I know I haven’t posted much on the Mac recently, by Daring Fireball has an interesting take on the Microsoft/Apple rivalry: “In the very worst tradition of punditry, allow me to make a sweeping generalization based on a few almost completely unrelated observations: Microsoft is suffering from a lack of confidence, and Apple is brimming [...]
I know I kind of swore off proselytizing for Apple, but their latest ads have my favorite “Senior Expert” from the Daily Show in them, and, well, they gave me a chuckle, so I thought, maybe, just maybe, it’d be okay for me to send a chuckle your way. Check ‘em out.
Mac OS Rumors has a report that Apple is jumping on the BitTorrent bandwagon. Their sources are telling them that “Mac OS X 10.5 ‘Leopard’ will include a system-level ‘BitTorrent’ filesharing client that can be user-customized to ‘donate’ upstream Internet bandwidth for things like pushing Software Update packages to Leopard users, delivering iTunes Store content, [...]
April 23, 2006 – 04:09 pm
Last year about this time, I posted my final paper for my government 101 class up at Alaska Pacific University. It was called “The worm in the core,” and it was all about Apple’s lawsuit to find out who leaked its trade secrets to a couple of bloggers, bloggers who are protecting their sources because [...]
The New York Times is reporting that “Apple Computer introduced software today that it says will easily allow users to install Microsoft’s Windows XP operating system on Apple’s newest computers.” I think this is a smart move, or at the very least, a necessary move, since it was going to happen anyway, but I can’t [...]
I stopped using Apple’s Safari web browser months and months and months and months ago, making the switch to Mozilla’s FireFox, which was a great for a while. The themes and extensions for FireFox made it undoubtedly more valuable than Safari, which besides basic browsing, has little added-value besides an integrated RSS reader.
But then I [...]
March 28, 2006 – 11:38 am
Wired has set up a special section on its website in celebration of the fact that Apple Computers Inc turns 30 on April 1. One of the articles is a photo presentation of all the different variations of the Apple operating system that we have seen over the last 30 years.
February 3, 2006 – 09:59 pm
Every week (for at least two weeks in a row now), I write up a list of all the things I’ve learned over the past week. This is a special little treat that I like to file under Gobbledygook. But enough of the explanatory note. On with the show.
Here’s what I learned this week…
…from moving [...]
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January 20, 2006 – 04:27 pm
The NY Times is reporting that Steve Jobs may be selling Pixar to Disney for $6.8 billion, a majority of stock, and a directorship at Disney. This would probably be the first step to Jobs eventually becoming CEO of Disney. Not sure how I feel about that. On one side, it might be the closest [...]
December 20, 2005 – 02:03 pm
Microsoft has announced that Internet Explorer is no longer supported for the Macintosh. This isn’t a huge surprise. I think they may have said something a few months after Apple’s Safari first came out. But now it’s official. Good riddance, I say…though at the same time, IE for Mac always seemed so much better [...]
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