Tag: apple

  • OS X 10.10 Yosemite

    OS X 10.10 Yosemite: The Ars Technica Review by John Siracusa My rating: 5 of 5 stars I have read every one of Siracusa’s epic OS X reviews since 10.5 on. Lately they provide my feature overview before I get around to installing the actual update; this year is no different. One of the best…

  • Keyboard

    Someone on our street discarded one of my favorite keyboards. Sad.

  • Backup in Progress

    I like my nerdy volume names.

  • Mavericks

    Download only took about 20 minutes. Not too shabby.

  • Warp Core Online

    Upgrade is in process. It’s a raw computation upgrade of about 2.5x, but the Fusion Drive makes a ridiculous performance improvement over my old spinning disks.

  • Merry Applemas

    I’m upgrade legible and ready for a shiny new 5S.

  • Camouflage

    When older iMacs realize they’ve reached the end of their lives, they attempt to hide their body from scavengers. Sadly, this noble creature’s RAM has already been stripped. (If I weren’t in an apartment, I’d grab this for a Macquarium.)

  • Steve Jobs: A Biography

    Steve Jobs: A Biography by Walter Isaacson My rating: 3 of 5 stars I think the main feature of this book that I would emphasize is that it is, in fact, a biography about a flawed man, and not so much a history of his technical achievements. As a computer geek and long-time MacAddict, I…

  • Reality Distorted

    I had just gotten home from work on Wednesday night, when I read this tweet from my friend and fellow Apple fan Andrew. It was certainly a surprise, to the point where I initially doubted it (or perhaps hoped it wasn’t true), but the stream of traffic from my tech-oriented Twitter feed made it fairly…

  • Is the iPad for me?

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    What’s the question? Like every other critic and salivating fanboy, I feel compelled to chime in on yesterday’s religious experience in which The Steve descended from on high bearing a tablet. However, this is not a review, but merely a (lengthy) answer to a simple question: is the iPad for me? I won’t be talking…