Apple

226 posts

Apple Computer, the Macintosh operating system, the iPhone, the iPad, iOS, hardware, software, tinkering, culture and advocacy.

Tue 10 Jan
2012

The Miracle of WD-40

9:02 AM
Remarks (13)

An analog fix or unresponsive iPhone home buttons.

Thu 10 Nov
2011

Introducing Mixel

12:07 AM
Remarks (37)

Tue 11 Oct
2011

Bloomberg Businessweek’s Steve Jobs Issue

11:28 AM
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An incredible tribute to Steve Jobs in print.

Fri 26 Aug
2011

The Post-Personal iPad

10:32 AM
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Some thoughts on the unique shareability of Apple’s post-PC device.

Wed 24 Aug
2011

Steve Jobs Resigns

8:45 PM
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A quick note of gratitude.

Wed 10 Aug
2011

What Comes After Reading on iPad

10:34 AM

The iPad is capable of so much more than what we’re using it for today, and I’m hiring a team to tap into some of that enormous potential.

Tue 02 Aug
2011

iCal’s Missing Months

12:59 PM
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I lived through brushed metal and I’ll survive faux leather, but iCal’s UI regression is harder to take.

Mon 25 Jul
2011

The Wayback Machine for Apps

12:51 PM
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An idea for a crowdsourced archive of the way mobile and tablet apps evolve.

Thu 16 Jun
2011

Gagosian on iPad

10:24 AM
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If you thought contemporary art was hard to understand, try using Gagosian Gallery’s new iPad app.

Mon 06 Jun
2011

The First Step Is Admitting You Have a Cloud Computing Problem

9:16 PM
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Apple’s admits MobileMe was less than stellar.

Wed 11 May
2011

Adobe on iPad

4:57 PM
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Credit where credit is due: Adobe is producing very good apps for this platform.

Mon 02 May
2011

Two Weeks with iPad 2

1:46 PM
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Some random thoughts after upgrading to the new model of Apple’s post-PC device.

Fri 25 Mar
2011

Multiple User Account Disorder

12:32 PM
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With an ecosystem as big as Apple’s, it should be easier to merge two accounts into one.

Tue 22 Mar
2011

The Other Kind of iPad Magazines

11:20 PM
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How social magazines like Flipboard and TweetMag can take the next big step.

Thu 17 Mar
2011

Life in a Solid State

4:10 PM
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Just upgraded a painfully slow MacBook Air to a speedy solid state drive.

Tue 01 Feb
2011

Unnecessary Explanations

11:32 AM
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The regrettable trend of instructional screens, where broken interfaces are explained away.

Tue 25 Jan
2011

This Could Be Google’s Design Moment

7:04 PM
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Larry Page has an opportunity to do something very different with Google. If he wants.

Tue 11 Jan
2011

Verizon Monologue

6:04 PM
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My past experience with Verizon gives me no reason to switch away from AT&T.

iPad Magazines Go to ’11

11:31 AM
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An update on how this quixotic format is doing and further thoughts on why these efforts are hurting more than they’re helping.

Wed 22 Dec
2010

Real Estate

6:48 PM
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Via screen sharing, nested views of my two older Macs from my new Mac.

Tue 21 Dec
2010

Moving to a New Mac

9:44 PM
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Deciding whether to manually or automatically move all of my stuff from an old Mac to a new one.

Thu 28 Oct
2010

More on iPad Magazines

2:14 PM
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Some follow-up thoughts to my post yesterday about the strategy publishers are following on the iPad.

Wed 27 Oct
2010

My iPad Magazine Stand

5:55 PM
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What I think of periodicals on the iPad. Hint: not my favorite thing ever.

Tue 12 Oct
2010

iPhones for the Under-Two Set

9:21 PM
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iPhone is almost a perfect toy for my young daughter. Except for that home button.

Wed 01 Sep
2010

Apple Blinks in the Living Room

8:52 PM
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The new Apple TV is sleeker, more capable, savvier and more affordable — but it also demonstrates a lack of will.

Wed 18 Aug
2010

iPad Gripe Session

11:54 PM
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I keep finding more and more uses for my iPad, as well as many irritating software shortcomings.

Thu 29 Jul
2010

The Hurry Up and Wait Startup

3:11 PM
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Flipboard is writing a case study in how not to launch a product.

Mon 26 Jul
2010

Settling Scores with MLB At Bat

5:09 PM
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Vainly trying to avoid final score spoilers with the MLB At Bat app for iPad.

Tue 13 Jul
2010

FaceTime Means Crying Time

11:47 AM
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Apple’s four new commercials for its video calling feature have left me a sobbing mess.

Wed 09 Jun
2010

What I Said About Apple and Typography

7:01 PM
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Clarifying what I said when I called out Apple on its typographic chops.

Tue 08 Jun
2010

Better Screen, Same Typography

1:54 PM
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iPhone 4’s Retina Screen promises a leap forward, but it does nothing for Apple’s typographic credentials.

Wed 27 Jan
2010

Notes on iPad

10:26 PM
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Some brief thoughts on the Apple iPad and whether it changes anything for publishers.

Wed 12 Aug
2009

MobileUs

2:39 PM
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Long-suffering MobileMe users: we owe it to one another to fill in the gaps that Apple leaves.

Sat 01 Aug
2009

NetNewsWire’s Stinkin’ Synching

12:57 PM
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The latest beta of the RSS aggregator offers an object lesson in how bad beta software can be,

Fri 10 Apr
2009

Up for Air

8:53 PM
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Adobe gets clever about insurrection.

Sat 10 Jan
2009

iTuning Out DRM

1:34 AM
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Paying a fee to rid purchased songs of digital rights management.

Mon 20 Oct
2008

Whatcha-Mac-allit

10:26 PM
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Apple has some explaining to do when it comes to the Apple TV. Plus: take my ex-girlfriend. Please!

Fri 01 Aug
2008

Crash Test Dummies

12:58 AM
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Freezing and crashing on devices ”that need to work.“

Tue 22 Jul
2008

Woe Is MobileMe

12:45 PM
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Troubleshooting .Mac’s little improved successor.

Tue 15 Jul
2008

No Contact Is an Island

8:01 AM
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For me, something’s missing from the iPhone 2.0 Software Update.

Thu 03 Jul
2008

A Word for .Mac

1:29 PM
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May these irritating .Mac errors rest in peace.

Mon 09 Jun
2008

Investing Strategies for iPhone Customers

12:54 PM
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Spending US$599 on an iPhone a year ago turns out to be not a great way to invest my money.

Wed 21 May
2008

Notes on Note-keeping Software

11:39 PM
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Episode three of my search for an all-purpose memory aid.

Wed 14 May
2008

Four for iPhone

11:57 AM
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Ideas for iPhone applications that I’ll never turn into reality.

Mon 25 Feb
2008

Blue in the Interface

11:44 PM
Remarks (47)

The surprisingly uniform color of iconography.

Tue 22 Jan
2008

Conscientiously Objecting to the Living Room War

7:51 PM
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I’ll never be an Apple TV customer. For now.

Indulging a Suite Tooth

12:31 AM
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Not picking on Adobe at all for Creative Suite 3.

Wed 16 Jan
2008

Living in the Future

12:00 AM
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The MacBook Air officially marks the era of SKU fiction.

Wed 24 Oct
2007

Expanding on Syncing

9:59 PM
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Text Expander 2.0 is a great use of .Mac, but that doesn’t mean I can’t complain anyway.

Thu 18 Oct
2007

Look What the Leopard Dragged In

1:25 AM
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Science fiction fans, not type aficionados, come first in Mac OS X 10.5.

Thu 20 Sep
2007

Preserving Preferences

11:44 PM
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The way you use your software should stick with you.

Tue 18 Sep
2007

How I Spent My iRebate

12:46 AM
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Just like the title says, plus a note on OmniWeb.

Wed 05 Sep
2007

The Little Keyboard That Could—n’t

9:09 PM
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How good can you get on the iPhone keyboard?

Mon 27 Aug
2007

A Subway System in Your Pocket

1:30 AM
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The NYC subway map chopped up into little tiles for your iPhone.

Fri 10 Aug
2007

Unsung Software

12:36 AM
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Three examples of unglamorous, indispensible software.

Thu 09 Aug
2007

An Important Message for .Mac Customers

12:14 AM
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Messaging .Mac customers about recent changes to the service.

Tue 07 Aug
2007

Old Rumors, New Rumors

12:43 AM
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Let’s hope .Mac gets better tomorrow. Plus: how to own more than one iPhone.

Thu 19 Jul
2007

Glaring Omissions

12:14 AM
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Two things outrageously missing on my iPhone.

Mon 25 Jun
2007

The Limits of My Stupidity

9:11 PM
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Ways in which I’m definitely not planning on acquiring my own iPhone.

Tue 19 Jun
2007

Daring Fireball in a Crowded Theater

10:14 PM
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John Gruber appearing for AIGA in SoHo tomorrow night!

Fri 08 Jun
2007

Thinking About Syncing About My iPhone

8:34 PM
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How fixing .Mac will make the iPhone better.

Thu 12 Apr
2007

Apple’s Unnecessary Objects

11:02 PM
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Accusing the company of being a company.

Mon 12 Feb
2007

Stripes Are Out

11:17 PM
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Getting rid of the Venetian blind effect.

Thu 25 Jan
2007

Hidden Fun in Software Design

12:32 AM
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It took me years to find this feature in an application I use every day.

Wed 10 Jan
2007

Bad for Palm, Good for Typography

10:05 PM
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The Palm O.S. blew it, and why the new iPhone is a typographic milestone.

Tue 09 Jan
2007

Down with iTunes

12:56 PM
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Why the Apple Phone and iTunes shouldn’t get too cozy.

Tue 02 Jan
2007

Everything You Ever Wanted in an Apple Phone

11:18 PM
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My obligatory blog post about Apple’s upcoming mobile phone, focusing on what it probably won’t do.

Fri 08 Dec
2006

Lookin’ for the Next Quicken

12:31 AM
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Casting about for a replacement personal banking application.

Mon 16 Oct
2006

A Postal Fix

9:18 PM
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Switching away from Rosetta apps means ditching Entourage.

Thu 12 Oct
2006

Simpler and Simplerer

8:58 PM
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Getting things done with Kinkless Getting Things Done.

Wed 11 Oct
2006

Housebreaking an iMac

11:08 PM
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Coping with my new Intel-based iMac.

Mon 02 Oct
2006

Listen Up, Adobe

10:36 PM
Remarks (39)

A surefire way for Adobe to hit a home run.

Sun 17 Sep
2006

Big and Fast and Slow

11:40 PM
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Living with the new 24-in. iMac.

Thu 07 Sep
2006

A Browser Back from the Brink

11:36 PM
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At long last, OmniWeb 5.5 is out of beta, and it’s just like it was.

Wed 06 Sep
2006

Supersize Me

10:30 PM
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At long last, it’s time to buy a new Mac.

Tue 29 Aug
2006

Message to the Messengers

12:29 AM
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Coming changes and changes that should be coming to instant messaging.

Fri 25 Aug
2006

Please Return Your Battery (If You Can)

9:17 PM
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I’m trying to send back my potentially explosive PowerBook battery, but Apple won’t let me.

Wed 23 Aug
2006

Stick a Database in It, It’s Done

12:11 AM
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Hoping someone will create a Cocoa version of kGTD with a true database.

Tue 15 Aug
2006

Ubuntu for Dummies

11:09 PM
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I’m switching to Linux… for just a bit.

Wed 09 Aug
2006

What Went Down at WWDC

4:29 PM
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Disaappointment and signs of synchronicity at Apple’s 2006 World Wide Developers Conference.

Mon 19 Jun
2006

Blockwriter Big in Britain

11:51 AM
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Just published in today’s Guardian: my article on software that works like a typewriter.

Thu 15 Jun
2006

Mirror, Mirror

12:21 AM
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The moment for reflectivity is here, or maybe it was fifteen minutes ago.

Thu 01 Jun
2006

Overcoming Roadblocks to Blockwriter

3:24 PM
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A software brainstorm of mine makes some strides towards reality.

Fri 19 May
2006

A Glass House on Fifth Avenue

10:08 PM
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A quick visit to Apple’s new retail store on Fifth Avenue.

Thu 18 May
2006

Why Didn’t They Call It the MacBook Amateur?

11:58 PM
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What we didn’t get when Apple released its new consumer notebooks.

Thu 11 May
2006

Dear Apple, Please Cell Out

1:55 AM
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The time for a truly user-friendly mobile phone from Cupertino is now.

Tue 09 May
2006

Blockwriter

10:18 PM
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How to turn your computer into a manual typewriter.

Thu 06 Apr
2006

Das Boot Camp

12:14 AM
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Boot Camp is the most adventurous OS idea Apple has had in twenty-one years, which is too bad.

Tue 14 Feb
2006

Camino Es Real

7:07 PM
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The intrepid cousin to Firefox makes releases its version 1.0 today.

Mon 13 Feb
2006

Old Kid on the Block

6:59 PM
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As a reminder of my age, my PowerBook is back from the dead.

Thu 02 Feb
2006

Living with Chronic Hard Drive Failure

10:56 AM
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After a scare a few weeks ago, the internal drive on my PowerBook finally checked out.

Thu 19 Jan
2006

Sudden Slow-Down

4:49 PM
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One day my Mac feels fine, and then it starts feeling very, very slow.

Tue 10 Jan
2006

Out with the Old, Intel with the New

4:41 PM
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Things are looking up: I didn’t buy a new Mac and my hard drive crashed.

Sat 03 Dec
2005

Surfing in Viet Nam

3:30 AM
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It’s Microsoft country over here.

Mon 21 Nov
2005

Feature Parity Tricks

3:47 AM
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Nifty image manipulation in Mac OS X Tiger and the bad old days.

Sun 13 Nov
2005

G5 Numbers

12:03 PM
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There’s something missing from Apple’s Macintosh hardware offerings.

Wed 12 Oct
2005

Television without the Television

9:25 PM
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Tantalizingly close but still miles away from the perfect media center.

Tue 27 Sep
2005

What .Mac Lacks

12:19 AM
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Even recent improvements to Apple’s Web services leave much to be desired.

Tue 06 Sep
2005

Slipped iDisk

10:50 PM
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.Mac is slowing me down.

Thu 25 Aug
2005

Metcalfe in Full Effect

10:52 PM
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Encountering the spirit of Bob Metcalfe on a train.

Tue 16 Aug
2005

Upside-Down Inverted Triangles and Other Interface Details

10:55 PM
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How a little triangle caused me five minutes of befuddlement.

Wed 03 Aug
2005

M.I.A.: Bluetooth Trackballs

9:51 PM
Remarks (22)

Looking for a trackball for the 21st Century.

Wed 06 Jul
2005

The Road Ahead

11:34 PM
Remarks (10)

Camino, king of the uphill battle.

Wed 08 Jun
2005

Apple’s Switch Campaign

10:27 PM
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Some thoughts on Apple’s move from PowerPC to Intel.

Thu 02 Jun
2005

Window Dress for Success

7:27 PM
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There are more window chrome styles than ever in Tiger, and what each might mean.

Fri 27 May
2005

Temporary Insanity

1:17 PM
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I’m busy, busy, busy, and so is Adobe Illustrator — creating weird temp files, that is.

Tue 10 May
2005

World Wide Webster

9:36 PM
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Mac OS X’s unheralded dictionary feature is great.

Out of Sync

12:05 AM
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Mac OS X’s synchronization technology makes less sense than ever.

Wed 04 May
2005

F’d up Font Palette

9:21 PM
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Tiger takes a tiny little step backward in font management.

Mon 02 May
2005

Tiger Blemishes

10:30 PM
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Minor glitches in the way Safari displays CSS and the way Tiger renders text.

Sun 01 May
2005

Back to Square One

11:52 AM
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Mac OS X Tiger is finally here, but I’ve been taking my own sweet time installing it.

Thu 28 Apr
2005

Catch a Tiger by the Tail

8:32 PM
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One day until Tiger arrives…

Wed 27 Apr
2005

Ooh, Ooh It’s Magic

10:52 PM
Remarks (8)

Ask for some kind of software that you don’t think exists, and ye shall receive.

Tue 26 Apr
2005

We Need a (Project) Plan

8:59 PM
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I can’t figure out how people are managing projects on the Macintosh.

Thu 21 Apr
2005

Podcasting Not All Hype After All

9:15 PM
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Until last week, you could count me among the podcasting skeptics.

Tue 05 Apr
2005

Replacing iPod Earbuds

12:31 PM
Remarks (27)

Subway thefts of iPods are up in New York City, sending me into the market for new earbuds.

Tue 22 Mar
2005

Enhance Your Performance!

8:20 PM
Remarks (5)

Why it’s not completely crazy to expect the Mac OS to remain stable under duress from third-party system enhancements.

Mon 21 Mar
2005

Just Like Starting Over

10:49 PM
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Mac OS X and its susceptibility to the effects of accretion.

Fri 11 Mar
2005

Fine-Tuning iTunes

12:42 AM
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Something about music collections makes some people very, very fussy.

Tue 08 Mar
2005

Bad Company

9:11 PM
Remarks (6)

How much I really, really dislike Apple’s recent lawsuits.

Mon 07 Mar
2005

Too Much Is Not Enough

10:30 PM
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With all of these Macs, what use could I possibly have for another?

Thu 17 Feb
2005

ABCs for iPods

10:00 PM
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All the iPod user interface needs is a little dash of the alphabet.

Tue 15 Feb
2005

Walk This Way

7:58 PM
Remarks (37)

Last week I decided to count how many iPods I see on my walk to work.

Wed 09 Feb
2005

Apple Is My Man

10:04 PM
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Disposable income and an incurable addiction to stuff from Cupertino.

Mon 07 Feb
2005

Keynote Schizophrenia

11:16 AM
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There’s a tension between power features and elegant simplicity all over Keynote 2.

Mon 17 Jan
2005

Do the Shuffle

3:37 PM
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On the cusp of buying myself an iPod shuffle, it occurs to me that I really don’t like to shuffle.

Tue 11 Jan
2005

Second Helpings at Macworld

10:34 PM
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I’ll take one of everything announced at Macworld Expo this morning.

Thu 06 Jan
2005

Lose Your Head

8:57 PM
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Rumors in advance of next week’s Macworld Expo have me a little worked up.

Tue 04 Jan
2005

Keys to the Keyboard Kingdom

11:21 PM
Remarks (16)

The Matias Tactile Pro Keyboard inspires more discussion of keyboard technologies than is probably healthy.

Mon 15 Nov
2004

Deliciously Indulgent

11:06 PM
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What’s good about Delicious Library if the software’s no good?

Mon 08 Nov
2004

The Hub of the Matter

10:46 PM
Remarks (3)

Looking for a USB hub that works the way USB hubs are supposed to.

Fri 29 Oct
2004

Name That iTune

11:17 PM
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What’s the name of that song that goes, “Doo de dum de doo… you know the one I’m talkin’ about?

Picture Imperfect

12:16 AM
Remarks (4)

The new iPod Photo is just a big tease.

Mon 25 Oct
2004

Lost: 5,000 Songs

4:09 PM
Remarks (7)

At the end of a long week, I did something really, really stupid.

Mon 27 Sep
2004

The New New NetNewsWire

11:28 PM
Remarks (7)

Report on my trial period with NetNewsWire 2.0 beta.

Tue 21 Sep
2004

Set My Firefox

8:51 PM
Remarks (10)

My Firefox usage is growing every day, thanks to two small tweaks I’ve made to it.

Thu 16 Sep
2004

Smaller, Lighter, Better

9:58 PM
Remarks (4)

Wouldn’t be great to have a true Apple sub-notebook? Keep dreaming.

Fri 10 Sep
2004

I Keep Going, and Going, and Going…

3:58 PM
Remarks (7)

On my out of the city and hopefully to stop thinking about this election for a bit.

Thu 02 Sep
2004

OmniWeb Tweaks I’d Like to See

9:27 PM
Remarks (19)

Some ideas on how to fix up OmniWeb’s interface… for me.

Tue 31 Aug
2004

Where’d the Ambition Go?

7:05 PM
Remarks (13)

Apple’s new iMac doesn’t follow through on its tradition of innovation.

Fri 20 Aug
2004

Talking Points on Keynote

9:50 PM
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Good things and bad things about using Apple’s Keynote over Microsoft PowerPoint.

Wed 18 Aug
2004

Get on the OmniWeb Bus

10:32 PM
Remarks (9)

After a week with the finalized OmniWeb 5, its very impressive feature set is still imperfect.

Wed 11 Aug
2004

Ecto Plurbius Unum

1:58 AM
Remarks (2)

Though I just started using ecto, I already have a complaint.

Mon 26 Jul
2004

The Real World

11:44 AM
Remarks (6)

Real plays the barbarian at Apple’s gates, and for once, I’m rooting for Real.

Thu 15 Jul
2004

Long in the ’Tooth

7:05 PM
Remarks (3)

More thoughts on my new Sony Ericsson T608.

Wed 14 Jul
2004

Moving into a New Office

12:43 AM
Remarks (5)

First day with a new version of Microsoft Office for Macintosh.

Mon 12 Jul
2004

Sync Like a Pirate

10:19 PM
Remarks (6)

Is Bluetooth all it’s cracked up to be?

Mon 28 Jun
2004

Which Path to Take

12:29 PM
Remarks (3)

Twenty days into a free 21-day trial license for the latest version of PathFinder.

Mon 07 Jun
2004

Fantastic Voyage (of Sorts)

11:10 PM
Remarks (1)

How I rode a chunk of text from email to Keynote.

Sun 23 May
2004

One Word to Rule Them All

7:09 PM

Mellel is a great word processor, but it almost doesn’t matter.

Plugging Holes

6:30 PM

The reality of security comes to Mac OS X.

Mon 17 May
2004

Facts on ’Fiction

9:02 PM
Remarks (1)

PulpFiction is finally here, and this is what I think of it.

Thu 13 May
2004

Access All Areas

12:29 PM
Remarks (3)

Mac users: don’t throw away your mouse just yet.

Wed 14 Apr
2004

Now and Then and Now

9:44 PM
Remarks (7)

How I went from Now to Action to Quicksilver.

Wed 17 Mar
2004

All the News That’s Fit to Feed

11:35 PM
Remarks (5)

The search for the perfect XML news reader.

Tue 16 Mar
2004

Out of the Bay

9:05 PM
Remarks (4)

A brand new HogBaySoftware.com launched today.

Mon 08 Mar
2004

In Store Service

9:53 PM
Remarks (1)

How the Apple Store solved all of my problems.

Wed 11 Feb
2004

Sliders and Buttons, Oh My

2:39 PM
Remarks (4)

Evidence that I attended the Design Guard, where I learned how to make slick UI widgets.

Mon 02 Feb
2004

The Safari Ecosystem

10:44 PM

Signs of a healthy software ecosystem.

Thu 15 Jan
2004

The Bitter Suite

10:41 PM
Remarks (2)

Aside from the branding, not enough has changed in the Adobe Creative Suite.

Data in Denial

12:52 AM
Remarks (1)

No one believes that Entourage and the Mac OS X Address Book can be bridged. Except me.

Thu 08 Jan
2004

All Play and No Work

12:49 AM
Remarks (2)

Quick thoughts on what was announced at 2004’s Macworld Expo SF and what wasn’t.

Mon 22 Dec
2003

Burn Baby Burn

3:24 PM
Remarks (3)

SuperDrive in hand, Mr. Subtraction teaches you how to make legal back-ups of your DVDs.

Sat 06 Dec
2003

Twelve Inches of Fun

9:12 PM
Remarks (1)

Seven inches of snow and a foot of PowerBook.

Tue 25 Nov
2003

The Road Runner Ahead

3:59 PM

The future looks anti-aliased, smoothed out and drop-shadowed.

Wed 29 Oct
2003

Retouching iPhoto

1:30 PM
Remarks (13)

Picasa is a rip-off of iPhoto that adds its own innovations.

Mon 27 Oct
2003

Housebreaking Tips for a Panther

11:15 PM
Remarks (3)

How I upgraded to Mac OS X Panther.

Fri 24 Oct
2003

Crouching Panther, Hidden Crashes

7:15 PM

So, so ready to throw caution to the wind and install Panther.

Thu 23 Oct
2003

All Together Now!

11:03 PM

iTunes for Windows brings the whole family together.

Thu 09 Oct
2003

Big Black Cat

12:31 AM
Remarks (1)

Apple’s Panther update is just two weeks away.

Fri 03 Oct
2003

Lacking in Confidence

6:58 PM
Remarks (2)

The startling true secrets behind Web Confidential.

Thu 25 Sep
2003

Fun with File Management

9:34 PM
Remarks (3)

How to replace the Mac OS X Finder… almost.

Wed 03 Sep
2003

Different Thinking

4:29 PM

A round-up of some recent, uncharacteristically high quality articles about the Mac.

Mon 01 Sep
2003

Look Ma, No Wires

11:41 PM
Remarks (11)

Going wireless is hard to do.

Wed 27 Aug
2003

The Hog Ate My Homework

7:26 PM
Remarks (6)

Hog Bay Notebook is a smart and simple ‘snippet keeper.’

Tue 19 Aug
2003

Adding Value by Removing Wires

6:21 PM
Remarks (3)

Is the Apple premium really worth it?

Tue 22 Jul
2003

Remote Control

2:53 PM
Remarks (2)

Sick, laid up in bed, and using remote access software.

Sat 19 Jul
2003

New Speed for an Old Mac

4:42 PM

Upgrading an old Macintosh.yields surprisingly good results.

Wed 16 Jul
2003

It’s a Mac, Mac, Mac World

7:49 PM

Last hurrah for Macworld New York.

Tue 15 Jul
2003

EMusic versus iTunes

11:49 PM
Remarks (1)

In the battle for online music content, EMusic beats out the iTunes Music Store.

Tue 01 Jul
2003

R.I.P. C&G

8:24 PM
Remarks (5)

Longtime, well-liked software publisher Casady & Greene have closed shop.

Fri 27 Jun
2003

Week in Review

12:17 PM
Remarks (1)

On my way to Montréal, a few random items.

Tue 24 Jun
2003

A Flock of G5s

12:37 AM

Sun 22 Jun
2003

Rebuild the Desktop

9:04 PM

With a new 80GB hard drive replacement, everything on my PowerBook has to be reinstalled from scratch.

Wed 18 Jun
2003

That Ol’ Time UI

8:08 PM
Remarks (1)

A ‘Mac-like’ ad makes me feel old.

Fri 13 Jun
2003

The Exploration Is Over

9:21 PM
Remarks (2)

Microsoft confirmed rumors of the cancellation of IE for the Mac today.

Fri 06 Jun
2003

The ‘i’ Is for Indie

7:55 PM
Remarks (1)

Apple is getting serious about bringing indie music to the iTunes Music Store.

Thu 05 Jun
2003

’N’ Sync ’n’ Sync ’n’ Sync

10:50 PM

The latest iSync doesn’t sync enough.

Tue 13 May
2003

Old at the Age of Two and a Half

7:12 PM

What to do with an aging PowerBook?

Mon 12 May
2003

Stuck on Stickies

1:02 PM
Remarks (1)

The search for a replacement for Stickies.

Thu 01 May
2003

Instant Gratification

11:51 PM
Remarks (4)

The iTunes Music Store is dangerously easy to use, though it could do with some polishing.

Tue 29 Apr
2003

Turn On, iTunes In, Shop Out

12:57 PM

The debut of Apple’s online music service is singularly elegant and overeagerly hyped.

Sat 26 Apr
2003

Sushi Made Simple

8:10 PM

MP3 Sushi is one example of the powerful, exceptionally easy-to-use software being written for Mac OS X.

Fri 18 Apr
2003

The Case of the Missing Case

7:13 PM

After breaking my iPod and having it replaced with a brand new unit by Apple, I’ve decided to take care of it properly and buy a real, protective case.

Tue 15 Apr
2003

Tab Dance

3:56 PM

The newest public release of Safari features the most elegant implementation yet of tabbed browsing.

Wed 09 Apr
2003

About This Macintosh

1:57 PM

Mac OS X has inspired some of the best technical writing the platform has seen in years.

Fri 04 Apr
2003

Activate the Launch Sequence

10:02 PM
Remarks (3)

LaunchBar is a utility so powerful, it’s eerily evocative of the absurd computers we tend to see only in the movies.

Wed 26 Mar
2003

Guiding Lights

6:48 PM

Apple and Microsoft’s approaches to style guidelines are both indicative of their design advocacy.

Thu 20 Mar
2003

Apple Gore

2:40 PM

Al Gore has joined the Apple Computer board of directors.

Tue 18 Mar
2003

Feeding on RSS

5:18 PM

RSS is fun, and NetNewsWire is a great RSS client.

Fri 21 Feb
2003

Aqua Finer

6:42 PM
Remarks (1)

A minor interface tweak in Mac OS X represents a lost opportunity.

Tue 11 Feb
2003

Absolutely Konfabulous

2:17 PM

Konfabulator, a new, Swiss army knife-style software utility, is a great reason to own a Macintosh.

All the Work That Went into ’Works

11:41 AM

Bob Hearn, co-creator of ClarisWorks, tells the story of that product and the almost-legendary Claris Corporation.

Thu 26 Sep
2002

Talking Points

12:39 AM

Stirrings and murmurs on TidBITS Talk.

Wed 28 Aug
2002

Meow

7:34 PM

My copy of Mac OS X 10.2 just arrived last night.

Thu 15 Aug
2002

Mo’ Memory

6:37 PM

Just added some more RAM to my PowerBook. Aaaahhh.

Wed 14 Aug
2002

Playing with Fire, and Other Toys

1:07 AM

Jaguar is great, and so is the software that runs on it.

Fri 09 Aug
2002

New Hack Swing

12:23 AM

What good comes of MacHack?

Thu 25 Jul
2002

Not Just Pixels Anymore

4:13 PM

The brave new world of icons.

Tue 25 Jun
2002

Enduring Cuteness

5:15 PM

Reconsidering the iMac and Mac OS 9.x.

Fri 31 May
2002

Painted from Random Access Memory

6:17 PM

Bert Monroy makes art with computers that doesn’t look like art made with computers.

Thu 30 May
2002

Six Pack

5:58 PM

Aping that System 6 aesthetic.

Fri 10 May
2002

These Bite

10:55 PM

Winners of Apple’s Design Awards.

Fri 29 Mar
2002

Radio Days

5:23 PM

Your Mac Life is a guilty pleasure.

Thu 17 Jan
2002

Crossing over to X

11:33 AM

Playing around with Mac OS X.

Tue 15 Jan
2002

Mac-like

6:28 PM

The new iMac looks great.

Fri 14 Sep
2001

Titanium

11:41 PM

My new PowerBook arrived today.

Thu 12 Jul
2001

Secret Origins

9:54 PM

Photoshop through the ages.

Sat 09 Jun
2001

Aquatic Calculator

10:36 PM

A beautiful software calculator.

Mon 14 May
2001

Throbbers

11:45 AM

How to change that little icon in your Web browser.

Mon 23 Apr
2001

ProgramSwitcher

12:40 PM

ProgramSwitcher adds a Windows-style processing palette to the Mac OS.

Wed 11 Apr
2001

Frustrating as Heck

6:47 PM

The Palm OS is testing my patience.

Mon 26 Mar
2001

The Mac OS X Wait Is Over

2:47 PM

At long last, Apple’s next generation operating system has arrived.

Fri 09 Feb
2001

Closing in on Mac OS X

11:32 AM

The long-awaited release of Mac OS X is just two months away.

Sun 21 Jan
2001

Ars Technica on Apple

5:09 AM

Ars Technica takes an in-depth look at Macworld San Francisco 2001.

Fri 12 Jan
2001

New Crop

1:27 AM

The new Titanium PowerBook aside, what the heck is Apple’s long-term gameplan?