So you've got a new MacBook Air 2013 with the all-day battery and the superfast PCIe based SSD interface, and you want to clone over from your existing Mac that you used to love but now feels underwhelming. And you wanna take advantage of the fact that, unlike other any other operating system I can ...
Ivan Drucker: The Programmer
Ivan Drucker was interviewed at the annual Apple II convention, KansasFest, on being an Apple II programmer. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uro6QNm99mg This is one of a series of interviews conducted with KansasFest attendees; see the rest at the official KansasFest website. Transcript of the ...
Sync photos to an iPhone from different copies of iTunes
Our colleague, the wonderfully talented architectural photographer Connie Zhou, came up with a great method of getting around an iPhone or iPad's desire to marry itself to a single copy of iTunes for the purpose of syncing photos. If you don't know what I'm talking about: after you've synced some ...
Feedly for RSS Feeds: An Easier Way to Read Blogs
If you were a Google Reader user, then you know the pain of trying to find a new RSS feed reader since Google discontinued their Reader earlier this summer. For those of you unfamiliar with RSS -- it is a way of being able to easily read all your favorite blogs in one place, instead of having to go ...
So I met Woz
I just returned from KansasFest, a yearly Apple II convention in Kansas City, MO -- if you can believe such a thing exists -- and guess who showed up as a surprise guest: Steve Wozniak, inventor of the Apple II, the computer that shaped pretty much my whole life (and everyone else's, by popularizing ...
Streaming movies: Where do you find them?
On-demand streaming video is where everything's headed, but what's available where? Not all services have the same titles, and there are services out there you probably haven't even heard of. Many of these offer a la carte digital rentals and/or purchases, or all you can eat for a monthly fee, and ...