This is the way it should be.
When OmniGroup released their new (and absolutely delicious) OmniFocus product, they went into an early closed beta program to involve end users. At first it was opened up to a few hundred, then a few thousand, and over time the beta program grew until it became a public beta. [...]
It’s amazing how much time can be wasted twiddling with every little setting our computers offer us. Maybe that’s why the Mac strikes me as so much more productive than Windows—it’s pretty well locked down so there’s not much opportunity to fiddle around. Nevertheless, people always find a way (as evidenced by CandyBar, a great [...]
Continue Reading...Now that we Mac folk have a bit of competition on the virtual operating system front we’re starting to see good things develop. Competition is always good for the market right?
So it would seem, as VMware ships version 1.1 of Fusion. I was eager to try out the Converter application and migrate my virtual Parallels [...]
Wow, the problem with a big site is that a few bits get hidden for a long time. I spent a little time updating the “about” page, the FAQ and my curriculum vitae.
Continue Reading...Annoyed at how stacks, the one non-eye candy enhancement to the OS/X dock, is completely useless because it covers the stack icon with whatever is inside the stack? Me too. You might find this little hack handy. If you don’t read Japanese, this might be easier to read though. Beautiful set of icons, too—and definitely [...]
Continue Reading...After putting it off for about a year, I finally decided to upgrade WordPress. It was a bit chaotic, so apologies to anyone that noticed all the problems over the past few days. Everything is back together again—most of the trouble came from the host of outdated plugins that I had to upgrade, a handful [...]
Continue Reading...Apple is pushing Time Machine as a reason to rush out and buy OS/X 10.5, Leopard. And, after two solid years of development—not to mention the flashy demos and keynotes by Steve Jobs—this must be the end-all-and-be-all of backup solutions, right? Not.
From an enterprise point of view, as Sean points out, it’s not going to [...]
I’ve been looking forward to OS/X Leopard seriously for about three months now. After seeing it in action on our development systems it definitely gets the nod for some beautiful, eye-catching improvements that will make any Windows Vista user jealous. But is it really worth the upgrade cost of $129?
Actually, I’m a bit miffed at [...]
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Continue Reading...I’ve been advocating against buying extended warranty plans for years. It doesn’t take a degree in rocket science to do the math: Most people end up putting their extended warranty into play only rarely. In fact, of the literally hundreds of gadgets and gizmos I’ve purchased, I can recall actually having a malfunctioning gizmo repaired [...]
Continue Reading...John Gruber wrote, “if the photo accompanying this story doesn’t move you, you’re not hooked up right.”
Continue Reading...This struck me as offensive at the time, about a decade ago… now, it’s hard not to laugh about it:
I’d shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders. (Fortune)
Made all the more poignant by this week’s market cap figures: Apple, $146 billion. Dell, $63 billion. (Just for comparison’s sake, Intel is at [...]
This is me. Martial artist, zen student, programmer, writer and author, technologist, father of two, photographer and a resident of Los Angeles (well, the outskirts of it).
I also publish Rational Scrum and am President & CEO of Hyrax International LLC, delivering comprehensive process improvements to its clientele. Specialities include audit and assessment of program areas such as project management, quality assurance, risk management and customer satisfaction as well as delivering focused initiatives to improve customer efficiency.
