where we bought the iMac, doesn’t have the new models in stock yet, but to make room in their inventory, they’ve lowered the prices on the remaining ones by $400.
They were nice enough to honor the new price and refund the difference. Win-win, since I wasn’t all that excited about [...]
Back in 2006, I bought my wife and me identical Macbooks, the white ones.
When I buy computers, I always factor in the aftermarket enhancements I can make. This is one case where I’m not worried about maxing out memory or storage later down the road because I’m comfortable cracking open a laptop or desktop and [...]
So, I had an eventful morning.
Automatic updates on my Macbook kindly let me know that there was a security update available for Tiger (yes, I’m still on Tiger). As I’ve done many times in the past, I agreed to take the update, entered my credentials and went about my morning email checking.
The update finished downloading [...]
Thanks to a comment from Terry on my post about locking your smart phone, I’ve been digging around looking for ways to make my beloved iPhone more secure.
Surprisingly or not, Apple has made it maddeningly difficult to even the simplest precautions.
Terry’s comment, which I read a bit hastily, mentions changing the root password on your [...]
I noticed that the Cult of Mac converted another member this weekend. Floyd bought an iMac. He’d been pondering the jump for a while, and now, his love for Mac has leeched over into his work.
Full disclosure here, I’m a convert too. So is Dan. So are Paul, Rich and I assume Anthony, too. He [...]
With the memory of OpenWorld fading, I wanted to riff on one thing I noticed and found interesting last week.
Stickers, or rather the lack of them.
Rich and and I whipped up a last-minute plan to produce some stickers right before OpenWorld, and many of you were the beneficiaries last week. I added the AppsLab sticker [...]
The theme for today is file sharing apps that just work.
While browsing The Silicon Florist in my feeds today, I saw a post from Rick about Air Sharing, an iPhone app built by Avatron Software a company based in Vancouver (WA not BC).
As of yesterday, Air Sharing had 700,000 odd downloads in about a week, [...]
Rich pointed me at this nugget yesterday.
Dropbox is a small utility that solves a major pain point you’re familiar with if you have more than one computer or you’ve ever needed to transfer files between computers.
At least once a week, I have to transfer files between my machines; this is an old problem we [...]
I was all ready to crank out a heavy work post when this item in my Reader caught my eye.
Should You Pay Twice as Much for a Mac?
I love this type of title because it captures attention by being potentially controversial, and of course, it references Apple. Good tech news writing always drives traffic through [...]
Comments have been awfully quiet lately. I’m guilty of talking too much about work-related stuff and not enough about iPhones and Twitter.
My bad. Let’s remedy that.
Rich asked me recently how my move to Ubuntu was going. It’s been almost a month, and he says he has a vested interest in keeping me happy with it. [...]
It’s ironic to me that D-Day for good old Windows XP is coming up on Monday, since for several months, I’ve been trying to motivate myself to dump it in favor of Ubuntu as the O/S on my work laptop.
Tracking Dan’s recent jump into the Mac pond chronicled over Twitter and in his blog has [...]
As I teased yesterday, I’ve been mucking around with virtual machines to extend my ability to test Mix. Due to the varied nature of our users’ environments, I need to find ways to install more browsers, more versions on more operating systems.
Everyone knows reproducing an issue is really the best way to begin fixing it. [...]
I haven’t done post on the most popular ideas on Mix since November. Back then, they were:
1. We need the Oracle clients (OCI, JDBC) for the Apple Intel OSX platform
2. Compile Oracle XE for Intel OS X
Well, guess what? Since November, the same two ideas have stayed at 1 and 2. If you’re interested, rounding [...]
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