Will my gadget lust survive the iPhone?
(Originally posted Feb. 3) Bruce Tognazzini has an excellent review of the iphone here. It’s a good article, although it’s a little odd that he wrote the whole thing having never touched an iPhone… The...
View ArticleSwitching to Mac: impressions after a week
(Originally posted Feb. 3) My career was built on a Mac. I used them faithfully and enthusiastically for 10 years. When Excite bought my company, Go Media, in 1996 I had to switch to PCs. I’ve been...
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(Originally posted Feb. 3) Installing Windows on my Mac has been, by far, the most painful aspect of switching. The fact that I could run Windows programs side by side the Mac OS – no need to reboot –...
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Should I take the money?
What’s an ethical businessperson to do? Following the announcement that the 8 Gig iPhone price would drop by $200, Apple announced in an open letter that they would give a $100 rebate per phone to...
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And you thought you got a lot of mail…
That’s right — according to my mail reader (Apple Mail 3.1), I have 4 billion, 294 million, 966 thousand and 24 messages in my mailbox. Only 2 unread though, thankfully. Weird. It’s been this way...
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Fanboy architects?
These aluminum structures are actually for sale in Canada. Think the architects have been spending too much time with their iPod chargers? The post Fanboy architects? appeared first on Jules Says.
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Clothes make the Mac
I don’t need a new Mac laptop. Ok, I admit, that’s never stopped me before. But really, the MacBook Air, stunning though it may be, is not for me. I do lust after the multitouch trackpad. I’ve been...
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The decline of usability in OS X and iOS
Apple’s UX/UI has been getting worse for a while now. There were changes to iOS 7 that I really didn’t like, but I figured I’d get used to them. I didn’t. iOS 8 had a handful of annoyances I assumed...
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Workaround for the missing Open With… option in Apple Photos
Another UI Fail from Apple. Photos has no Open With… option. I’m sure I’m not the only one who used this in iPhoto all the damn time. What reason could there possibly be for this change? You can export...
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