On the desktop
Don’t let anyone tell you that the desktop is dead. Attentive rb readers will notice the prodigious blogging of the last few weeks after a long hiatus. I can only chalk it up to my newly acquired blog...
View ArticleA random note on the iPad
Of course it’s for content creation. Anyone who would buy a quote-unquote netbook for content consumption, let alone creation, over the iPad needs to reset the user agent of his browser. Ninety percent...
View ArticleSnow job
Imagine my shock when, without warning, Snow Leopard 10.6.3 began acting like Windows Vista. Call me naïve, but I do not expect a point upgrade to cause a weird sleep-to-wake glitch, especially when...
View ArticleThe glue I’ve been looking for
Seldom do I feel like a genius. But my discovery of sips, Platypus and CocoaDialog has brought me close to the perception of IQ>150. Simple problem, difficult solution. Ever had that observation in...
View Article.DS_Store, –delete-excluded, and RB at the CLI
randomlybolded.com is back up after a fatal error last night. The problem Immediate post-mortem casual analysis: PEBKAC. Lesson learned. DO NOT USE UNTESTED CLI OPTIONS WITHOUT KNOWING EXACTLY WHAT...
View ArticleMac to the future
I am hardly the first to the Leopard-less developer conference blog party. But I will add a few words about why Mail and document controllers and launch services should still matter. Email is not dead....
View ArticleGPSies: Gets the job done
Ugly but functional, GPSies does what its name may or may not suggest (depending what language you speak). What is GPSies anyway? An odd play on the word “gypsy”? Effectively a mobile ad you can use,...
View ArticleAccident prone
Apparently today was a day of accidents. Wrecks. Spills. Whatever you prefer to call them. Lance had three—the first of which most considered a “novice” crash. I’m no Lance, but my first wreck since...
View ArticleCutting the cord
I finally did it. I cut the cord. randomlymarried and I will review and report periodically on this random, and indeed bold, experiment in coming months. A few first impressions: aTV’s user interface...
View ArticleCutting the cord II: Cancellation
You would think a dying business model, threats to profitability in analogous markets, and nascent but determined competition in a once-protected monopoly would put an old-school Alexander-Graham-Bell...
View ArticleCutting the cord III: How not to spend $4.99
Tonight, randomlymarried and I entertained ourselves for free. Somehow, aTV transformed our own music and photos into an hour of real entertainment. Without asking us for a dime. Could it do more? Of...
View ArticleFaux-tographers poser-ing for the camera companies
Or, how not to spend $3,000. Casual SLR owners today have dirt-cheap digital sensors capable of recording an image as useful for most purposes as their medium-format film predecessors a generation ago....
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