In his column for the Wall Street Journal, Walt Mossberg picks the Microsoft Mouse over the Apple Mighty Mouse. Microsoft’s new model is cordless, like most modern, premium mice. Apple’s Mighty Mouse is tethered to the computer with a cord, like most low-end models. As with all of Apple’s mice in recent years, the Mighty […]
Month: August 2005
I thought I recognized something while reading Tom’s Top 5 in (the print edition of) Cargo magazine. In it Tom lists the familiar-looking 3-Pack Microfiber Sleeves for 20/30 GB iPod from Kensington which look surprisingly like the cool Optex iPod Sleevz from RadTech.us (which were awarded a PowerPick in 2004). No one’s talking’ about whether […]
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Mighty Mouse Squeaks Quietly
The Mighty Mouse is a really neat piece of technology with touch sensitive left/right buttons and the groovey scroll ball. Apple even put a speaker in it to give us feedback. The problem is that I must demand complete silence to hear the thing! Does anyone else feel the volume level of the Mighty Mouse […]
The SWIPE Toolkit is a collection of web-based tools that sheds light on personal data collection and usage practices in the United States. The tools demonstrate the value of personal information on the open market and enable people to access information encoded on a driver’s license or stored in some of the many commercial data […]
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Where did Apple go Wrong?
With the success of the iPod and iTunes, and the growing support for Mac OS X in the software industry – one still has the proverbial question. Where did Apple go wrong?