All things related to Apple Inc. including Apple hardware and Apple software (OSX)
This past week Google announced Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) and a new flagship phone (Galaxy Nexus) to show off their new software. Inadvertently, they also killed Android, and I couldn’t be more happy. Depending on who you ask, Android is winning the smartphone market. The problem is Android is such a fragmented...
Read more →After doing this two years I figured I needed to continue my tradition. If you want to see how right or wrong I was in previous years check out my 2009 predictions and 2010 predictions. Computers 1. First of all 2011 will be the year of the tablet. That isn’t a prediction, it’s more...
Read more →I was thinking the other day, you know what my site needs? More rants. That is exactly what I bring you today cause I am finally fed up with something in the technology industry. What exactly am I fed up with? Well, a lot of things, but this particular post is about the complete...
Read more →It was fun doing this last year. So I thought I would have another go at it and see what I come up with. Computers: 1. Netbooks/sub-12″ laptops will be even bigger than before because they will finally be useful. Atom/ULV processors, Ion/Tegra graphics, and touch enabled devices will make having a 17″ laptop...
Read more →I thought I would follow up on my predictions for last year and see how I did. Computers: 1. Multitouch – While this didn’t make as big of a push as I hoped, hardware development is very slow in a recession, there have been announcements of hardware coming out in 2010 that defiantly take...
Read more →After my post on modifying default user settings in Vista I thought I should follow up with how to accomplish a similar thing in OSX. For OSX there is only one way to accomplish this, and that way is the manual way. Just like with the manual way in Vista set up two user...
Read more →Of course the easy answer is yes, and I know that when you buy DRM’d music (or even non-DRM’d CD’s) you technically don’t “own” the music. You just own the rights to play the music. I thankfully have never bought a single song from iTunes but their announcement about paying to free your library...
Read more →I have never done this before but I thought I would take a swing and making some predictions at what I think is going to happen this year with technology. Computers: 1. Smaller, faster, better. Duh. That is obvious but I think there will be some big improvements in “alternate” input for computers. Apple...
Read more →I saw this at The Unofficial Apple Weblog and thought it was nice because I hate that you can’t see what folder you are in by default. Open a terminal and type: defaults write com.apple.finder _FXShowPosixPathInTitle -bool YES And you have your location at the top of the window. I don’t even have a...
Read more →I bought the mac mini for a few reasons: 1. It is very small and very quiet 2. It looks good with my AV equipment 3. There are a lot of accessories that match the looks of the mini 4. It came with good enough specs for video playback and recording The main problem...
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