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  • Firefox Better than Safari on MobileMe
  • MobileMe Wiped My Contacts
  • Apple’s iTunes U for K-12 Schools
  • Too Stupid to Use Spaces
  • Anti-trust hurts consumers
  • Apple’s clandestine Safari install – we saw it coming
  • Using Safari Better
  • Macs Do Need to Worry about Viruses
  • My Preciousssss iPhone
  • Why Apple Released Safari on Windows
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    Firefox Better than Safari on MobileMe

    August 29th, 2008 · No Comments

    A cursory web search will show you many end users that perceive better performance using Firefox for MobileMe hosted websites instead of Apple’s own Safari browser. My wife uses iWeb to maintain the family website. A couple of weeks ago, the comments stopped working. I figured it was just another MobileMe problem and planned on [...]

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    Tags: Apple · Firefox · MobileMe · Safari

    MobileMe Wiped My Contacts

    July 30th, 2008 · 1 Comment

    This afternoon on my MacBook Pro, Mail and Safari were acting screwy. Safari would give me a beach ball when I tried to fill out a form on Amazon and Mail would give me a beach ball when it did an address look up when I typed someone’s name in the To: field. I tried [...]

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    Tags: Apple · Mac · iPhone

    Apple’s iTunes U for K-12 Schools

    July 2nd, 2008 · 1 Comment

    Apple just launched K-12 on iTunes U(opens iTunes) that allows schools to use iTunes as a platform to distribute educational content. Not quite sure why a school would find this easier than just posting the stuff on the web, but I do know Apple would love to get all those students spending even more time [...]

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    Tags: Apple · K12

    Too Stupid to Use Spaces

    June 2nd, 2008 · No Comments

    Fortune Small Business published this drivel in response to a serious question: Is it time to consider moving your small business to Macs? Their answer: it makes sense for maybe 20 companies out of 100, up from just 5 a few years back. Here are the reasons Macs won’t work for your small business: The [...]

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    Tags: Apple · Mac · Productivity · Vista

    Anti-trust hurts consumers

    April 13th, 2008 · 2 Comments

    Since Apple has been doing a great job lately at meeting consumer demands, regulators will start harassing them for the crime of giving consumers what they want. Apple’s competition will be happy to encourage them. The eMusic founder thinks the rumored Apple music subscription model won’t pass the anti-trust test in the EU if they [...]

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    Tags: Apple · Economics

    Apple’s clandestine Safari install – we saw it coming

    March 24th, 2008 · No Comments

    John Lilly, Mozilla CEO, complained about the clandestine Safari 3.1 install for Windows users. I think most users with half a brain will know if they have Safari or not and if they don’t want it, they can deselect the check box. Whatever your opinion, I think that is beside the point really. I think [...]

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    Tags: Apple · Firefox · Mac · Safari

    Using Safari Better

    March 21st, 2008 · No Comments

    Daniel points out three Safari features that most people never use: Snapback URL path navigation Web inspector (gives you Firebug funtionality) Two of these are completely new to me. I use Safari 90% of the time anyway because of the sleek, snappy feel. This just makes it better.

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    Tags: Apple · Safari

    Macs Do Need to Worry about Viruses

    August 15th, 2007 · 5 Comments

    I spoke to a network admin recently that runs a Mac network for a small architecture firm. Over the years, they have accumulated a good collection of Windows macro viruses in docs stored on his network. Since they weren’t affected by these viruses, they never bothered to clean them up. It is coming home to [...]

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    Tags: Anti-Virus · Apple · Mac

    My Preciousssss iPhone

    July 16th, 2007 · 4 Comments

    It’s been almost 3 weeks since I bought the iPhone. To say I like it is an understatement. I have a visceral attachment to it. I’ll admit it. I’m like Gollum and the Ring. The iPhone may not have all the features under the sun, but the features it does have are transparent, integrated and [...]

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    Tags: Apple · Personal Technology · iPhone

    Why Apple Released Safari on Windows

    June 21st, 2007 · 2 Comments

    In case you haven’t heard, you can run Apple’s Safari browser on Windows. Why would you want to? Well, according to Apple, it is faster among other things. I would have to agree. This is the reason I use Safari as my primary browser, although I still use Firefox daily for some of the add-on [...]

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    Tags: Apple · Marketing