Much as MobileMe, the precursor to iCloud had a fair share of problems, and much as iCloud at times seems somewhat anaemic in its service offerings, a piece of core functionality in both has been content sharing for addresses, appointments, and so on. Notifications in iOS took a substantial improvement …
A few days ago a University buddy asked me if I’d mind blogging about the factors that led me to the point of being such a strong Apple enthusiast. I’d like, from the outset, to clarify that I’m not a fanboy. I’m a technologist; indeed, frequently those who lump me …
If I had to name one bugbear about iOS vs Mac OS X, it would be this: thanks to the two of them using different names for the same app, it doesn’t matter whether I’m on iOS or I’m on OS X, I constantly find myself briefly befuddled when I …
Honestly, Lion was in beta testing for how many months, and I have to put up with this shit when switching spaces? And no, I’m not the only one – other users are reporting it, and a quick Twitter survey even for me confirmed it. I switch spaces hundreds of times …
Recently Parallels Desktop for the Mac was updated to v6, and like the last couple of major version upgrades, the update process was a fairly seamless process. I run Parallels Desktop on both my Mac Book Pro and my Mac Pro. On my MBP, I typically run just a single …
Everyone knows that I like working with Apple products. Much as I love Apple products, and I find myself at my most productive on them, there are of course times when various features in UI design seem to have … failed … somewhat, and those little failures sometimes drive me …
I was struck this morning by how wrong one of the standard attacks on Apple’s Macintosh computers are. Windows fanboys in particular will exclaim: Macs are all form over function. Nothing, I realised, could be further from the truth. In fact, the regular PC industry, as well as the non-Apple …
Here’s my “top 5″ Mac apps that I just consider to be so indispensable that I install them by default when I’m building myself a new system. No hesitation, no questioning, they just get installed while I’m still running the first round of patches: Growl – A system-wide notification system …
Several years ago I read what I considered to be the ultimate description of the difference between Mac OS X and Windows. This really, really stuck with me, but the URL didn’t. I finally managed to stumble across it again today. The article was a comparison by Network Computing between Mac …
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