Archive for the 'Technology' Category

Good Products Gone Bad

Tuesday, April 17th, 2007

I love my Apple iPod Nano. This is a product that, even more than my first iPod, has changed my life. The combination of size, style, and ease of use make it so appealing that I’ve allowed it to become a major part of my daily routine. I rarely do a household chore without it, […]

Who Influences You?

Monday, March 26th, 2007

MacTech is running their annual voting process for the People’s Choice MacTech 25. This is basically an opportunity to recognize some of the important members of our technical community. While most of the world is more interested in the highest ranking members of the Macintosh community (people like Steve Jobs), we developers and technical types […]

AppleTV Works With “Normal” TVs

Thursday, March 22nd, 2007

Paul Kafasis of Rogue Amoeba got a chance to play with Apple’s newest toy, and discovered that it’s not quite as off-limits to us old-timers as Apple might have suggested! This is the unusual situation where a new product claims a certain limitation but is actually quite more forgiving. Paul discovered that Apple TV actually […]

MacBreak Weekly Mentions

Wednesday, March 14th, 2007

Wow! What a thrill to be listening to one of my favorite podcasts, MacBreak Weekly, and suddenly Leo Laporte is uttering my name, and expressing his satisfaction about my acquisition of MarsEdit. And then I think I was so excited that I started hallucinating, because it almost sounded like Merlin Mann chimed in about FlexTime, […]