One of Apple’s most famous bombs was the Newton. Released to much hype, it simply didn’t live up to its expectations. It was able to recognize one’s handwriting, whether one wrote on it with printed block lettering or cursive, but it did this by comparing what you wrote to a list of 10,000 words stored … Continue reading Newton’s Apple
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The Woz Plan
I’m enjoying David Pogue’s book Apple: The First 50 Years, as it’s bringing back a lot of memories. Not that I was an Apple fan during its first 25 years or so. When I first discovered computers in the early 1980s, I pretty much avoided Apple and found them annoying. Unlike Microsoft, which I hated … Continue reading The Woz Plan
David and Steve
David Pogue has a substack blog now and he’s written “Five stories from 50 years” about his interactions with Apple and Steve Jobs that is well worth reading. Not all his interactions with Steve Jobs were happy ones, and when he wrote something in his tech column for the New York Times that Jobs didn’t … Continue reading David and Steve
MakeMKV Permissions Problem
This is a solution to a problem that I had with the app MakeMKV since upgrading to the Mac Studio with Tahoe. MakeMKV is the app that I use to rip DVDs and Blu-rays, and ever since the upgrade, every time I start it up it asks for permission to access removable drives, even though … Continue reading MakeMKV Permissions Problem
The First 50 Years
Steve Jobs might very well still be with us if he hadn’t tried to treat his cancer with quack, “alternative medicine” techniques. He had a form of pancreatic cancer that could have responded to treatment, but he waited too long before checking into a hospital. He was a brilliant man in many ways, but he … Continue reading The First 50 Years
Why Is This Guy Smiling?
I really didn’t mean for it to happen, but I was so keyed up after the Mac mini upgrade, that I was champing at the bit to swap out my seven year old iMac Pro with its hot running Intel chip for a spanking new Mac Studio with an Apple M4 Max chip. So on Sunday … Continue reading Why Is This Guy Smiling?
How Do You Spell Relief?
I followed the instructions step by step after connecting all the external disk drives to the new Mac mini and making all the necessary connections, and I was ready to start up Plex. Here are the new and the old Mac minis side by side.The new one is on the left. But I hesitated. The … Continue reading How Do You Spell Relief?
Busy Day
It’s been a busy day, with more work ahead of me. I opted not to use Apple’s migration utility but simply configured the new Mac mini from scratch, having forgotten how many little tweaks I make to the settings. I’ve been copying disks and configuring the new Mac mini, and I had to place a … Continue reading Busy Day
The New mini
I have been in need of new Macs for some time. My desktop iMac is seven years old (I expected it to last for five years) and the Mac mini that I use as a server for my Plex library (that’s how I watch most of my TV and movies and other videos) is nearly … Continue reading The New mini
A Difference in More Than Style
On a recent episode of Scriptnotes Craig Mazin noted the contrast between Steve Jobs’s announcement of the iPhone and Elon Musk’s announcement of the cybertruck. Jobs’s presentation was carefully planned down to the smallest detail, and it went off without a problem. You can watch an excerpt of it here. By contrast, Musk’s presentation was … Continue reading A Difference in More Than Style