In the last several months, I’ve come face to face with something ugly: Television advertising.
We didn’t plan to let our television moulder. It happened by accident.
We missed the first season of Battlestar Galactica on television, but heard many good reviews. So we ordered the DVD in the autumn of 2005, and burned our way through [...]
Archive for the ‘Apple Computer’ Category
NBC Sucks Again*
Posted in Apple Computer, Internet, Television on November 19, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Canada: Is It Time to Boycott Apple?
Posted in Apple Computer on October 16, 2007 | 19 Comments »
What’s wrong with these pictures? The first is a screenshot from the online US Apple store today; the second is a screenshot from the online Canadian Apple Store.
For decades, Canadians have had to pay more for Apple software and hardware, and it was almost fair, for it reflected the difference between our respective currencies. In [...]
The Cat is Coming
Posted in Apple Computer on October 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Apple has just announced that Leopard — Mac OS X (10.5) — will be released on October 26.
Shiny!
If any of you need a new computer, and you’ve been running Windows XP or Vista, you really need to look at Apple’s desktops and laptops running Leopard. Mac OS X the world’s most advanced operating system, runs [...]
Voyage to MarsEdit
Posted in Apple Computer, Writing on September 5, 2007 | 15 Comments »
It always surprises me when I discover writers who don’t use Macs. As a long-time Apple advocate, I’m convinced that my platform of choice is refined and elegant, and that Mac users have far fewer computer problems than our Microsoft brethren. But that’s not the reason for this post.
I love OS X for the software. [...]
iPhone impressions by Gruber and the Scobleizer
Posted in Apple Computer, Internet on June 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
John Gruber, Mac pundit extraordinaire, waited in a Philadelphia lineup for hours to be one of the first iPhone adopters.
His early thoughts.
And Robert Scoble agrees, suggesting that it does the impossible. It lives up to the hyperbole.
Apple iPhone: I Believe
Posted in Apple Computer, Internet on June 27, 2007 | 2 Comments »
The iPhone interests me as an Apple accolyte, and as someone who adopts new technologies before anyone else — when he can afford it. (Which, these days, is never).
But it will be some time before the iPhone comes to Canada, and it will be years before I could ever afford one. Kristina and I have [...]
Greenpeace VS a Greener Apple
Posted in Apple Computer, Being Green on May 2, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The Mac faithful are buzzing tonight, hours after Apple gave Greenpeace the one finger salute.
Greenpeace had it wrong. Apple isn’t the computer company with the worst environmental record, as guest blogger Keith Ripley explained on Treehugger some time ago.
Without a doubt, Greenpeace needs to do a better job. I suspect they picked a fight with [...]
AppleTV Canada: The lamest thing since Dot Mac
Posted in Apple Computer, Internet, Television on May 1, 2007 | 1 Comment »
When it comes to Apple, I drink the Kool-Aid. I’ve owned and used Apple Computers for 21 years. I even nominated Steve Jobs for an honorary degree at my alma mater.
But AppleTV in Canada has to be the lamest thing the company has done since the days of… er… charging an annual fee for Dot [...]
Ten Mac Apps I Recommend Highly
Posted in Apple Computer, Internet on April 26, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Since the new Intel Macs can run Windows and Windows software, on-the-fence potential switchers have no real reason not to buy from Apple. It will be the smartest decision you’ve ever made.
Nevertheless, all the software that I need to run a Mac — productively, efficiently and creatively — is already available for OS X. Here [...]
Steve, Al… I’d like to introduce Jim Reid*
Posted in Apple Computer, Being Green on April 3, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I could solve Apple’s — and Al Gore’s — Greenpeace woes with a simple introduction.
Al Gore is an Apple director, so it’s not surprising that close to 70 environmental and social justice groups are asking the former US president vice-president to use his insider status to create changes at Apple. These groups claim that my [...]
