Just wanted to share some of my initial reactions to Apple’s recent announcements at WWDC 2011. iCloud First off, iCloud. iCloud is really the engine behind the bulk of this year’s significant announcements. As I see it, iCloud provides centralized storage and services that are primarily aimed at managing all your various devices — your [...]
Apple recently gave a sneak peek to some very lucky folks at NAB of the upcoming release of Final Cut Pro, now dubbed Final Cut Pro X. The “X” seems appropriate as it looks like Final Cut has finally made it into the world of modern applications written for a mature, modern and cool-as-hell Operating [...]
Another Xcode update, another bad App Store experience. This one was the best so far, but still not perfect. After the last update I pretty much just gave up and started keeping the Install Xcode.app in the /Applications folder where it’s expected, despite the 4.5 gigs it takes up. So when I went to update [...]
So after purchasing and downloading Xcode via the App Store only to discover I didn’t have enough disk space to install the app, I came up with an acceptable, if less than ideal, workaround. I’m not terribly happy with the state of things, but hey, at least I was able to get things back to [...]
I have to say, installing Xcode 4 from the Mac App Store was one of the worst software installation experiences I’ve ever had. Thwarted Expectations For starters, the big appeal to me of downloading and installing stuff from the App Store is that I don’t have to manage it. All that management stuff is handled [...]
Every time I start thinking about switching to Google’s Chrome browser, they go and do something like this. Dropping H.264 support brings them right on par with my current and still favorite browser: Firefox. Yes, it bugs me that Firefox doesn’t support H.264. But if Chrome won’t support it either, then that leaves me with [...]
UPDATE 5/1/11: If you’ve been having trouble syncing multiple calendars to your iPhone, it’s because Google has added an extra step to the process. I’ve added a bit about Google’s new required iPhone sync utility to the Set Up Your iPhone section for folks with multiple calendars. As always, happy syncing! I keep getting comments [...]
Boy, you’d think by now Apple could nail a launch, but it seems like they always have problems if it’s something web-based (MobileMe, I’m looking at you). Case in point, my first attempt at a purchase in the Mac App Store: Some nice touches, my purchased apps — even ones purchased outside the Mac App [...]
Dropbox has finally reached 1.0. This is a significant milestone for the venerable file sharing and syncing application and service. With version 1.0 come some notable new features. For one, the preferences pane has undergone a facelift. Also note here the new Selective Sync, which allows you sync only certain folders on a given system: [...]
The latest Firefox 4 beta is really nice. I particularly like the minor refinements to the tabs. The tabs in 4.0b7 look pretty much like Firefox 3.6′s tabs: The tops are rounded; the bottoms, where the tab connects to the page, are square; the color of a background tab is nearly the same as the [...]