October 19, 2008 – 12:07 pm
From Greenmonk: The Blog - Cherish The AIR? Just because you can doesn’t mean you should:
…the core idea that should be upheld by companies like Apple should be about making things better and less often. Making things that will be able to evolve, be upgraded, be adaptable, hackable and more fun to use [...]
Update (15 Mar 2007): So, long rant, but I may have found my problem - I had set podcasts in iTunes to sync only “unplayed episodes” to the iPod, which also seems to imply that they never sync / record data about having been played. Or ratings from the iPod, for that matter. [...]
January 12, 2007 – 11:01 am
“We define everything that is on the phone,” he said. “You don’t want your phone to be like a PC. The last thing you want is to have loaded three apps on your phone and then you go to make a call and it doesn’t work anymore. These are more like iPods than they are [...]
November 17, 2006 – 1:19 pm
Something very cool I just noticed on my MacBook Pro: There’s separate volume settings for headphones versus built-in speakers. I had the sound muted for external speakers last night. But, when I plugged my headphones in at work this morning, the volume jumped back to exactly where I’d left it yesterday. [...]
October 25, 2005 – 1:28 pm
Man, color me peeved: The girl just got me a new LCD-equipped iTrip for my 4G iPod 20GB, and what happens? I fumble it from chest level, from which it fell to land flat on its back on a marble floor. No obvious external or cosmetic damage, but I’m hearing an old [...]
October 6, 2005 – 6:54 am
Grr. Last night, My PowerBook suddenly started making the oscillating, growling noise of a fan with built up crud rattling against the blades. I’d thought it was the hard drive at first, knowing my luck, but I narrowed down the sound to the fans in the back and could make the sound go [...]
October 27, 2004 – 5:18 pm
What occurred to me as I rounded the last stretch of I-75 into Detroit this morning is that this metadata and these Smart Playlists on shuffle amount to an attempt to tickle myself.
