Giving up for now on Google Two Factor Auth
I love the idea of two factor auth, and I think Google has generally done a good job on it, they have certainly tried to make it easy to use . But the collision of iOS/OSX and Google TFA is […]
installed both ios7 and osx mavericks last night
ios7 first impressions: the mail app i think i will like, seems a little easier to dispose of messages, and viewing messages is a lot cleaner i never used game center, mostly because i don’t care about the feature, but […]
Today’s reasons why I want to throw Win8 in the trash
Everyone has written about forcing the stupid touchscreen down our throats, that annoys the heck out of me too. But maybe I can get used to it. But moving beyond that, I just want to use a damn printer. There […]
My Macbook Pro refused to boot this morning…
…the harddisk was full and that caused all kinds of hell to break loose. But really it was a sign — “Macbook Pro with Retina Display”:http://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/ — ordered. J is laughing at me — $200 for the extra 8G of […]
When you are 10x behind in mobile apps, your tools probably ought to be 10x better
As part of “my Windows Phone trial”:http://theludwigs.com/2012/04/switching-to-the-nokia-lumia-900-for-a-while/, I am going to dig into the developer tools. I’ve written a little throwaway iOS app, and i’ve written one with “Parse”:https://parse.com/ (super easy!). So I’d like to understand the experience of writing […]
To heck with AppleTV, give me an Apple Microwave
29 buttons on the front panel and almost none of them do what I want. The designers have optimized for packaged convenience foods and I never eat those, but cooking those is the default on the damn thing. All I […]
Friday afternoon musing about TV — VCOs, Airplay, Cameras
Gearing up for lots of basketball watching over the next month, OSU is on tonight, Go Bucks, humiliate the Boilermakers. I know he is long retired but that combover that Gene Keady sported for years still annoys me and Purdue […]
Why do they call it AppleTV? Where’s the TV part?
I mean, you can’t really watch TV on it. Live sports like NFL football or NCAA football or all the upcoming NCAA basketball tournament action? No. That’s at least 50% of the reason we have TV sets and cable service […]
MSFT’s biggest miss — another facet of MSFT’s stagnation
“Microsoft’s biggest miss”:http://minimalmac.com/post/17758177061/microsofts-biggest-miss is a nice discussion of another issue for the company, the slippage in relevance of Office. I can’t speak to the whole market, but my document composition has moved almost entirely to vehicles like Evernote, Dropbox-hosted apps, […]
MSFT and the decline of the PC hardware ecosystem
In the late 80s, IBM attempted to reassert control over the PC hardware platform with the introduction of the PS/2 and its proprietary “MicroChannel”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro_Channel_architecture architecture. The cloners fought back, customers voted with their feet, the PS/2 initiative failed, and the […]
An alternative view on Apple and TVs
Lots of rumours this week about an upcoming Apple TV reintroduction. The partnering with major cable players makes sense to me, that is just the iPhone playbook all over again — pick off one carrier, create a great experience with […]
The day you stop learning is the day you start dying
My grandfather once told me “The day you stop learning is the day you start dying.” I’ve had a lifelong commitment to education and I am still learning every day. There is so much going on in education, the choices […]
Kind of sad that Apple took “bounce” out of lion mail
I’m not the only one — “Apple forum discussion on bounce”:https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3201744?start=0&tstart=0. OK I realize it wasn’t actually that effective in stopping unwanted email, but I enjoyed using it as a kind of “f%^* you” message to certain senders. I got […]
Photostream is cute, but what I really want is Aperture/iPhoto in the cloud
So “I don’t really get iCloud storage yet”:http://theludwigs.com/2011/10/im-struggling-to-understand-why-i-would-ever-use-icloud-storage/, and “Photostream doesn’t really accomodate all my DSLR pictures well”:http://theludwigs.com/2011/10/icloud-photostream-and-dslrs-dont-seem-to-be-a-great-fit/. So rather than just whine about what I don’t have, what do I really want? First — I have a 203G (gigabyte) […]
Love iOS5 keyboard shortcuts … But why aren’t they iCloud enabled?
Settings…general…keyboard…shortcuts. Love these, will save me infinite amount of typing. Completing web forms, email, everywhere. But why oh why aren’t these iCloud enabled? I want the same exact shortcuts on my iPad, iPhone, and Mac. And I don’t want to […]
I’m struggling to understand why I would ever use iCloud storage.
I’m struggling to understand why I would ever use iCloud storage. After a couple days of tinkering, I have two sets of data in iCloud — device backups, and Pages/Keynote docs. * I really don’t get the value of device […]
My overall reaction to iOS5? Confusion.
OK like the rest of the working world I spent hours yesterday trying to upgrade my iPhone4 and iPad2 to iOS5. About a dozen retries for the phone, maybe half that for the iPad, and I finally got there. Not […]
Apple is the new Honda
Nice writeup of “Apple’s manufacturing/supply advantage vs the PC OEMs”:http://daringfireball.net/2011/09/new_apple_advantage. Reminds me very much of the way Honda and Toyota crushed the American car manufacturers in the 70’s and 80’s — GM in particular had overly complex product lines, cars […]
Like many others, Steve Jobs has had a profound effect on my life
By the time I was a junior at Ohio State, I knew that a) i was fascinated with personal computers, and that b) despite my electrical engineering education, I did not actually want to be an engineer. So I was […]
Business Models and Evil
Some interesting commentary on “Google’s business model by Gruber”:http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/08/23/swartz-google-evil — a total Apple fan, doesn’t view ads as inherently evil, but says you need to be very respectful of your users. And referring to “an original article by Aaron Swartz”:http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/googevil […]
