Category: Apple
October 23, 2006
Free as a Songbird
Proponents of open software have been bothered by iTunes for some time. It’s a very slick program, but it’s also very locked in to Apple’s Fair Play DRM and the iPod hardware. So far, the alternatives have been pretty few and far between. The aptly named open source developers, Pioneers of the Inevitable, may be about to change that. I’ve… 
April 30, 2005
Tiger Installed (Mac OS X 10.4)
Got OS X 10.4 installed on my PowerBook this morning. It took 35 minutes for the intall to run. (It took four hours if you include backing up my essential files, ensuring everything made it through the transition, and troubleshooting Mail.) I ran into a problem in Mail.app with the httpmail plugin installed. (I forgot it was there.) It looked…
March 7, 2005
Folksonomy vs. the Desktop Metaphor
With all the discussion of folksonomies, and especially tags, I’ve heard little said about the significant change in mindset that this form of categorization represents. It is only very recently in the history of personal computers that the conceptual shift has begun to swing away from strict hierarchical folder structures where a digital file shared the proprety of a physical…
January 25, 2005
Mac Mini Media Center
When the Mac Mini was first announced I started trying to figure out how to justify purchasing one as a DVD player/DVR device. Now there’s an article on Engadget that should help me out….
November 12, 2004
IIe Time Machine
I’ve been playing with the OSXII Apple 2 emulator. It’s up and running, and I rocked through a round of Where in the USA is Carmen Sandiego last night (comprehensive FAQ on the game). As soon as it booted up I was transported back twenty years (seriously, twenty?). I apparently spent vastly more time than I remember chasing Carmen, messing…