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Why not to use Bit Torrent

January 23, 2009

Well, I’m being a little hypocritical with my headline on this one since I use Bit Torrent from time to time (for legal things!) but I’m very aware that this stuff could contain something malicious if not simply annoying. Now there is proof of an actual malicious Trojan Horse for the Mac! Let’s repeat: a [...]

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Bush’s White House computers: stuck in the 90′s

January 22, 2009

Obama Staff Arrives to White House Stuck in Dark Ages of Technology – washingtonpost.com One member of the White House new-media team came to work on Tuesday, right after the swearing-in ceremony, only to discover that it was impossible to know which programs could be updated, or even which computers could be used for which [...]

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Goodbye Macworld, Goodbye Apple

January 9, 2009

Macworld 2009 is over and Apple won't be back. We will miss you. Steve Jobs, I hope you reconsider coming back in 2010! If there is a Macworld next year, I'll be back.

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The Delorian!

January 8, 2009

Just stumbled across this and thought it was pretty cool! It looks like the full-on delorian from the Back to the Future movie!

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Woz!

January 8, 2009

He loves that modbook and we love him so we love the modbook!!! However, he's having some problems with the presentation that make me cringe, but it's great to see him and it's pretty impressive what axiotron has done with the modbook. Apparently they're coming out with a touchscreen version soon called ModBook Pro, so [...]

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Beautiful SF by night

January 8, 2009

I really like this city. Steve and I had a great (and overpriced) cup of tea at the Samovar tea lounge above the moscone center tonight. It was a cold and beautiful evening…

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Macheads!

January 7, 2009

"don't love apple, love the mac community" is a quote from this documentary about the mac and its extremely loyal base of followers… I mean users. I was one of the 45,000 mac evangelists in the late 90's before Steve jobs came back and saved the company. To say I have mixed feelings about the [...]

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How to keep up with me…

January 7, 2009

If you’re reading this, you’re already doing pretty well because most of my Macworld posts will be on this blog. But sometimes there won’t be time to do a full post and I’m just going to twitter…. or brightkite… or digg or something. To keep up with all of it at once and not worry [...]

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Artsy skins…

January 6, 2009

Gelaskins – Pretty cool stuff if you like cluttering up your beautiful mac or iPhone. I don't know who was asking for something like this but I'm posting this for you!

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Be still my camera

January 6, 2009

Tripods aren't a new thing, but when they grip and twist they expand your shooting options! My pentax optio X gives me swivel and twist but most cameras don't have any ability to get that perfect angle with a long exposure… But with the gorillapod they will!

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