techno-culture

The NYT has this piece on notebooks, netbooks and the history of portability, and John Naughton blogs it with a couple of pics of his early ‘portables’. I had (actually, still have up in my attic as I can’t bear to part with my old friend) a ‘portable’ Mac SE from around 1990 with a [...]

Tags: Apple, Mac SE, netbooks

Wow. Very cool. Verrrrrrry fast. I like it. Like the “Top Sites” display and nice little zoom in feature — helpful to eyes that have a harder time reading very tiny print compared to days of yore. “Mail contents of this page” — love that. I use Firefox and Safari about equally, but this beta [...]

Tags: Safari 4

Let me count the ways… or rather let PC World, in a rather amusing column. I like reason 2: The store will have six different entrances: Starter, Basic, Premium, Professional, Enterprise, and Ultimate. While all six doors will lead into the same store, the Ultimate door requires a fee of $100 for no apparent reason. [...]

Apple still humming along nicely with record revenue passing the $10b mark. Bet they like those Mac and IPhone sales figures in particular as margins dip on iPods… :  Apple sold 2,524,000 Macintosh computers during the quarter, representing nine percent unit growth over the year-ago quarter. The Company sold a record 22,727,000 iPods during the quarter, representing [...]

…here. It’s been a learning curve all right, dealing with various formats. I should have the RSS feed set up shortly. This is in .m4a format, MP4. It is what Apple uses but weirdly I can download it in Firefox but not Safari — doh! Anyone know why? Edits are a bit rough so apologies [...]

I was doing some research for a piece for the Times on MacWorlds past, and dug up this piece I wrote from Macworld 12 years ago, when Steve returned to the fold. As a bit of historical documentation back when Apple’s demise was widely predicted, it might be of interest! I’d forgotten that even Muhammed [...]

Tags: Apple, MacWorld

Or several, really — the chatter increases as MacWorld gets ready to kick off next week, Steveless. Or might Steve be the one more thing? Or a revamped Mac Mini? New iMacs? A new CEO, even? How might MacWorld play out? John P. counts the ways.My first MacWorlds were in the Gil Amelio desert-like years [...]

Ah, yes, it’s that time of year again… when the Apple rumours start flying in advance of MacWorld in January (sadly, to be Job-less this year). MacRumors for example has found a listing on case maker XSKN’s site for a casing for an ‘iPhone nano’, suggesting such a mini iPhone may be in the offing. [...]

Tags: Apple, MacWorld

Just watching the Thomas Kurian keynote here at Oracle OpenWorld and noticed all the demos they are running are on a Mac. But they are Windows demos. I think that’s the first time I have seen big stage keynote Windows demos running natively on an Intel Mac. That made me wonder if it is a [...]

I finally, finally, finally, FINALLY got around to installing Mac OS X Leopard. Initially I waited to make sure there were no major issues; then I waited to find time to back up my Mac, then I waited to find time to find time. That turned out to be last night and I can say [...]

The Silicon Apartment, a comic strip whose premise is that Bill Gates (now that he has nothing to do) and Steve Jobs have to share an apartment in the Valley, paid for by Steve Ballmer  only too happy to get Gates out of the way — is one of the funniest things I have seen [...]

So Apple just surpassed Google’s market cap. An old boyfriend of mine (‘old’ as in, someone I knew from way back) asked me around the multi-coloured iMac stage if he should hang on to a bunch (a large bunch) of Apple stock. I said yes (probably after shrugging). If he did, he’s one happy guy these days. [...]