Tag Archives: apple

iPad announcement summary

By kirsch | February 1, 2010

Apparently Apple has announced a new product called iPad. It’s like a big iPod touch. Having owned all three iPhone models  I must admit I would probably enjoy owning an iPad, limitations and all.
As it is, I already use my iPhone more than I use my laptop anyway:  when I wake up, I check my [...]

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Operation Chokehold

By kirsch | December 16, 2009

Fake Steve Jobs is angry at AT&T’s poor network performance and all their excuses. Dropped calls, falling back to EDGE, slow data rates, poor voice quality, etc. So he called for Operation Chokehold through his blog:
Subject: Operation Chokehold
On Friday, December 18, at noon Pacific time, we will attempt to overwhelm the AT&T data network and [...]

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John Siracusa reviews Mac OS X 10.6

By kirsch | September 1, 2009

Every time there is a new major Mac OS X release, John Siracusa of the excellent technology website Ars Technica releases a long and detailed review. And the one for Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard one has arrived. I post about it here because I think a del.icio.us link on the sidebar is not enough.
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Snow Leopard

By kirsch | August 28, 2009

Ah, the smell of a new Mac OS X in the morning… There was a line at the Apple Store yet no free t-shirts as before. I hear almost everything is faster – and things will just get faster as applications start taking advantage of OpenCL and Grand Central.

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There’s an app for that

By kirsch | August 26, 2009
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No longer missing iPhone features

By kirsch | June 17, 2009

In June of 2007 I wrote a post titled “Seemingly obvious software features missing from the iPhone“.
Today, iPhone OS 3.0 will be available and the iPhone 3G S is shipping, so I thought it’d be interesting to see how things stand now.
Below is the original list, with the items that are now covered striked through:

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Browser comparison

By kirsch | June 13, 2009

Safari 4 just came out of beta. I gave it a try at my work computer (a Windows XP machine) just to go back to Chrome shortly after. Now I’m back with Safari. The main reason? Text rendering. See, in Safari you can configure the browser to render its text like Mac OS X does. [...]

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Today’s quote: Steve Wozniak

By kirsch | March 10, 2009

After hearing that judge Bruno Tonioli of Dancing with the Stars said: “It was like watching a Teletubby going mad in a gay pride parade”.
 
I think it should be noted that Teletubbies aired for 5 years, had 365 episodes, and a #1 music single! I’d take that as a compliment.
You can watch Woz dancing like a [...]

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Some dancing

By kirsch | March 10, 2009

Enjoy these two videos of highly skilled dancers: Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak in Dancing with Stars and The MKX® founder’s nieces at some Purim festival.

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Safari 4 beta

By kirsch | February 25, 2009

The good people at Apple released Safari 4 beta yesterday. For those not in the know, Safari is Apple’s web browser. According to the traffic analysis for The MKX® (more on that sometime next month), a large amount of readers are still using Internet Explorer.
At home, I’ve been using Safari for years. Before that I [...]

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