Jon Stewart's iPhone: Product placement or pop culture?
Last night I was watching the Oscars (go Ratatouille!) frantically adding movies to my Netflix queue when host Jon Stewart did a bit about his iPhone.
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Jason D. O'Grady
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Join a user group
This weekend was the tenth anniversary of the Philadelphia PowerBook Users Group (PPUG), a mobile Mac user group I co-founding with my podcasting partner Rob Parker. Being at that meeting this weekend reminded me about why user group meetings are great: I learn something at every meeting.
MacBook Air Diary-Day 23: Lovin' the F8 key
Apple's new, low-throw, "chiclet" style keyboard arrived to great controversy. First in the MacBook, then again when it was adopted as the defacto standard USB keyboard for all Macs, replacing the clear lucite and white 109-key keyboard.
MacBook Air: Motion sensor 'bizarrely' enabled with solid-state disk option
MacBook Air owners will find that Apple's motion-sensing technology — to protect hard disk drives in notebooks — is enabled even on models with the solid-state disk option.
Will the MacBook Air ruin the MacBook Pro?
Real-world tests of the MacBook Air sound good. But could the ultralight's success push Apple to slim-down the MacBook Pro, cutting its performance potential?
MacBook Air Diary-Day 22: Argh! Recessed headphone jack
It's almost as if Apple didn't learn anything from the recessed headphone jack fiasco with iPhone. The MacBook Air, my friends, also has a recessed headphone jack.
MacBook Pro Penryn update imminent (updated)
In reading the Apple teas leaves it appears that a MacBook Pro update is imminent. A source tells me that it's within-the-next-30-days imminent.
Revealed: The mysteries of Apple's logo and other high-tech brands
Like other high-tech companies, Apple sometimes changes its logo to better express its brand and its current corporate personality. However, few of the logos from its silicon-era peers has undergone such a vast transformation as Apple.
Apple updates Xsan, gets out of RAID business
Apple on Tuesday released its Xsan 2 package, a major revision to its Storage Area Networking software package. The update revamps administration tools, adds support for third-party storage and features Spotlight/Leopard Server optimizations.
MacBook Air Diary-Day 20: Cutting the cord
Yesterday, I blogged about traveling light and paring down my computer bag down to a MacBook Air in a simple sleeve. Today I want to ween myself off wired network connections.