Ok, I’m sure that U2 has nothing to do with the Mighty Mouse. But I blame them for my need for black Apple products. I mean, after all they are the ones who got the people excited to see a black iPod. I bet they are the reason we have the black Macbooks, Nano’s, and [...]
For writing I’m using Writeroom and SubEthaEdit (although at some point I’ll get Pages as NeoOffice seems a bit flaky for me)…. Most importantly I’ve found a game of Solitaire and have managed to get World of Warcraft working (although Second Life is terribly slow).
37 Signals, creators of Backpack, Basecamp, and Ta-da List(and the geniuses behind Ruby on Rails) have added a calendar to Backpack.
If you live by the words “Never buy a Rev.1 Apple product,” then you’re probably feeling pretty smug right now.
The Apple-centric side of the Internet has been buzzing about the MacBook - price, performance, features, style… I’m sure you’ve heard it already. Over the last few weeks, a darker tone has crept into all [...]
Months ago, I saw the “Evening at Adler” video that DrunkenBatman released, which consisted of Mac indie developers discussing important topics about our platform. Something that they discussed which rang strong with me was a topic known as “versioning”. Basically, when a developer works on a major project, no matter what environment or platform, it’s [...]
Just got my new cell phone delivered today, and thought I’d share the ups and downs of the setup experience.
First step: turn on Bluetooth. If you’re lucky enough to live in Brazil, this is an excellent opportunity to see how a careless translation can royally screw up an interface. In the Connections configuration, the Bluetooth [...]
Give me a community that agrees on everything and you might as well give me a fluffy pillow too cause it won’t be very long before boredom creeps in and I’m sawing a log. Disagreement, debate and non-violent conflict are healthy, entertaining and growth fostering. Without them communities often become stale and flat. [...]
A little over a month ago I swapped-out my 15″ PowerBook for a white MacBook. (No, no discoloration yet, but it’s one hot mother…) I really can’t be happier with the machine. It’s fast, small, and does everything I need it to do - and generally a LOT faster than the former [...]
If any of you have been paying attention to the Linux crowd lately, you may have noticed a couple of arcane sounding terms like XGL and compiz being passed around frequently. XGL+Compiz is the newest form of eyecandy available for the Linux desktop, and its quite impressive.
OS X has included most of [...]
Ok, I just got my blood pressure down enough to type this out. I must say well done. It was hard to put it down and realize four hours had passed.
Call of Duty 2 is not a game for all Macs though. Requiring a G5 or Intel 1.8Ghz or higher, an Ati Radeon 9600 or [...]
Listen, people rant and speculate about the workings of Cupertino until their blue. When all is said and done, none of that matters without Apple having a healthy balance sheet. Today, Apple announced some very interesting numbers in their Q3 report.
Macs are the highest selling computer on the market in Q3. Period. They sold 12% [...]
Network World has a humorous piece on what the Windows 2012 startup processes will be along side the so-called connected services Microsoft is developing. Too funny!
This guy noticed with the 10.4.7 update there were some interesting phone-home things going on. The comments dig into the new process called dashboardadvisoryd, which seems to snag two apple.com resources. The support note says “You can now verify whether or not a Dashboard widget you downloaded is the same version as a widget featured [...]
I’m starting my preparations to head to this year’s WWDC and, like last year, I’m working on my list of stuff to jam into the Brenthaven backpack. Since I’m going to be hauling this across the country, as well as through a week’s worth of conference, lightness and utility are the two things I always [...]
Over on Alastair’s blog is a post that Apple has ignored a pretty bad OS X security problem since 2003. I’ve no doubts there are a lot of bugs in OS X, and that there are a lot of them that aren’t known in the white-hat circles. This is pretty bad, and hopefully we’ll see [...]
When I was young, I woke up two days before Christmas very early in the morning. I heard some ruckus in the garage, and I went to investigate. To my surprise, my father was struggling with my Christmas presents in the car. Two days before Santa was supposed to come, I learned the cold truth. [...]
I’m a bag whore. I’ve got piles of them laying around my basement. I’d buy one, use it, figure out what I didn’t like about it, and I’d move on to the next one. This went on for many years - drove my wife crazy! (”Another bag? you’ve already got [...]
TUAW posted an observation that Apple’s Get a Mac campaign page mentions Parallel’s and not Boot Camp.
Oh, how do I say this? Duh? Apple wouldn’t recommend their software for these reasons:
Boot Camp is a public beta, something that a new customer probably wants to avoid to have a trouble-free experience. Frankly, setting up Boot Camp [...]
As the issue of discoloring white MacBooks circulates the internet, and as a would-be buyer of the MacBook, my eyes are peeled to the screen to see how the issue plays out. I know by the volume of page views and comments to these threads, that I’m not the only one. But it’s [...]
Back in late April I needed to do some advanced validation and testing of a RESTful XML web service we’ve been enhancing for various projects.
To that end, I put together a rudimentary test … “page” … in HTML/CSS/JavaScript. Then figured … “what the heck”, I might as well throw this in a Dashboard [...]
