Category: Technology

I’ve been full time on an iPhone project (more of a prototype, really) for one day, and I absolutely love it.

Here are a few things I’ve noticed that just don’t make sense in Mac OS X v10.5. Desktop & Screen Saver rolled into a single preference pane. Why? Are we that convinced that one day we’re going to have a screen saver running in the background as our desktop, and the only way to configure… Continue reading Mac OS X interface flaws

The new Microsoft commercial starts with a John Hodgman dressalike (You can’t really call him a lookalike, but at the distance the camera is at it doesn’t matter) saying “I’m a PC and I’ve been stereotyped.” It then goes to various people asserting they’re a PC. It’s interesting at first, but after a few seconds… Continue reading Microsoft doesn’t get it

Bruce over on WarpedVisions writes on entering the world of Objective-C and Cocoa development.

I first started developing an application for Palm in 2000 with the Palm IIIc. I was amazed at how well-thought out the API was. A few things were missing, such as POSIX-compatible routines. ((Expecting full POSIX support on a Palm back then was maybe a little unrealistic, but expecting the available routines to match POSIX… Continue reading The sad case of Palm

It’s way too early to tell if LaCie is still the “all that and a bag of chips” hard drive company, but I can tell you this right away: The case is the best external case I’ve ever personally bought, and probably better than the stackable system Discovery bought from LaCie over a decade ago.… Continue reading LaCie Quadra d2

I’ve been using this iMac for a few weeks, and I’ve noticed an odd melty-plastic smell from time to time. I didn’t associate it with the iMac, though; the top of the iMac was hot, but not unbearably so.

I picked up a nice, shiny 24” iMac on Friday from Simply Computing in Langley for my employer to replace my elderly Core Solo mini. Monday, Apple refreshed the model. I realized I didn’t actually mind at all, but it seemed it might be worth a quick email:

Gruber at Daring Fireball writes about the restriction of one application at a time on the iPhone. Read it before you go on. Writing a background task for Touch OS X would be very, very hard. Well, actually, not so much hard as taking a lot of skill, time and effort. I can really understand… Continue reading One App At a Time… Always?

So I’m about five days into my free .Mac trial, and I thought I’d write up some thoughts. I pay about $60 per year for 500 GB of storage and 5 TB of bandwidth from DreamHost. .Mac costs $100 per year. For that much, it should be really, really special. On a strictly numerical level,… Continue reading .Mac thoughts