From the monthly archives:

September 2009

Tweetie pricing fuss highlights App Store flaw – Macworld

September 30, 2009

Tweetie pricing fuss highlights App Store flaw: “But three dollars, right? I mean, with that much money I could buy a third of a movie ticket! I could take the subway one and a half times! I could pay the convenience charge on the parking ticket I got last night (thanks, City of Somerville). And [...]

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Apple tablet: Mac OS, or iPhone OS?

September 30, 2009

Will the Apple tablet run Mac OS X, or iPhone OS X? I think this source of Mary Jo Foley’s sums up why it will be iPhone, even though he’s talking about Microsoft’s Courier tablet: “You can’t install Windows 7 apps on Courier, the source said, and that’s intentional.The original Microsoft Tablets ‘failed because the applications [...]

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Is Apple suffering from “feature creep”?

September 26, 2009

Image by Getty Images via Daylife Practical Mac certainly thinks so with the iPod nano: “Apple throws in 15 video effects, like sepia tone, that can be used for video recording, but those effects have to be activated before shooting and can’t later be removed. These effects are pointless, the kind of feature creep that [...]

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How I’ve spent my career getting it wrong (and don’t regret a thing)

September 23, 2009

From 1995 to 2006 or thereabouts, I was a full-time journalist mostly working on the Mac market. I did pretty-much every kind of writing you can do about Macs, from help and advice to sermon-on-the-mount editorials. But most of the time, I was that most oft-critiqued of animals: a reporter, a writer of news. A [...]

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links for 2009-09-23

September 23, 2009

How to install OS X on an HP Mini netbook (tags: mac hackintosh) Announcing Ubuntu 10.04 LTS: The Lucid Lynx (tags: ubuntu linux)

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Just because

September 22, 2009

John Gruber, 2008: “I find that it is easy to be right with what I report, because I only report what I know to be true. This is not some sort of high standard. It is basic journalism.” John Gruber, 2009: “The most important iPod, the Touch, is getting a camera…” Basic journalism turns out [...]

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