Judging by my column the past couple of days you’d think that I didn’t like iChat AV or something. Au contraire! I only point out it’s deficiencies because I think that video conferencing is nothing short of revolutionary and I want Apple to invest more R&D into iChat so that more people will start using […]
The opinion that Apple’s binary-only kernel for Intel involves a huge coverup, or misleading advertising on Apple’s part, or is otherwise a broken promise on the level of massive fraud, has been thoroughly beaten into the ground by certain political advocates, who scour the web like an army of GNU-bots, looking for venues to unleash their political screed on open source as a political philosophy.
Vincent Ferrari decided to cancel his AOL account. Little did he know how hard it was going to be. Click through to hear the audio recording of his phone call to AOL’s cancellation (a.k.a. “retention”) department. I had an AOL account years ago. I kept it around because many of the suits in my office […]
Jeremy Kusnetz has installed a Mac mini in his Toyota Prius and even hacked the touch screen to work with Front Row. Very impressive, my man! The quest to make Mac Prius. The first thing I needed was video in. There are a number of options here, I decided to go with the CAN-view for […]
Mac programmer Amit Singh, who in February figured out how to access and manipulate the motion sensor in Apple’s laptops, has published an explanation of the ambient light sensor also found in the company’s latest portables. The ambient light sensor detects the amount of light in a room and brightens the laptop’s keyboard as needed. […]