Archive for the ‘Apple’ Category

To the smartasses: I win

I had a couple smartasses comment on my post about the craptastic MacBook Air, saying that I could use an USB EV-DO card. Except they suck. Well, here’s the answer to that:
Adding insult to injury: USB 3G modems won’t fit in the MacBook Air.
What’s up.

Had the credit card in hand..and then..

Apple released some pretty awesome stuff at MacWorld today. The MacBook Air is wicked. I want(ed) one. I had the credit card in hand. Thing is, not having an ExpressCard slot for an EVDO card is a total dealbreaker. WiFi just isn’t everywhere you want it to be, and even [...]

The Best Phone I’ve Ever Used….Except

I told myself I wasn’t going to do it. I told my friends I wasn’t going to do it. I kept convincing myself that I had a great plan with Sprint and as a customer for almost 10(!) years I was going to keep my wonderful Treo and not make the switch. [...]

Holy Crap I Found an Awesome OS X Feature

I got to thinking today that it would be neat if I could place a background image in my Terminal windows. See, I spend 99.9% of my time ssh’ed into other machines. I do all my development remotely on other boxes. It doesn’t really get confusing which box I’m on, but it [...]

The Mac is Back (with a Vengeance)

I grew up on Macs. From the Mac Plus, to the SE, to an LCIII (in color!!!) then a Performa 6220CD, and a B&W G3 350. I was always a Mac guy, but some time around the B&W the world of Linux lured me over. For about 7 years the Mac was only a secondary [...]