Archive for the 'geeky tidbits' Category

The iPad is The Future Of Laptops

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010

You can read it over at TMO (where there are some *great* comments) and/or watch it in my interview with TheDigitalLifestyle.tv. Or, you know, right here below.

iPhone OS Multitasking Idea

Monday, February 1st, 2010

I had what I consider to be quite a fantastic idea for solving a lot of the complaints about the iPhone OS’s lack of multitasking support for third-party apps. I wrote about it over at TMO, so you can see it there. Enjoy!

My Lightning Lessons

Monday, January 25th, 2010

Just posted an article about my lightning experiences and lessons learned over at TMO that *should* have gone live a year ago, but got lost in the system. Thankfully a conversation sparked up this weekend on the Macworld Forums about Chris Breen’s related power experiences, and it sent me to seek out this old article [...]

Skype for iPhone thoughts

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009

Skype for the iPhone came out last night, and I spent a little time with it, and wrote a lot about it. Don’t worry, I’ve been using Skype regularly for years, so most of what I wrote is actually real stuff I didn’t make up!
The article’s posted over at iPodObserver today, and even [...]

First trip with the iPhone

Monday, August 18th, 2008

My recent trip to New Media Expo was my first travel experience since I moved from the Treo 650 to the new iPhone 3G. Overall, I think it the move was positive.
Web browsing was, as expected, far and beyond a better experience than I’ve had previously. No surprise here.
Those of you who [...]

My Backup Strategy

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

On a few recent Mac Geek Gab episodes I’ve mentioned my current backup strategy and more than a few listeners have asked me to document this somewhere. I figured this blog was as good a place as any.
Starting in 1995 and up until February when Apple’s Time Capsule came out, I was a died-in-the-wool Retrospect [...]

Mobile blogging

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

For years I’ve complained that the only time I think to blog something is when I’m away from my computer and, hence, nothing gets blogged. My blog frequency certainly supports that. Now that WordPress for the iPhone is out, perhaps that will change and you’ll hear more from me here, as well. Time will [...]

Lean, Clean, and Mean Session Online

Monday, April 7th, 2008

The audio and slide-video from the “Running Your Mac Lean, Clean, and Mean” session I did at Macworld Expo 2008 is now freely available online.

SXSW Debrief

Monday, March 17th, 2008

As most readers know, last week I attended the South by Southwest conference for the first time. I caught the last bits of the film festival, and then was there for both Interactive and Music. I reported on this over at The Mac Observer and iPodObserver.com throughout the week, as follows:

Twitterized Attendees Shape The Show
Music [...]

Winter Migration (of the Computing kind)

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008

As many listeners of our Mac Geek Gab podcast know, I recently purchased a new 2.6GHz 15″ MacBook Pro from Apple. It arrived yesterday, but I really didn’t get a chance to even begin setting it up until today. Honestly, if I wasn’t traveling to Austin, Texas next week, I probably would have waited longer [...]