Mount a hard drive prior to SuperDuper backup
Wouldn’t it be nice if your OS X bootable SuperDuper-created backup disk could be mounted right before the nightly backup and unmounted right after to reduce wear and tear?
View ArticleInside the new 27-inch iMac
The new 27-inch Apple iMac reportedly puts the WiFi antenna behind the plastic Apple logo to get the best reception (the rest is aluminum). Brilliant fusion of form and function.
View ArticleApple to bring changes to retail stores
Finally, Apple is going to ditch their Windows CE-based point-of-sale devices and replace them with specialized iPod Touch devices for use in their flagship stores. Next, the handheld checkout devices...
View ArticleSteve Jobs on executive gender diversity
This is my answer too. Another shareholder urged the company to consider more women for executive and board positions; Jobs said it’s Apple policy to look for the best people, and that sometimes...
View ArticleRobot Touchscreen Analysis
Robot Touchscreen Analysis. This matches my real world experiences. The iPhone has uncannily accurate touch screen performance. Everything else seems like you’re trying to coax it into recognizing...
View ArticleThe cynical iPad?
Cory Doctorow wrote a scathing critique of the iPad. Well, not so much a critique of the iPad as a critique of the future of sealed-box, sealed-ecosystem computing that it portends. We should have seen...
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Apple forced to say Samsung didn’t copy the iPad
There’s an easy solution to Apple UK being in the awkward position of having a court order to take out “advertisements” outlining that they lost the lawsuit alleging that the Samsung Galaxy tablet was...
View ArticleThe 2015 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro
My history with portable Macs has been all over the place. I started in 2005 with a 15 inch PowerBook G4. In 2007 I upgraded to the ridiculously large 17 inch MacBook Pro. It weighed 6.8 pounds. Yeah....
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How Apple’s iCloud Drive deletes your files without warning
Apple’s iCloud Drive sounds great. […] with iCloud Drive, you can safely store all your presentations, spreadsheets, PDFs, images, and any other kind of document in iCloud. Then access them from your...
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