Too many hobbies, not enough focus
It was late 1996 and Apple was trying to recover from a string of failed products, internal mismanagement, and a financial crisis. The PowerBook 1400 was built to rectify the issues Apple had with the 5300 and satisfy the needs of its notebook customers. While it was indeed a large improvement over the 5300, it …
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I made a mistake today. It was an honest oversight, I simply wasn't paying any attention, but the impact was enormous, far more earth-shattering than I expected. The result was a critical meltdown of the Zachary reactor that flooded the streets with tears, burst ear drums with high pitched screeches, and shook the earth with …
Even in the unlikely event that Firefox OS itself disappears in the process, if web-apps become mainstream, it will have succeeded. That's a quote from Sergi Mansilla, a developer for Firefox OS, a new mobile platform from Mozilla. Mozilla is creating a platform for phones that runs HTML apps. Sound familiar? Palm tried that with …
It's the Blizzard of '13 people, watch out! Starting tomorrow morning, the East Coast is going to be pummeled with up to two feet of snow depending on how the storm moves. If it lives up to its reputation, this storm will be worse than the Blizzard of '77 which was New Hampshire's last mega-blizzard. …
Microsoft is set to release its second tablet this weekend, Surface Pro, which attempts to be a "best of both worlds" tablet – a powerful computer that converts from tablet to laptop with the click of a keyboard. It sports an Intel Core i5 CPU, Intel HD 4000 graphics, 4 GB of RAM, and 64 …
All of my Macs are technically part of the Mac Museum, but only the Macs that physically reside in it truly meet the criteria (i.e. are relatively old and no longer in active use). Thus it was an exciting/sad day a couple of weeks ago when Sally's 24" iMac moved down to the basement to join …
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when Zachary reads "Funny Farm" and points out every individual pig on the page – "its zee peeg, zee peeg, zee piig. peeg" when Adam walks into the office and requests that I play music on my Mac and dances to it when the boys point at a picture of a computer and say "Daddy" …
Aside from not making a lot of sense since Apple just changed the screen size of the iPhone, this has to be one of the most horrible product names I've ever heard of, even if it's internal. http://www.macrumors.com/2013/01/20/apple-rumored-to-debut-4-8-inch-iphone-math-in-june/
I look in a variety of places for additions to the Mac Museum – eBay, Craigslist, FreeCycle, other online venues, friends, yard sales, local thrift stores – but sometimes I find things in places I'd never think of, like the Dover Recycling Center. I went there yesterday to drop off a printer and a case …
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The annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) recently finished up and one of the big topics this year was "Ultra HD" (formerly known as 4k) resolution for TVs. The big draw of Ultra HD is that it has four times the pixels of 1080p HD and is just that much more clear and amazing. Think of …
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