I get really annoying when I find a new toy. I tell every person I know about it, I construct my day around it, and every answer to every question passes through the new toy neuron in my head. This means if you ask me, “Hey Rands, what’s 7 + 3?” I first think, “How… more
There has been a small buzz anti-buzz building against the 17″ with the folks I hang out with they’re commenting on the fact that “it’s WAY too big?”, “the 15″ inch is the sweet spot”, or “it’s going to bend’n’twist”. Every single one of these people are a) full of crap, b) totally wrong, and… more
Just found this in the my referral logs — http://organica.us/. Seems to be of the same nature as daypop, blogdex where the goal is to track buzz.
Spent a good portion of the day at MacWorld… saw the keynote… lots of interesting news regarding this elsewhere. You know where to look. Random_very_tired thoughts mixed in with PRETTY CRAPPY PHOTOGS: Safari is fast. I’ve used it for most of the second half of the day and visting my regular suit of sites. Noticably… more
This being my first MacWorld as a Mac-ite, it’s fascinating to watch the rumor flurries increase in intensity. I’ve been perusing rumour sites, but now Reuters, Forbes, and News.com are in on the game. Now, if the big news guys have any more credibility (which is debatable) than the little rumor guys, you’ve GOT to… more
Dan Gillmor lays out the pros and cons and on Apple should move OS X to the x86 platform. See any themes from the Apple 2003 column?
iPulse has been sitting in the lower left hand corner of two of my computers since Xmas. To date, it’s identified two issues with OS X that I probably would not have noticed if I wasn’t running it. Problem #1 was a runaway SystemUIServer process. I noticed it this morning when iPulse began reporting unusually… more
The Apple Luxury Tax column generated a huge amount of discussion. In fact, in preparation for a response, I printed out the comments and the final page count was just under twenty pages. Jesus, folks like to discuss all things Apple. There were many issues that I wanted to comment on, but upon reading and… more
