Now what?

A mishmash of thoughts on religion, life, technology, and whatnot.

I’m not a PC

Well if Neocon Ben Ferguson is a PC, I'm definitely a Mac. The Seinfeld ads were a disaster, but these are an improvement. The problem is that sure, a lot of people use PC's, but do they harbor the same affinity for them and for the brand that Mac users have? ...

Mobile Mess - again

[caption id="attachment_420" align="alignright" width="300" caption="MobileMe Support"][/caption] The MobileMess problems continue. A post on TUAW details how Apple wouldn't even talk to someone who couldn't get their email because Apple's records say that he's not one of the people who can't get access. He goes on to get support via the chat ...

Talking Business - Apple’s Culture of Secrecy - NYTimes.com

Talking Business - Apple’s Culture of Secrecy - NYTimes.com. The final word (?) on Steve Jobs' health? Interesting article that has a nugget of new information at the end of it. Would the death of Steve Jobs be the end of Apple? Hard to say. When he left the first time (and ...

Loopt on the iPhone - Uninstall it now

Merlin Mann is really up in arms about Loopt's SMS invite system, and rightfully so. I think I may have accidentally done the same thing without realizing it. The app has some potential, but the setup process on it doesn't make it clear what it is doing. And Justine is ...

MobileMe - Not So Pushy

Like I said in my last piece, I'll reserve final judgement on MobileMe for a few days, but one question has been answered by Apple: Symptoms With MobileMe Push, you can choose how often your computer syncs your contacts, calendars, and other sync data via MobileMe.   If you select "Automatically", changes made ...

iPhone 3G Review

Well, if you followed my Twitter feed or Facebook status yesterday, you'd know that it was a long day. I dropped Anna off at her daycamp, took the day off, and thought I'd go get a phone, head over to get a haircut, have lunch with Jamie, etc. I knew ...

iPhone 3G

Why does it have to be $199. Now I have to figure out how I'm going to get one. :-) I think Apple just created themselves a license to print money. Take the iPhone, which is still a joy to use a year later, add in twice as fast internet access ...

Macworld 2008

I had to head to Birmingham today for an Encounter weekend team meeting. The keynote started at 11am, and I didn't get here until Noon. So did I miss keeping up with the liveblog of the keynote? Not a chance. :-) It's the Mac Holy Day. Macrumors.com had an excellent iPhone formatted ...

Viruses and Romney

Today's Drudge Report page has the headline: APPLE's rising popularity lures hackers; Macs increasingly targeted for attack... News to me. If Mac malware goes from 2 to 4, then you can write a huge headline that says, Mac malware increases by 100%!!!! I may regret it someday, but my Mac at work ...

Leopard (Mac OSX 10.5)

After playing with the Leopard beta a few months back (see my impressions from then), I was not convinced that it was going to ship on time. It was just too buggy. When Tiger came out, it was really buggy too. I feel like the initial release of 10.4 was ...

January 5th 2009
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iPhone EDGE users getting hosed?

AT&T screwing its EDGE iPhone users? | 9 to 5 Mac.   When I was in the Shoals area visiting over the holidays, I did notice that EDGE was way slower there than I remember it being when I was having to use it when I had the original iPhone. I could ...
January 3rd 2009
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Winter Geocaching

Scenes from around the Wolf River as we were out geocaching yesterday: [gallery] Because of the great weather we've had over the break, I've had the chance to get in some geocache hunts. Today we hit a couple of the easier park and grab ones while out for lunch, but the main ...
January 2nd 2009
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Great Stuff from the App Store

It's amazing how many apps are released in 1 week for the iPhone. Since the App Store was launched, I've followed the RSS feed from PinchMedia that lists all the apps that get added, and there are easily 500 per week. Most are useless, or lousy, but out of 500 ...
December 31st 2008
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Weightbot for iPhone

Click to Read: Lifehacker: Weightbot Tracks Your Weight with Pretty Graphs, Friendly Interface. Weightbot has been getting a lot of press here lately. I'll echo the praise, it's a great iPhone app to go along with all those New Year's Resolutions to lose weight. It's got an outstanding UI, really makes ...
December 28th 2008
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Hey Ladies - The Best Music of 2008

Why Hey Ladies? There's a significant trend this year with a record number of female voices in my choices for this year's mix—half of the songs. Last year, it was two. The other big trend was that this was the year of the male/female duo, most of them married couples. ...