Category Archives: Macintosh

I called it. Apple’s posted An open letter to iPhone owners from Steve Jobs. Long story short, Apple will offer a $100 Apple Store credit to early iPhone buyers. The money quote? >Our early customers trusted us, and we must … Continue reading →

With today’s announcements and price cuts, the iPhone is the same price as the high-end iPod touch – $399US. They have the same screen, same UI, both have Wi-Fi. Looks like they both have the same annoying ultra-narrow sunk headphone … Continue reading →

Apple’s iPod revamp is impressive, but one of the announcements bound to piss people off is the new iPhone pricing. The 4GB iPhone is dead, dead, dead, and the 8GB iPhone has dropped to $399 from its launch price of … Continue reading →

So I didn’t even last 7 days – I bought an iPhone on Thursday thanks to the serendipity of window-shopping at the U Village Apple Store just as they got their “second wave” of iPhone stock. Having used Apple products … Continue reading →

Apple had said since their developer conference in 2006 (WWDC) that Leopard – the next version of MacOS X – would ship in Spring 2007. The timing of the 2007 WWDC (June) had everyone reasonably expecting that Apple would ship … Continue reading →

MacOS X 10.4.9 (Tiger) Parallels Desktop Build 3188 Ubuntu 6.0.6 LTS Server MacBook Pro 15″ (C2D 2.16) You’ll find that attempting to install from the “server” ISO results in a VM that hangs just after kernel decompression. So… Get the … Continue reading →

December of last year, Jenni and I were both using PowerBooks as our main computers. Me on a 15″ PowerBook, she on a 12″ PowerBook. As of this weekend, we’ve both shifted to iMacs at home: I’m using a 20″ … Continue reading →

Okay, two cool things – one for the homeowner in you, one for the mac geek. Leafblower. Damn. I bought a $70 leafblower back in early November to deal with the plethora of pine needles that had carpeted our front … Continue reading →