Archive for the ‘Apple’ Category

I’ll be at Macworld Expo starting tomorrow night. As I usually do with trade shows (when I’m not already hopelessly over-booked), I like to be open and offer to meet with just about anyone… fans… people that want to write for the sites, all the way to companies exhibiting. Just hit the contact me link [...]

This is a great case study in explaining new technology to new users. Apple’s glass trackpad makes a lot of sense to people that have been using trackpads for years. Whenever I hand someone a MacBook with one… they take a look at it and are perplexed… sometimes scared. But then I tell them to [...]

While I suggested mainstream techies avoid Flash 10.1 Beta 1, the new beta is much better. 1080p YouTube now works flawlessly in Windows and Mac OS X. It’s actually quite impressive, especially considering Apple won’t let folks author QuickTime X plug-ins. I do have to take this moment to warn Apple that 2014 could very [...]

I’ve run into a bug, and am having a bit of trouble pinpointing who’s side it’s on. Here’s the long and the short of it. Take an SD card, format it on your (Snow Leopard) Mac for MS-DOS (FAT32). Now, insert it into a Windows Mobile device. As I’ve found, Windows Mobile won’t read the [...]

Tonight I attempted to purchase the upgrade from Bento 2 to Bento 3. It didn’t go perfectly. FileMaker is offering Bento 1 and Bento 2 users a discounted upgrade to Bento 3 for $29. I personally think Bento 2 users should have gotten more of a discount, considering the lightweight transitions. But, this is FileMaker, [...]

Well, they did ask Engadget to take that number down. It might be a marketing ploy to spread the news better, but still… 80,000 copies x $100 = $800,000 so far. Not bad considering that Woot sells 4.3-inch GPS units for just $15 more, including shipping. And yes, today’s Woot offering is exactly that… made [...]

Snow Leopard is out (well, it’s in customer’s hands anyways), and that means I’m finally free from the burden of NDAs. I have some gripes about Snow Leopard, I’ll get to my largest in a second. First, overall, it’s a progressive upgrade for Mac OS X. Exchange is nice, and the iPhone OS UI crossovers [...]

I know. You may be a guy or gal working in an office. Or, you may be a penny-pinching startup CEO like me. But even I justified paying $275 for an Intel X25-M SSD. And, I’ve got the perfect example of why it makes business sense. Sure, 17 second startups are great. But, I am [...]

I have two Mac systems that both MobileMe sync, and use Mozy. One is on a free account, the other is on unlimited service. And, today, I had to turn off MobileMe Preference Sync. I’ve stumbled on something that isn’t is a bug, but is a limitation of how the two products work together. Actually, [...]

Today, I got my MacBook Pro back from AppleCare (Main Logic Board failure, which I pinpointed to the faulty/recalled GeForce 8600M). And, I had a present for my anti-glare workhorse (oh snap, Chris just picked sides in the Apple screen wars). And, that present was an Intel X25-M. I had had it with my Samsung [...]