What percentage of attempts at doing a thing must be failures until that thing is deemed unreliable by a user and abandoned for another more effective method? I don’t know the answer, but whatever it is, Siri has passed it. Siri’s great when it works, it just so seldom does. The most common thing I [...]
There are two things that the controversy surrounding Siri’s apparent stance on abortion demonstrates. Siri is a believable and convincing enough piece of software to make people react to it as though it is a real person, with real thoughts and opinions. Most people either just have no clue how technology works, or no interest [...]
I recently mentioned a bug in the Photos app in iOS 5. What was happening to me was this: Open Camera app. Take photos. Look at Camera Roll from Camera app and verify that photos are there. Quit Camera app. Open Photos app. Navigate to Camera Roll. Photos app crashes. Open it again, and navigate [...]
So I’ve had my Verizon iPhone 4S for a few weeks now, and I thought I’d let you know how it’s been going. The Phone In many regards, this is the same phone I had a few weeks ago. The software is the same, the data is the same, most things are the same. And [...]
There’s been lots of discussion here about whether or not Apple has lost interest in the Pro market. The big turning point for me was the release of the wholly inadequate — at least for many video professionals — of Final Cut Pro. A complete ground-up rewrite of Apple’s flagship professional video editing application, for [...]
Here’s a Versions mistake I’ve made numerous times at this point. I open a document. I make some temporary or test changes — changes I don’t intend do actually keep. Once I’ve seen what I need to see, I quit the application. In the past I’d have been asked if I wanted to save the [...]
Here are a bunch of little things I’ve noticed, worthy of sharing but not big enough for their own post. A Lion Correction I had originally reported that one of my favorite new Lion features was that Quicklook stayed active even when switching away from the Finder to another app. This apparently only happens on [...]
Call me crazy, but I still prefer ASR for disk cloning. It’s simple and accurate. But ASR in Lion no longer allows file-level cloning. This means that block copying is now the only option. Block copying is great, but it requires the unmounting of both disks. This means that cloning a boot drive while booted [...]
I’m starting to not like Lion’s whole “Versions” implementation. It’s a system that’s supposed to simplify file management, but is, in fact, complicating it in certain situations. Case in point: Locked Files. Lion now locks files that haven’t been edited for a certain period of time. It does this in order to prevent accidental changes [...]
I’ll be honest: I wish I could stay with AT&T. I just pre-ordered an iPhone 4S. From Verizon. And while I’m excited to get the new phone, and thrilled at the prospect of improved call quality and coverage, I do feel a pang of regret at having to leave AT&T. I switched to AT&T when [...]