Chuq von Rospach has an interesting post about the leaked MBA rumors. I’ll address this in a bit. Additionally, someone (sorry, can’t find a link to it right now) suggested I try a 13″ Retina MacBook Pro and use it in the scaled mode to get my current resolution. First, Someone Thought I Was Trolling […]
Explaining Some Hardware Whinging—I Love My MacBook Air
First, I want to say this: though I worked at Apple to September 2013, I have no actual knowledge of Apple’s future hardware plans. So, on the off chance that I happened to sign an NDA relating to the device I’m commenting about, I honestly didn’t know that that was the case. I believe every […]
Apple Mail Tip: Unread Emails
I’m sometimes horrible about marking some kinds of items as read or deleting them. Things like: People favoriting my tweets. LiveJournal comment notifications. Newsletters I don’t have time to read right away. New product notices from my very favorite vendors. Unfortunately, I sometimes skip important messages by mistake. At the moment, I have (gulp) 182 […]
How I Came to Be a Mac Person
I never owned an Apple ][, but I did own an Apple ///. And yeah, the numbering really was like that. I didn’t immediately take to the Mac. It was different in weird ways, and I was mostly working on CP/M systems at the time. In January 1985, the year after the Mac was released, […]
New Shoes
I’ve got a new Mac, a Mac Book Pro. As this came at the end of a very long, exhausting week, I’m glad it’s done. Unfortunately, I bought it because I needed it. Saturday afternoon, after my mother was sprung from the hospital, I discovered that my Mac wasn’t charging. Fortunately, it ran off batteries […]