I bought an iPad on opening day. As I said in my initial observations, I really needed to hold one, see it and feel it, before I could have a sense of whether I wanted one.
So I wandered down that Saturday afternoon to give one a shot. I wanted to see 3 things: …
Have you bought a pair of bluetooth stereo headphones and paired them up to your Mac?
Have you noticed that they sound crappy and tinny?
There’s a reason!
Turns out that the default minimum quality in OS X is pretty low. I guess the OS and the bluetooth device negotiate this, and if the device doesn’t provide …
We all know about the newest apple device by now, here are my impressions:
Big iPhone: This was a really good decision on Apple’s part. It would have been a major mistake to put the full version of Mac OS X on this machine. It needs an OS that is rooted in the touch interface …
Yesterday I got my Apple Magic Mouse, and here are my quick first impressions:
Design is beautiful as you would expect Had to download the driver, and uninstall USB overdrive before I had access to all the mouse’s functions. Scrolling from anywhere is awesome Same “lift left finger for right click” mechanic. Lame. You think they’d be …
Do fonts look like crap on your shiny new copy of snow leopard?
That’s probably because Snow Leopard now relies on your monitor to tell your machine that it’s an LCD. Unfortunately, many LCDs including both of my Dell displays don’t do this. So you get no sub-pixel anti-aliasing. Bad times.
But don’t fret. …
As of right now, I have a Drobo filled with 1TB drives that I’m pretty happy with. After a couple of weeks of pain the new Drobo has settled down, and we’re peacefully co-existing.
But I’m running out of space. With 4 1TB drives, you end up with about 2.7TB of usable space, and …
I’ve been very reluctant to buy a Kindle. Not because I don’t think e-readers are a great technology. They are. I’ve been reluctant because when you use a Kindle, you’re entering a walled garden. The books you “buy” don’t have the same benefits as a printed book. You cannot loan …
There have been lots of people running into lots of issues with 10.5.7. Since I’ve run into a few myself I thought I would piss into the wind here and let the anonymous masses know my pain.
1. Display profiles lost on wake from sleep
This one has been around at least since 10.5.4 but has …
About 6 months ago I bought a Firewire Drobo with wide eyes and big expectations. I’ve had a growing video and audio library that was getting tedious to keep all on one drive. The idea of having a machine that automatically expands by popping in a new drive was awfully sexy.
In the past I’ve …
Okay, Safari 4 is now released, and thank god they abandoned top tabs. Whew.
But for some reason, they kept the stop/reload madness.
In the past, the Safari combined the stop and reload buttons and pinned this new button directly to the left of the address bar. This made great sense, because the address bar …