It’s kind of amazing when the passing of a person you never knew affects you. So it is with Steve Jobs. I was a bit shocked to hear of his death. I mean, it wasn’t surprising per se. When he finally bowed out of Apple, it was pretty obvious to me that he was dying. [...]
Not long ago I posted about my plan to aggressively filter bacn — messages that aren’t quite spam, but that I don’t actually want to read — out of my Inbox. So for three or four days, I let the bacn accumulate, and then I created a couple choice filters from that collection of mail. [...]
Apple has released Final Cut Pro X 10.0.1, a small point release with some important new — or maybe I should say “returned” — features. Most important among these is XML import/export which should allow users of FCPX to open their legacy FCP projects. But here’s the grind: I’m not sure how you’re supposed to [...]
Well, it wouldn’t be new OS season without some complaints, now would it? Yes, as always, I have some beefs. The inaugural article on this blog was a piece called Tiger Beefs. Tiger was — and remains — my least favorite Mac OS release of all time. I really hated it and couldn’t wait for [...]
I’ve recently realized that probably about two-thirds of my email is stuff I just don’t care about or want to read. But it’s not exactly spam, either, as it comes from trusted sources that, if only peripherally, I know or who know me from somewhere. Turns out there’s a name for this type of email: [...]
At long a last the time has come for me to post my impressions of Mac OS X 10.7, affectionately referred to as Lion. Lion is a mixed bag, for me. There are few areas where I think it really impresses and then some areas that are a bit less well thought out. Overall it’s [...]
I’m working on a fairly lengthy post about my Lion impressions. Meantime, here’s a funny I like from Malcontent Comics.
Two and a half years ago I switched from Web Hosting Buzz to MediaTemple for the web hosting of this site. When I made that switch I made it clear that I would be monitoring the situation, and that if MediaTemple’s hosting service ever became problematic, I would move on to yet another provider. Today [...]
Hi, folks! A lot has been going on here recently: Lion has been released, I’ve been playing with Final Cut Pro X, and I’ve migrated TASB — and all my other web sites as well — to a new hosting provider. Posts are in the pipe for all these things, and I’ll post them as [...]
Google has recently been rolling out redesigns of their flagship products, Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Maps, and, of course, Search. I have to say, I’m both pleased to see it and impressed with the results. I’ve argued several times now that, as great as Google’s products are, they could be made even better if [...]