Macintosh-related Parries
April 2012
From Nokia N95 to iPhone 4S
Annoyances and upsets with the iPhone 4S have been more than offset by its screen, the silkiness of its surfaces, the camera, and the third-party market for both software and hardware.
October 2011
The Mouse and the Cantilever
Steve Jobs we lost at the age of 56; when Frank Lloyd Wright reached that age it was still only 1923, the time of merely his second comeback with Tokyo’s Imperial Hotel.
March 2010
Before the Setup
Nobody from usesthis.com has asked me what my setup us, nor is likely to anytime soon. So I’m just going to mouth off here about it. But first, some background.
January 2009
Panning for MacBook Pro
Even if it did nothing, was just a prop in a futuristic movie, the MacBook Pro would be impressive. It’s like a sculpture of my previous computer, the MacBook, except it’s actually an improved computer! So even though I’m looking at it now and touching it to write these words, I’m going to stop now just to look at it and touch it.
March 2008
Why AAPL
Apple’s operating system will, I believe, become in time the dominant one, and with a current market share of only 6% or so, that’s a lot more computers to sell. And as the only operating system seller that also sells the computers it runs on, as well as owning the shops they’re sold from, Apple stands to become a colossus, even a frightening one.
Macintosh-related Photos
No Latmag on Macintosh
And on the Trail
Fri 20 Apr ’12
The Guardian’s Battle for the Internet feature, including Tim Berners-Lee’s warning about walled gardens. BTW, if you’re reading this on Facebook, I don’t write these Train entries on Facebook, but on my own site at http://adamkhan.net, and a nice Facebook app called RSS Graffiti sends them over.
Fri 16 Mar ’12
Wed 7 Mar ’12
Sun 4 Mar ’12
Taking his time, Morozov asks the right questions about Steve Jobs, comparing him first to the Bauhaus movement, then to Henry Ford. Many quotable quotes, and good comments, especially the long one from JakeH at 02/27/2012 – 7:46pm EDT.
Sat 4 Feb ’12
Toca Boca: ingenious iOS games for kids and not such.
Thu 13 Oct ’11
The inevitable and welcomed iPhone 4S teardown by the ifixit guys.
Wed 12 Oct ’11
Arstechnica, the iOS 5 review. Featuring game-changers Siri and the iCloud.
Sun 9 Oct ’11
Best of the Steve Jobs eulogies: John Siracusa, David Pogue. And one about his house. A favorable comparison with Thomas Edison.
Thu 6 Oct ’11
Fri 26 Aug ’11
After Steve Jobs’ resignation, the Daringfireball round-up of anecdotes: Dave Winer, David Cairns, Vic Gundotra, Allen Paltrow, Jonathan Berger, Marc Hedlund.
Tue 2 Aug ’11
I’m upset that Spaces is gone in Lion. Others concur.
Sun 24 Jul ’11
Mon 16 May ’11
One persuasive theory: Microsoft is only buying Skype to stop Google from doing so.
Thu 21 Apr ’11
Wed 30 Mar ’11
Why an iPad? Seth Godin explains.
Tue 29 Mar ’11
A woman of a certain age, who’s never used a computer before, reviews her new iPad.
Fri 15 Oct ’10
Scully on Jobs.
Tue 3 Aug ’10
I’m loving inertial scrolling on my MacBook Pro. Thanks, Apple.
Wed 7 Jul ’10
Google argues that its mobile YouTube site is better than its YouTube iPhone app.
Fri 2 Jul ’10
Falling out of love with the iPad. None of this surprises me.
Wed 30 Jun ’10
Mon 28 Jun ’10
Thu 22 Apr ’10
Mon 5 Apr ’10
Adam Engst: “The iPad becomes the app you’re using… if that’s not magic, I don’t know what is.”
Video surveying Magazines on the iPad such as Time, GQ, PopSci. Is this any improvement over my Firefox? What I want an iPad for is games and maybe books, not magazines.
Sun 4 Apr ’10
MuscleNerd jailbreaks iPad.
iPad teardown with high-res shots.
Tue 16 Feb ’10
Tue 2 Feb ’10
Russell Beattie: What we really wanted was a MacPad not an iPad.
Sat 30 Jan ’10
Sikuli, ingenious GUI scripting. Definitely going to try it.
Tue 26 Jan ’10
This video of a tablet mockup makes me horny at last for a tablet computer. I’m excited for tomorrow’s Apple announcement. Guess I’ll be standing in line to buy one as well.
Fake Steve Jobs pens the most insightful piece I’ve read on Google’s complaints vis-a-vis China.
Fri 22 Jan ’10
A test of input device speed for a 221-word passage.
Sat 12 Dec ’09
Tour-de-force rant to AT&T by Fake Steve. Fake Steve Jobs 2012!
Sun 6 Dec ’09
Try Ommwriter, the enlightened text editor. Mac only, obviously.
Thu 24 Sep ’09
Looks cool: The ExpressionEngine control panel on your iPhone. Clients, do you want it?