Apple

Vermyndax on April 15th, 2009

Hi, just dropping in from raiding the lands of healthy heroes and creamy young virgins to let you in on a quick Apple Mail tip. Do you use Apple Mail in an environment with Outlook?  In particular, do those Outlook users prefer HTML mail?  Do you receive mail from them with a microscopic font size? [...]

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Vermyndax on March 28th, 2009

Image by tom ferris via Flickr Apple finally announced the WWDC 2009 dates and they couldn’t have targeted a better week. It looks like I will become a representative for my agency on the Calconnect standards organization.  They happen to be having a meeting at Oracle in Redwood Shores, CA the week prior to WWDC. [...]

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Vermyndax on February 17th, 2009

I was really, really excited to try out iLife ’09, the successor to the really nice iLife ’08 suite.  I run porkbuns.org with iWeb publishing to MobileMe because hey, that’s what that kind of thing is made for. You can imagine my dismay and disappointment when I discovered that some kind of problem is preventing [...]

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Vermyndax on January 11th, 2009

Rather than spend an inordinate amount of time trying to pump out information about Macworld 2009, I thought it would be more appropriate to soak in the entire show and let my brain stew on it a little bit.  I twittered the keynote quite a bit, so that was me trying to play journalist.  For [...]

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Vermyndax on January 5th, 2009

For those of you who are interested in the Macworld keynote that will be occurring tomorrow… I have a guaranteed seat to attend and am planning to Twitter the presentation as it occurs. I said planning. That does not include getting busted by any Apple employees or whatnot. If you want to follow my Twitter [...]

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Vermyndax on December 31st, 2008

Image via Wikipedia Did anyone catch the memo?  The one that said Apple is done with Macworld after this year because they want to announce products on their own timeline?  Yeah that one.  I thought you saw that one. People seem to have forgotten it already.  There’s rampant speculation all over the net about products [...]

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Vermyndax on November 19th, 2008

If you were subscribed to my Twitter feed, you would have known in near real time that today I had one seriously exciting treat. I managed to squeeze my way into a tour group being led by the incredible Jack Garman here at Johnson Space Center. Think I would turn down such a chance? Absolutely [...]

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Vermyndax on September 4th, 2008

Continuing my recent tradition of expressing what are likely to be fairly unpopular opinions with my peers, tonight I’m going to rag on Google‘s “Chrome” project and tell you why this is a Bad Idea ™.  I’ll try to keep this short (update: I failed).  This is considered to be a discussion starter, not a [...]

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Vermyndax on August 18th, 2008

The net is abuzz tonight as MobileMe users recieve more notices that MobileMe still isn’t what Apple had hoped it would be, so it’s offering 60 days more for free. Paul Thurrott has already played the part of the cynic and provided a rather insightful metaphor, but I’m going to come down on the positive [...]

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Vermyndax on September 29th, 2007

I’m reading a lot of backlash today regarding Apple’s announcement that an upcoming firmware update may turn the iPhone into an iBrick. Most of reactions can be filed under kneejerk, but since that will be the smallest word on the tag cloud (cough cough), let’s analyze this a little bit. Apple is preemptively warning consumers [...]

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