A whole list of things you can customize in OSX through the command line. Will most definitely come in handy.

iPhoto for iOS Not Using Google Maps

It’s sort of funny that the only major thing those in the rumor business got wrong was the name of the new iPad. It’s not the previously presumed “iPad 3″, nor is it the…

Why I'm Buying The New iPad

This article is partially responsible for my recent purchase.

A week ago, John Battelle wrote a curious response to this Wall Street Journal report about Google circumventing Safari’s (and, notably, Mobile Safari’s) default setting only to accept…

I need something to quickly backup and restore my HDD.

New tumblr post: Noooooooo!

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I just happened to be at the Apple Store in the Galleria over the weekend, and commented on this very subject.

People flooded Foxconn Technology with résumés at a 2010 job fair in Henan Province, China. When Barack Obama joined Silicon Valley’s top luminaries for dinner in California…

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With the announcement of its new Search app, Google gave iPad users more than just a slick and well-made native search app that bests the experience on any Android tablet. It also managed to squeeze…

Need to do this today

An insider look at what Google is doing wrong as a platform. Super interesting.

What does the “S” stand for? When I ask Apple this, they’re vague in their response. They note that some people say it stands for “Special” or “Super”. Others say it’s for “Speed” — much like the iPhone…

What More Could You Have Wanted in a hypothetical ‘iPhone 5’ Today?

A 4-inch screen? What sign has Apple ever given that it will ever change from the one-size-fits-all 3.5-inch screen? Every single iPhone and iPod Touch ever released has had the exact same size screen.

Now, maybe you would prefer a 4-inch screen. Or maybe a 4.5-inch screen. And maybe someone else would prefer a slightly smaller 3.25-inch…

Apple’s design is deliberate and iterative. This is counter to the feeling that many have about the designs of the iPhone, iPad and Mac because they feel so organic and inspired.
The designs of these products stand out as different and unique, making it seem likely that they were the creation fo f a flash of genius or spurt of design inspiration. While that may be true of some of the concepts used or details involved, the majority of what…

RT @baratunde: Commencement Speech at Stanford given by Steve Jobs - YouTube

When Apple introduced iTunes Match for the iCloud platform it seemed to be the answer to a question that many of us have been asking for a very long time. We have loads of music, we have it stored in different locations with fragmented libraries. What we really want is a way to listen to our music on any device and this is what iTunes Match has…

I don’t think there’s any hyperbole in Microsoft’s claim that this is “Windows Reimagined”. But it’s not so much that Windows 8 is Windows reimagined, but Metro that is Windows reimagined. It’s truly a whole new concept in how a computer interface should look and work.

Metro is to Microsoft what iOS is to Apple — starting over from scratch, carrying no legacy baggage or expectations. Windows…

I was going through my Twitter feed during

“Hello, Windows 8? This is iPad. You win.”
That’s Paul Thurrott , tweeting from Microsoft’s Build conference. I’ll file it away for future claim chowder, sure, but right now let’s think about this in the unsnarkiest terms we can manage. This tweet, to me, says a lot.

There has always been a debate about widescreen laptops versus 4:3 (standard/normal/TV-non-HD) aspect ratio laptops — ever since widescreen became a “thing” in laptop users minds. The debate always came down to one or two points, but usually people would settle on the notion as follows: A vertically oriented screen that best reflects your standard A4 sized page is the best for reading and writing. Whereas a horizontally oriented screen…

Back on November 28, 2010, a user named stereocourier started a thread on Apple’s support forums . The poster claimed that—without his knowledge or consent—someone spent more than $50 of his iTunes…

As the summer winds down and we near the fall, we know two things are for sure about to enter existence in the world of Apple: iOS 5 and iCloud. Given that both offer third-party developers various opportunities, both are in the process of…

I sat down last night to write about Steve Jobs’ resignation as Apple CEO and something funny happened: I had…

Reading around the web an hour ago, trying to confirm the news that Steve Jobs had resigned as CEO, I repeatedly encountered and bridled each time at use of the adjective “shocking” to describe the announcement. But my initial resentment was unwarranted. This is not out of nowhere, it’s not even unexpected. We could all see this was coming — but it is a shock. I saw the headline and my nervous system took a jolt. The…

As I write this, I’m sitting in a cafe. Around me, there are five people on laptops — four of them are MacBooks. Four other people are using tablets — all four are iPads. Welcome to the Post-PC…

Tweet back - I've noticed that the apps are completely replaced, not a delta update. Doing this through the mac store for every osx update would be a very large amount of bandwidth.

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes wrote a link bait article one that I was going to let pass, but then I got to thinking about it and — well — I got a little more pissed. First things first: Lion has bugs. I know this and admit this — I have been using it since the first Developer Preview came out and I know first hand how annoying some of…

A personal history of electronic writing
For the first time, I no longer have a copy of Microsoft Word installed on either of my computers. That’s some change. I wrote my first two books, and many hundreds of articles , in Word. But I’m writing my third book in an inexpensive yet wonderful piece of Mac-only software written by a single person instead of a…

Amazon’s (NASDAQ: AMZN) stock has outperformed Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) over the past year, past two years, and past five years. But, Apple is the leader, supposedly, in the…