Apple has intentionally broken third party syncing services. From what I gather in the press, it’s an ego battle going on with Google, but third party vendors are suffering. You cannot, absolutely cannot, use Apple’s iCloud and sync your contacts and calendars with Google Apps also. This is new as of the OS/X Lion (10.7) [...]
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Steven P. Jobs, leader, visionary, and chairman of Apple Inc., died Wednesday at the age of 56. We will all miss his influence on the world. This strikes particularly close to me, having known him, and worked in close proximity at NeXT Computer. His innovation, drive for excellence, and uncompromising belief in building something better [...]
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I finally buckled and upgraded to OS/X 10.7 Lion. After all, now that the first update is out, the major glitches should be gone right? Overall I’m happy with the upgrade. There are some really nice usability improvements, in general I’d say performance is great, and some of the new features are really very handy. [...]
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Ok, so I’ve been working hard on the launch of Project Masters (and on content for Hyrax International) and really have ignored the whole personal blogging thing. I should fix that and may have found the right weapon to help. Socialoomph is a pretty cool tool for boosting your “social productivity.” Well, whatever, I don’t [...]
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Everyone should take a good read of Robert Reich’s September 1 article. I absolutely love this quote. If only everyone understood this, I think we’d see a lot less fluctuation in the market and the economy. But alas, his point: The stock market has as much to do with the real economy as the weather [...]
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Snagged from 43folders and totally worth the read: If we embrace the fact that no one can or should ever care about the health of our passions as much as we do, the practical decisions that help ensure Our Good Thing stays alive can become as “simple” as a handful of proven patterns—work hard, stay [...]
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The Internet is making us stupid (well, maybe). I think there’s no better case that illustrates this than a recent lawsuit against Google, in which the plaintiff charges that: Google Maps led her to a four-lane boulevard without sidewalks that was “not reasonably safe for pedestrians,” according to the lawsuit filed by the Northridge, Calif., [...]
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Can cell phones cause brain cancer? It’s been the focus of discussions, arguments, studies and bloggers for decades now. The Interphone study, launched 10 years ago and studying 10,000 participants spread across 13 different countries, sought to answer that question.
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Isn’t anyone going to start up a class action suit against AT&T and Apple? Both companies promised iPhone tethering support, spurring greatly increased sales of the iPhone 3Gs, only to yank the promise of tethering in the U.S. even though AT&T offers tethering with other devices. Promises for the past year have been broken, leaving [...]
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Is it just me or do you get frustrated when online posts (such as this one) don’t provide a publishing date? It’s really annoying. Come on folks, take a tip from the press: Always provide a publishing date and author (unless your entire blog is just you, then an author’s probably not necessary).
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“We used to hustle on over the border for health care… And I think, isn’t that kind of ironic now?” — Sarah Palin, former governor of Alaska, admitting that her family used to go to Canada for medical treatment when she was a child; Canada has a single payer system, which Palin opposes. (Time, March [...]
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So it looks like the Apple Tablet is for real, not just completely unsubstantiated collective wishful thinking from thousands of Apple fans (which can be pretty powerful in and of itself). And if the slip-up is true, we’ll have all the fun details later this week — and they do sound tantalizing.
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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.
