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Continue Reading...I agree with everything Wayne MacPhail has to say on the new super-thin Apple Macbook Air. And comparing the new, $1,700 low-power eye-candy laptop to an actually useful and meaningful technology (meaning the XO that Wayne contrasts with the Air) is spot-on.
Let’s face it, the Air is a frivolous computer. It’s too expensive, it’s a [...]
For those of us that have an Airport base station (especially the new one with 802.11/n) there’s a bit of good news if you were hoping to use an attached disk for wireless Time Machine backups: A simple hack will enable the feature. However, I should point out that there is a good reason Apple [...]
Continue Reading...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...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...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 [...]
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 [...]
Just a little while ago I mentioned Numbers and what Pages needs to compete in the Office space (both to run head-to-head with Microsoft Office and to be useful in a business setting). Now Apple has rolled out iWork ‘08—a huge upgrade to the iWork suite.
So, how does iWork ‘08 stack up—and should you think [...]
Someone at the office pointed me to this announcement about Trillian coming out on Mac OS/X. Frankly, I was a bit shocked to find that someone with a Windows machine found out before I did—clearly, I’m not doing my job and staying on top of late-breaking news.
At any rate, I can’t wait. It’s only in [...]
The Bradenton Herald recently ran this really lousy piece supposedly filling us in on the differences between the Mac and the PC. Normally I don’t bother to respond to such poorly researched articles, but this one is so laden with misinformation I just couldn’t help myself.
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This is me. Martial artist, zen student, programmer, writer and author, technologist, father of two, gamer and a resident of Los Angeles (well, the outskirts of it).
I'm also Vice President of System Technology Institute, an avid Mac, Rational Unified Process and Python fan, and am working on a few book projects. You can learn more here.
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