1. “Only Apple” has been Tim Cook’s closing mantra for the last few Apple keynotes. Here’s what he said at the end of last week’s WWDC keynote : You’ve seen how our operating systems, devices, and ser

Beats The commentary leading up to WWDC this year has been largely dominated by Apple’s $3 billion acquisition of Beats Electronics and Beats Music. I didn’t get it at first , that’s for sure. But the

A few weeks before the iPhone 5 was even announced, before all the rumours, part leaks, before all of that, I wondered what I was going to do with my old iPhone 4. See, I’m on the “good” iPhone cycle:

W e were barely past MacArthur when I felt it beginning to take hold. It was a big Friday for me, taking 40 students on a walking field trip to our local bookstore, then a tour of the Community Center and, if there was enough time, a little sit-under-a-tree-and-read time for the students in the…

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There is a certain kind of people who will always disregard what you have to say about a specific topic because of their presupposed opinion of you based on the topic at hand. In the world of tech that I joyfully observe and care about, one of the most tossed around and misused labels is the f-word:…

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----Hash: SHA1On Apr 18, 2014, at 5:35 PM, Jerry Leichter wrote:> Be aware that this is a strongly pro-Apple site, and that comes through plainly

A popular explanation Dick Grune dick@dickgrune.com [ Metanote: This explanation arose out of a lunch-time discussion with acolleague who claimed a light saber could not exist since the light beam ite

March 2, 2014 Windows 8 and the Microsoft Surface Right now, people are burying Windows 8. Even people you'd normally expect to be on Microsoft's side are unhappy with it. Me, though? I kind of like i

I have never let the fact that I do not live in New York City keep me from pursuing my dreams, and I am certainly not going to let it stop me from writing a Why I Am Leaving New York essay today. New York, I must take my leave of you, you withered bitch-hearted city, you poison-titted fuckmother,…

This is a motherfucking website. And it's fucking perfect. Seriously, what the fuck else do you want? You probably build websites and think your shit is special. You think your 13 megabyte parallax-at

When Apple released the iPad Mini a year ago, I wrote that the Mini wasn’t just a secondary option to the main iPad, but it is the iPad. What I meant is that the Mini fulfilled much of the original iP