It looks like Steve Jobs’ medical issues are a little more serious than originally reported. It’s being reported that he’s taking medical leave until the end of June. There’s no executive more important to a tech company than Jobs. I hope the guy makes it back better than ever. Even though I’ve been an Apple [...]
Popularity has its drawbacks. As the iPhone and the Mac gain in popularity, hackers are starting to take notice.
Part of the reason for increased popularity of Macintosh computers is that Apple has made the machines friendlier to running programs popular on Windows-based machines.
Hackers experienced with attacking Windows programs can apply some of their know-how to [...]
I finally made it back* from the MacWorld 2008 Expo, and I figured I would share my thoughts on a couple items. First off, the $20 upgrade to the firmware for the iPod touch. Like Johnny Mac once said, “You can’t be serious!” There’s no question that Apple makes great products, but charging for a [...]
Wow! Don’t dare say anything negative about Apple. At least if you don’t want to be flamed. Robert Scoble ranted about his bad experience with an update to the Mac OS and the long knives came out. Some people even went as far as to call Scoble a Microsoft shill!?! Do they even read this [...]
I try to be a stand-up guy. If I make a mistake, I’ll be the first to admit it. Saying all that, I guess it’s time for me to eat a little crow. In a previous post I ranted about the lack of an SDK for the iPhone, but now it’s time to give credit where [...]
In part one of my series on scripting iTunes using C# I showed you how to remove dead tracks from your iTunes library. Now let’s take it one step further and get rid of all those duplicate tracks you might have. For my purposes, I determined a duplicate track to be any track that has the same artist, [...]
While reading Jeff Atwood’s excellent Coding Horror blog entry today about branching and source control I had a flashback to my childhood reading Marvel comics. He mentioned the What If series, and it just got me thinking of other what if tech scenarios. The first what if I want to discuss is the iPhone.
What if [...]
If you’re like me you’ve got thousands of songs in your iTunes library. I got a new notebook PC a couple months back, and I decided to move all my music to it since it’s got plenty of disk space. I know I had lots of songs in my library whose files didn’t exist anymore. [...]