Every year Strawberry Banke holds an event called Springfest that brings local farms and artisans together to share products and experiences that represent the historic farming in New England. Visitors can see animals, experience activities like sheep shearing and honey extraction, and purchase homemade goods. We visited a few weeks ago, and while the weather …
Simple Beep – Ultimate Follow Up Part IV
I've covered a lot of larger topics from the podcasts, but there are a bunch of little things as well. Let's close out with my thoughts on some of the smaller items. Odds & Ends Myst (Episode 16 - June 2015) The hosts mentioned that Hulu had the rights to make a Myst miniseries. This …
Simple Beep – Ultimate Follow Up Part III
In the last installment we reminisced on the Intel era and the one time Steve Jobs was publicly yelled at by developers. In this edition, we're looking at some photo books focused on Apple design and setting the record straight on the iPhone. Designed By Apple in California Simple Beep hosted two shows about Apple …
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Simple Beep – Ultimate Follow Up Part II
In the last installment we reviewed the Butterfly Keyboard and iTunes 13 vaporware. In this edition we'll look at Intel Macs, angry engineers, and AI. Intel Macs Apple completed the transition to Intel in 2006 and Simple Beep celebrated in its January 2016 episode with a look back at the transition. They made some interesting comments and …
Sharing AC Shadows
I bought my first dedicated gaming PC in 2014 and replaced it after numerous upgrades in late 2023. I intentionally kept it around so that the boys could use it for light gaming as its GeForce RTX 2070 is still capable at 1080p even in modern games. The boys were generally iPad gamers, but occasionally …
Simple Beep – Ultimate Follow Up
Simple Beep is a podcast focused on the history of Apple and the Mac community. It’s hosted by childhood friends Brian Sutorius and Ed Cormady, who discuss topics from Apple’s history and their experience with them. The podcast started in 2014 and released 90 episodes by its end in 2021. I’ve listened to nearly every episode, …
iPhone 17 & Apple Watch 10
I’ve had my iPhone 17 Pro and Apple Watch Series 10 for a half a year now. It’s about time for some reviews. iPhone 17 Pro Let’s cut to the chase: the most important feature of the iPhone 17 Pro for me is the color. That’s why I bought it. 1The color is great. I’m …
The MacBook Neo is Here!
Apple capped off a three-day product release extravaganza a couple weeks ago with what to many was its most anticipated product: a “cheap” MacBook. It’s been rumored for years, I wrote about it in November (see how my predictions landed), and it’s finally here. Say hello to MacBook Neo. I’ll get to my thoughts in a bit, but let’s cut to …
The Low Cost MacBook: How Did I Do?
The long-rumored low-cost MacBook was released last week as the MacBook Neo. It’s a 13” laptop based on an iPhone chip and offers 8 GB RAM, 256 GB storage, and four color options starting at $599. I’ll post my thoughts about it in a bit after some of the reviews come out, but today I’d like …
Adaptec SCSI PC Card
Back in the nineties, before USB was the common way to connect everything from keyboards to RAIDs to junk from Temu, SCSI was the king of fast storage connections. Macs had a form of SCSI since the 1986 Mac Plus and an entire ecosystem of hard drives, scanners, and removable storage drives were built around …
Relatively Ambitious 