Jon’s Network

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. [...]

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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 [...]

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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 slogan “Designed by [...]

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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 [...]

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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. [...]

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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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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Apple makes features more usable. Simple idea, but the results are magical.

I had a conversation with some sales reps at the Helio kiosk Friday night.

I asked them which phone competes with the iPhone. This question put them on the defensive, and they proceeded to question and antagonize me about the iPhone instead of selling [...]

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