I think that the new iPods look great, but that the best news out of Apple today was the price reduction on the classic AppleTV devices… only $149 while supplies last… Classic AppleTV (160GB) The new AppleTV also looks pretty cool, and at $99 it will likely be a market success, but it does not [...]
Tagged Apple, AppleTV, media centerA lot of us have Linksys home routers. They are cheap, effective, and easy to use. I’ve have a BEFSR81 8 port fast ethernet broadband router/firewall for many years… it recently started locking up when anyone in the house shops Amazon.com using Firefox (started in early May we think). Frequently the router will lock up [...]
Tagged home networking, Linksys BEFSR81, routerGiven all the stability problems I’ve had with Safari recently I was glad Apple announced a new, more stable version today (v5.0.1). I ran Software Update and two installs were suggested: Magic Trackpad and Multi-Touch Update 1.0 Safari 5.0.1 I agreed to both and Software Update downloaded them, then told me it needed to restart [...]
Tagged SafariWork laptop suffered catastrophic hard drive crash last night, and like a fool I had not backed up in a few weeks. Moral of the story: back up regularly. Usually I can recover data from a failed drive, but so far this one is not surrendering any bits I care about… All my own machines [...]
Is anyone else noticing a dramatic increase in web browser crashes since upgrading to Safari 5? I am on Version 5.0 (6533.16) with Mac OS X 10.6.3 at work – and even with flash blocked, and the extensions turned off my Safari crashes several times an hour. Update: I upgraded to Max OS 10.6.4 and [...]
A few years ago we upgraded our wired network at home to do Gigabit Ethernet throughout the house, an upgrade I have loved since the day we did it. We used a Netgear ProSafe 16 Port Gigabit Switch (GS116 v1) as the main switch in our wiring closet, and D-Link “Green” DGS-2205 and DGS-2208 gigabit [...]
Tagged computer networkingTired of those annoying IntelliTXT ads? They can be blocked with this simple extension for Safari, hurrah! http://homepage.mac.com/drewthaler/jsblacklist/ JavaScript Blacklist also blocks those annoying snap.com previews, and the stupid tynt copy & paste blocker (though I have not been running into either of these as much lately). Thank you Drew Thaler! Update: First you will [...]
I think John Gruber has an excellent analysis up of the new pricing plans coming out of AT&T. http://daringfireball.net/2010/06/good_and_bad_regarding_att_data_plans AT&T’s decision to charge more for tethering without giving more bandwidth is unsustainable and it should be called a “$20 bullshit fee” just as Gruber suggests. The market will demand a fix to the $20 bullshit [...]
OK, I confess I was wrong about the Apple iPad canvas. I thought it would be a laptop and netbook replacement only for the non-technical majority… internet and content consumers. I figured it would be a very sleek and sexy design, I anticipated that people would want them, and I figured out that once the [...]
My first computer experiences where through printer/terminals to mainframe computers. A Multics system at Rome Labs that we got access to as members of the local Explorer Post; and a DEC-10 running TOPS-20 at Syracuse University. The common language on both was UCI Common LISP 2.0 – and LISP may have permanently warped my programming [...]
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