I was reading a list on CrunchGear a couple days ago about “The Eight Ways The Tech Industry Tries To Screw Us”. Apple’s name appeared once, but I think they fit into a couple other spots as well.
At number 2, the obvious item was DRM. Apple was named explicitly on this point. [...]
Well, Microsoft has said it themselves, Windows Vista (due out in about a month) will be a huge nightmare to support.
On the official Vista development blog, Microsoft claims a study, conducted by IDC and commissioned by Microsoft, found that Vista will create 100,000 new jobs in IT, and that for every $1 Microsoft makes from [...]
Bryan Veloso shot me an IM this evening asking if I was aware of this particular issue his fiancé was having with her 5G 30GB iPod. I hadn’t heard of it and it seemed no Apple technicians had either. Which also seems to mean she can’t get it fixed…which is a bummer. So this post [...]
Bloomberg claims that Apple will be its own carrier for the upcoming iPhone.
I think that if Bloomberg is right, it would be a really great thing for customers.
Signing a contract with a wireless carrier today is a complete mess for the customer. There are way to many plans to choose from, and each one [...]
One thing I would love to see fixed in Leopard is dialog boxes where the choices don’t quite make sense. For example, when you set up a new Airport Base Station and forget to change the default password this is what you see:
The two choices (Change and OK) really don’t match the question being asked [...]
I have a confession to make. I’m back-up challenged. See, I backup my system like a good boy, and generally run it about every 2 weeks. But I never really understand exactly what my backup tool - SuperDuper! - is doing based on whichever settings I use from week to week. [...]
If you’ve been following MacAppADay as I have, you’ve already seen that today’s freebie is Xslimmer. I had no idea this app existed previous to this (MAAD seems to be doing it’s job in that respect) or even what it did. Maybe I’m behind the times.
For those in the same boat as myself, [...]
I’ve got a friend who teaches at a University. He told me they’re talking about getting Macs for the department, with the intent of creating podcasts that their classes can download for notes and such. But he wasn’t sure what the best setup may be for this situation.
Here at The Apple [...]
The other day I pontificated about Mac software marketing. The short of it was, I’m into it. Well then I caught wind of this similarly-themed post from MacUser. Pat takes an angle which I hadn’t considered before. It seems he’s of the mind to hold off on buying some software in [...]
A while back I enjoyed making a bunch of the mini iPhoto Books for family members as holiday gifts. The size was fun and portable, good for the grandparents to show off and all that. They were relatively cheap, and in typical Apple fashion, easy to create.
But when they arrived in [...]
This is more of a ’show me yours’ type of post. Course first then, I should show you mine.
While del.icio.us and ma.gnolia.com and other similar social bookmarking services become more and more integrated into our browsers, I continue to keep certain bookmarks locally, in a GTD-esque style. I replicate (I know, there are [...]
Both Paul Stamatiou and Ronald Heft have thrown out solid thoughts on the possibility of Parallels being bought by Apple.
Boot Camp is lame, Virtual PC never made it off the starting line, and Parallels really has become a core app that Intel mac users have on their machines. It’s made leaps and bounds past anything [...]
I will be in the market for a new Mac in early 2007. I currently use a PowerBook G4-1.5GHz, 2GB ram, 15 inch screen; 80GB hard disk. I use this for tons of stuff, including but not limited to: podcast production (Audacity and iTunes); Office apps (MS Office; InDesign); blogging (Safari); web development (Firefox, PageSpinner, [...]
A couple days ago I began to write about this post by Zeldman. But then I saw it referenced in another place or two, and thought it not significant enough to devote my time to when a couple others already had. But this thing just keeps popping up, and it’s got me thinking [...]
In the past 4 years I’ve gone from the 17″ PowerBook, to a 15″ Powerbook, to a 13″ MacBook. Each time I’ve upgraded the system, but clearly downgraded the display size. I get by because of the 20″ LCD I connect to on my desk at home, so the shrinkage hasn’t been as [...]
While I’m certain most of us would love to put that Mac/Book Pro on our wishlists this holiday season, they’re probably not the most realistic choices. Accessories for your Mac however, are much more realistic and can hugely enhance your computing experience. Obviously there are a crap-ton of accessories to choose from, but [...]
Just a quick reminder. Don’t forget about Apple’s special one-day shopping event with tons of killer deals and free shipping for all good boys and girls.
I know I won’t even think about stepping foot near any retail store on Friday, but I might make use of some sweet online deals. Do you usually take advantage [...]
So I’ve been doing web development for almost a decade now, but I’ve never even come close to even thinking about developing for an operating system. I’m very interested in jumping in and getting my hands dirty with developing for OS X but honestly don’t have the slightest clue where to start.
What are some good [...]
My poor PowerMac G5 is literally caked with dust on the insides. What have you found to be the best way to clean out dust and keep everything nice and shiny?
This would include any tools, cleaning solutions, and whatever else would be necessary to make sure everything is as clean as it can be.
I got an iChat message from Paul yesterday, asking about a way to use music visualizations as a desktop ‘wallpaper’. My initial suggestion was to play with Quartz Composer and see about coming up with something there. I’ve come up with a couple more suggestions - which I’ll write about in a moment [...]
