Tag: Macintosh

New Mac Pro: The Baby Is Born

The new Mac Pro computer arrived last Thursday*, and I spent the next 24 hours setting it up. It’s amazingly fast, and Final Cut Pro actually runs on it without the horrid beach ball spinning every time I attempt to do anything! I think I’ve pretty much set up everything, though I’m sure I’ll bump into a few odds and… Continue reading

B&H Photo Video, What’s Wrong?!

Over the years I’ve made numerous purchases (tens of thousands of dollars) from B&H Photo Video in New York City. They have good prices and a quick turn around. Additionally, I immediately save 8.5% because they don’t bill sales tax. On January 14, 2014, I ordered a totally decked out new Apple Mac Pro. They said it would be available… Continue reading

UPDATED: I Asked Siri…

I asked Siri what she thought of the verdict in the Apple vs. Samsung patent infringement case today. This is what she said: And this is what Tim Cook said to Apple employees today: Today was an important day for Apple and for innovators everywhere. Many of you have been closely following the trial against Samsung in San Jose for… Continue reading

The Apple Kool-Aid

From time to time over the past 30 years, I have definitely drunk the Apple Kool-Aid–that reality distortion field inducing, cult-like elixir that is nothing short of being the nectar of the gods. Well, hat tip to my friend Mark for tipping me off to the fact that Apple has begun selling it. (From Scoopertino) Their entire short article is… Continue reading

Apple’s Ca$h Re$erve Exceeds Fed Ca$h Re$erve!

Yes, apparently it’s true. U.S. Treasury now has an operating cash balance of $73.8 billion.  Apple has $76.2 billion. So the world’s most valued technology company surpasses the fiscal resources of the world’s failing super power.  This is truly an interesting time—when transglobal corporations are more powerful than the major governments of the world. Nationalism will probably continue to diminish… Continue reading

@Adobe Lost a Customer Today

@Adobe is a case study in what is wrong with corporate America:  remaining insulated from its current and potential  customers, apparently internally disconnected, charging high prices, outsourcing customer service that is ill-equiped or forbidden by corporate policy to solve a problem, having policies that disregard the needs of prospective customers on a software product that retails for a whopping $1,000.… Continue reading

Now That’s Clever

I’ve found a couple apps for the Mac and/or the iPhone that are curious. Xslimmer This app removes the extra PowerPC code that makes your applications work on both the PowerPC chip and the Intel chip.  After the application is slimmed down, it will only work on the Intel chip.  Hello, I gave my last old PowerPC Mac away a… Continue reading

Sadly Ironic

Today Apple sold its 10,000,000,000th (that’s billionth) song at the iTunes Store—all in less than 7 years. The music industry can gripe all it wants, but Apple has made them a lot of money they would otherwise have lost to file sharing! Today’s Business Insider has this headline: Blockbuster Collapses: Shutting Down 500 Stores In Desperate Bid To Save $200… Continue reading

And Then, in One Sickening Moment, It Dawned On Me…

I just read this from a blog I follow and had a sickening realization: You may have heard that I don’t do iPhone or iPad development at this time. That said, it’d be silly to not keep track of what Apple is up to with the platform they care for most.” … [Source: Install Beta Developer Tools In Sparse Disk… Continue reading

My Loathsome AppleTV

I have blogged in the past about how much I hate the AppleTVs here at the house. Let me add to the tirade. With the latest upgrades, neither AppleTV (upstairs or downstairs) will play the photos from iPhoto on any computer in the house. Ready to work out, watch photos, listen to music… Well, No. Of course not. I’ve spent… Continue reading