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iLooneyTunes

iLooneyTunes is a derogatory, but humorous name for iTunes. I’ve found iTunes to be one of the most unstable, flea-infested apps you publish. I’m sorry, but it’s true. You’ll notice I haven’t posted anything on this blog for months. Most of my Apple-related comments have been confined to the terse 140 characters of Twitter, and [...]

Apple won’t listen until the customers are gone

Are all these developer complaints about the iPhone app store having any affect on Apple, or do they just irritate everyone? Developers know by now what Apple is like. How about the developers stop whining and leave? That’s the only thing Apple will listen to. Geez, this app store fiasco has been going on since [...]

Sheppard’s Law

“Quality is inversely proportional to complexity multiplied by time.” 1 Q = ----- C * t As Complexity increases, Quality decreases. As time moves forward quality still decreases even if complexity remains the same. First postulated in 1997, I’m sad to say that nothing has changed. For computers, year after year, the hardware and software [...]

Snow Leopard observations

Here are my observations after using Snow Leopard for a while: Better: It does seem faster in areas such as networking. But that may be because I was having so much trouble with Leopard networking, that anything is better. Bug: There’s a bug in Mail where Smart Mailboxes always sort by Subject. I can change [...]

Snow Leopard installation

The following is my chronicle of the Snow Leopard installation on my primary computer, an early 2008 MacBook. Anyone reading this blog knows that I have a lot of problems with Leopard, so I will do lots of backups first. I emit an aura that is deadly for computers and software so I just know [...]

Riding the Skunk

My daughter made a stuffed skunk for me one Christmas several years ago as she thought it would be funny to keep it under my monitor to remind me of how stinky computers were. I use Apple computers. The skunk remained under my Dell monitor for years (it’s a Dell because your monitors were, and [...]

Going back into the closet

I’ve used your products primarily since March 1, 1984 when I bought my first original Macintosh and ImageWriter printer. I was proud to be a Mac owner because it was so superior to the alternatives. In the subsequent years leading up to the present time I became a Mac bigot. Everything else was not only [...]

Culture of fear

I’ve been fortunate in my career to never have worked for tyrants. Sure, I’ve worked for some bozos, but never someone who got their kicks from intimidation. Or someone who yelled at me while spraying spittle in my face. Or someone who threatened to fire my sorry ass unless I did this or that by [...]

Free, free, free!

I see you’re offering a “free” iPod Touch if we buy a Mac for university. There are two things wrong with this ad, and no, one of them is not the ubiquitous asterisk and “Terms apply” gotcha. There’s no such thing as a free iPod Again, you’re proving you’re no different than most other retailers [...]

Beating up on Microsoft

It’s been reported that Microsoft received a call from someone at Apple telling them that the laptop hunter ads were misleading. Another petty action. So you lowered your prices a teensy bit to make the MS ad just slightly incorrect and suddenly this is worth a call to Microsoft? Good grief, this is a rounding [...]