Puppies, Flowers, Rainbows and Kittens

Guess I’m not strolling into a store tomorrow to pick one up after skipping standing in the hot sun for three days.

sometimes when my MBP turns off the monitor for power save, when it re-activates, the screen is black. I get the password dialog, but then the screen is black. If I hit the power button, I get the dialog for sleep/restart/cancel, but if cancel, the screen is black. Weirdest of all, if I hit fn-F8 [...]

I find it hilarious to read some of the comments in news stories on technology companies, especially from folks who don’t write software for a living. A lot of the evil that people accuse Microsoft of is really incompetence, short sightedness, tunnel vision or good intentions misinterpreted. People hate Microsoft, so they choose to see [...]

Apple has a problem. How do they attract and keep developers on their platform? They created an Apple-only API that requires a variant of C long thought dead. Developers aren’t so keen on having to learn a new programming language that doesn’t give them any advantage over their existing ones and ties them to a [...]

The coolest recent Apple announcement is the upgrade to the MacPros, in my book. The Air is cute, but for a little extra heft, the MacBook is still a better computer in every way. And the MacBook is still underpowered for my taste. Who really cares about thin? Once you are hitting that sub 14″ [...]

There are three rules that everyone knows. Never Get Out of the Boat Never Get Involved in a Land War in Asia Never upgrade your Apple OS if things are working fine. I’d been on 10.4.8 on my main get-work-done machine for a while. There was no reason to upgrade. It was solid. I had [...]

Apple – Hot News Third Party Applications on the iPhone Let me just say it: We want native third party applications on the iPhone, and we plan to have an SDK in developers’ hands in February. We are excited about creating a vibrant third party developer community around the iPhone and enabling hundreds of new [...]

I was reading this great post from Scoble: Why doesn’t Microsoft get the love? « Scobleizer which was spot-on, but for some reason it got me thinking about Apple instead of Microsoft. I think Apple is in serious trouble. The Amazon digital download store is much better than the iTunes store. Not the design or [...]

Apple: No BS iPhone Review – Gizmodo I think I’ve been a fairly restrained geek for pretty much ignoring it on my blog before now. No, I don’t own one. No, I don’t plan on buying one… yet. Like the gizmodo writer, there are some fundamental things missing for me: MMS being something I use [...]

Apple distributed a different build of 10.4.10 to those using MacBook Pros to fix a problem with the audio, which in itself is all good. No one wants to have crummy audio on their laptops. One MAJOR glitch though, since this means that my MBP has essentially a different version of the OS than the [...]