Tag Archives: 'apple'

• Stealing Software

  I started writing this post while sitting half-asleep on a modern uncomfortable sofa in the Amsterdam airport while I was waiting for my connection to Warsaw without the benefit of wireless internet. I used WriteRoom — a software package I find myself using more and more often to write without distraction. (It actually works.) I [...]

• Holding Numbers

  This is probably the biggest reason I’m not in line for an iPhone (besides the minimum monthly bill): I simply do not use my cellphone enough. I often leave it home, uncharged and unplugged. When I do remember to bring it to work, I often forget it on my desk before heading home. I have [...]

• Share

  One more thought on Twitter before I am shown the exit… If it helps people communicate, god bless. And I mean that for all sorts of web services that are widely available to everyone and anyone. The Facebook photo application is horrible. The best photo sharing service is clearly Flickr (and for most users, the [...]

• iPhone Daze

  The iPhone is a toy. I do not say that in complete disregard to its status or its potential as a platform. The iPhone is a platform, just as the laptop computer, BlackBerry and Wii are platforms. In fact, it may even be the future of Apple and possibly the entire computing world. Who knows? [...]

• A Tweet Future

  Maybe my life is meaningless. I mean, outside of my wife and dog, my house and job, my family and belongings, really what else is there? I think I need to go on hiatus, on some sort of sabbatical. I need only a few things besides my brain and hands. When I re-emerge from solidarity [...]

• MacBook Redux

  When I purchased my MacBook, I knew exactly what I wanted to do with it, or so I believed, unlike when I purchased my desktop Dell four years earlier. When I was researching for computers back then, I simply wanted all-of-the-above. Did I want a dual-layer DVD burner? Of course, although to this day, I [...]

• MacHeist

  I am battling temptation. I agree with the underlying context that the bundle is an overall rip-off for the individual developers of the applications included in the latest MacHeist bundle. However, I do not see it as a fair condemnation of the consumers that do purchase the bundle because the consumers are — in fact [...]

• MacBook Wheel

  Just in time for the final MacWorld Expo keynote across the bay (via TechCrunch)… Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard It remains to be seen if the ‘Wheel’ will catch on in the business world where people use computers for actual work and not just dicking around.

• MacBook Presser

  I’ve been peppered with a lot of emails since my hinting and then confirming of my recent purchase of a MacBook. And longtime readers have known of my desire to return home for a long, long time. Instead of answering these emails individually, I have decided to host a press-conference on the subject. Here goes… [...]

• MacBook

  I’m back, and it feels good. Image: Insanely Great Tees

• In Transit

  One of these days I’m going to visit Shenzhen; it must be a magical place… Image: FedEx

• Blogging Live from the Apple Store

  I am here at the Emeryville Apple Store trying to determine if the backlit keyboard is worth $300 (plus a little faster processor and a little more storage). I don’t see that MacBook on display here, but I guess I can figure out its worth on the MacBook Pro. I have already gotten used to [...]

• So, No $800 MacBook

  Some interesting back-story on the new MacBooks released yesterday. Late last week, a rumor churned that the entry price-point for the new (low-end) MacBook would be $800, which would be a startling change of pace for Apple. This turned out not to be the case. The rumor was apparently started exclusively by Duncan Riley, formerly [...]

• Apple Store Will Be Back Soon

  With the release of the new MacBooks due today, the Apple Store is conveniently down this morning… Image: Apple.com

• Triumph of the Nerds

  This documentary of the rise of the personal computer is clearly dated, but it includes interviews with Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, including the memorable “Microsoft has no taste” line…* This film does identify the basis however — for the record — the argument that Steve Jobs has exhibited the greatest second act in the [...]

• Loose Ends

  I’ve taken on the task of cutting some loose ends of myself around the web. Over the years, I have sampled a lot of services, most of them junk. Plenty of them were not worth re-visiting, and despite a username/password, there is nothing really there. Elsewhere, however, I have personal information of photos or videos [...]

• iPhone

  This may make me “strange,” especially for someone who keeps a blog, but at least one thing I am thankful for this evening… I do not own an iPhone. A $120 phone bill to bitch about the lack of copy-and-paste capability? Gripes over the App store? (Read: dork patrol. Pass the dungeons and dragons rule [...]

• Pirates of Silicon Valley

  This movie changed my outlook on life when I first watched it on TNT in 1999. I had to make sure my wife saw it too before it was too late, and although the soundtrack sound-levels are considerably “off,” this made-for-TV movie stands up pretty well over time. I hadn’t realized, however, that while I [...]

• Apple v. Microsoft

  After watching my favorite made-for-tv movie of all-time — Pirates of Silicon Valley — last night, watching this video (a scene re-enacted in the film) made for great entertainment this morning… I am looking into reading a book on the subject of Macintosh, Windows, and the war between the two companies — Apple and Microsoft. [...]

• Blogging Live from the Apple Store

  I am at the Apple Store in Emeryville while my wife does some weekend shopping. This is officially the first day of summer in the Bay Area — eighty degrees and sunny; the grasses are now becoming a burnt brown, and will be a major fire hazard later in the year. I am considering — [...]

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