First off, I had no idea that the Mac OS X 10.6.4 update affected Mail. Probably because Apple never bothered to mention it in the release notes. Nonetheless, this greets me after launching Mail post-update: I’m also surprised at how much I’m liking iBooks for my iPhone. There are tons of free, interesting-sounding books, and [...]
Much has already been said about the high-profile features in the new iOS 4. But there are also a bunch of smaller, subtler changes that I really enjoy. Mail Gmail settings for mail, calendars and notes are now all integrated and accessible from one attractive page. To take advantage of this change you’ll have to [...]
Is it just me or does it strike anyone else as somewhat strange that the new Find My iPhone application is for the iPhone? Uh, guys, if I can install an app on it, it’s probably not that lost. I mean, how many of these things do you think I own? Oh… A lot, I [...]
I’m not sure I’m ready to ditch Firefox. In fact, on my home system I have no need to. It does everything I need and is reasonably fast and responsive enough. But at work it’s another story. Because at work I’m relegated to using old, outdated PPC hardware. For most of the work I’ve been [...]
Gruber points out that the flat edges on the iPhone 4 make it “feel much more like a camera.” It occurs to me that those flat sides might also have the added benefit of allowing one to place the iPhone on a flat surface while shooting, for hands-free video recording, for instance, self-portraits, or longer FaceTime [...]
Just poking around the new Safari 5 today. Here’s what I’ve noticed so far. Safari 5 still has no way to restore an accidentally closed tab. UPDATE: One of my fine readers points out in the comments that you can now hit command-z (or choose “Undo Close Tab” from the File menu) to restore an [...]
There seems to be no end in sight to the anti-freedom arguments being leveled against Apple. I see new ones every day. And I maintain that the problem with the majority of these arguments is that they misdirect or conflate the wrong things. A recent example comes from Mr. Dave Winer (via Daring Fireball). Winer, [...]
For some time now I’ve had an odd problem on my MacBook wherein my Time Machine firewire drive appears to spontaneously, and without reason, disconnect. No warning is produced, no error message appears. It always happens, in fact, when the computer is not in use. I leave the system on, say, while a large backup [...]
Two small but exciting improvements revealed today. 1. Google has at last made some design improvements to their search results (via Daring Fireball). I wrote about my frustration with Google’s lack of design vision some time ago. It’s great to finally see them trying to improve their usability and their aesthetic at the same time. [...]
I don’t know, my eyes have been bugging me lately. Chalk it up to old age. But the fact is, it was getting so I could barely stand to look at my own blog, what with the high contrast, bright blue color scheme and all. So I’ve changed the colors. Not as exciting as the [...]