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Lion Officially Comes Out Tomorrow →
Apple Insider gets it right again.
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Preparing for OS X Lion
So it sure looks like OS X Lion is going to come out this week. I’ll be upgrading pretty quickly, depending on how many of my programs are ready to go. The Mac Power Users podcast has a nice rundown on how to prep your system. I’d also add that a new OS (whether you’re able to do a clean install or not) offers a great opportunity to set up some security measures that you might not have done before. … Continue reading
OS X, Lion and iCloud
So after a week of letting the WWDC Keynote sink in, I think I’m pretty excited about what’s coming over the next few months. Unfortunately, and unsurprisingly, my trusty Rev A MacBook Pro has seen its last major OS release with Snow Leopard but all good things must come to an end. Some of the changes with respect to iCloud make me worry about a couple things, but there’s more on that in a bit. I think it’s a little … Continue reading
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Thing of the Week – iOS Home Sharing: The Missing Link
This weekend brought some much needed rain on Saturday followed by 80 degrees and sun for Sunday afternoon. What a perfect time to clean off the deck, crack a bottle of Sauvignon Blanc and fire up the grill. The only thing missing is music, right? One of the few gripes about the iPad last year was it’s inability to access my entire music library wirelessly. It made little sense that I should be able to push music from my iPad … Continue reading
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How I Use the iPad
The iPad easily eclipses my laptop, iPhone and iPod as my favorite device. With the impending release of the second generation iPad I’m sure that the question of which apps to take a look at will be coming more and more. The iPad is an inherently personal device and everyone I know seems to use theirs just a little bit differently. Without further ado, here’s my list of apps that I recommend which I may update from time to time. … Continue reading
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Network Intel Script
I’ve known about GeekTool and it’s open source cousin, NerdTool since before I even switched from Windows to OS X. For some reason, I always stayed away. Perhaps it was terrible flashbacks to those desktop customization tools like StarDock which takes a professionally designed interface and lets people with no design sense remake their user interface in ways which bog down the system. So far, NerdTool has shown no signs of this nasty behavior. I started considering using this tool … Continue reading
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The Daily Disappointment
The Daily, a digital only newspaper produced by News Corp [launched this week][1] to a pretty high amount of fanfare. Since the iPad was announced close to a year ago, there has been a lot of speculation about how it can reshape the landscape of journalism and paid for content distribution. Taking away the ability for content providers to take advantage of subscriptions, the Daily does a great job of showing how not to persuade people to start paying for … Continue reading
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The Price of Apple’s Retail Success
I started looking around to find out what it will cost to have the internal drive replaced, and it’s turned out to be a bit of a frustrating experience. I’d talked to Ax0n about doing this ourselves down in the cave, but if it was going to be somewhat reasonable I’m happy to have someone do the swap that is used to taking these things apart on a regular basis. Even though I just know that the Apple Store will … Continue reading
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Adobe Loves Google
I’m not sure exactly what it was that Steve Jobs did to make the upper management at Google so mad, but it must have been bad. In the latest salvo in the resulting battle, Google has started using tactics of a monopolist to the detriment of content producers and users alike. As anyone who has taken a mid-level economics course or an anti-trust class in law school can explain, it’s not that being a monopolist is bad just because you’re … Continue reading
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Coping With (And Avoiding) Drive Failure
It’s a scenario that can happen to anyone, at any time and without warning. One moment you’re working away, enjoying a nice cup of coffee and the next your Mac hangs. As you try to figure out what’s going on, you notice that nothing is working. Placing some faith in the traditional OS X voodoo, you reset the PRAM (no help) and pop in the installation disc to repair permissions. Red text everywhere. Maybe repair will work! Nope. Frantically you … Continue reading
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