Category Apple

Running Sparklines

I got the little Nike+ pedometer for my iPod last year to track my running progress. Yeah, that’s right its was purely for exercise sake…yeah. Yes, its a gadget. I like gadgets. And this one is very cool. If you…

Weighing Vista

Having now discovered how easy it is to simply hit the back key on your keyboard and simply loose the longest blog entry that you have ever made…I start to rewrite this post. I am sure, you, the reader, will…

Do Ten Years Make a Difference?

It is interesting to consider the vastly different (yet similarly targeted) Apple eMate of 1997 and the OLPC pof 2007. Floating about the internet currently is a really cool screen capture of the ‘Sugar’ interface used by the One Laptop…

Has Productivity Software Improved?

This certainly seems like an appropriate place for an historian to be 😉 Ahh, but so much more, OldVersion is a website that is collecting links to older version of mainstream software applications under the principle that olde ris not…

Calibrate Your Nike+

So in my quest to push the envelope and also save the world 😉 I ran the United Way 5K at Mac today. It is my second year running. Last year I ran it after having run the Terry Fox…

the Pod Phenomenon Dissected

The iPod remains a pervasive example of a viral epidemic adoption. When did it hit the tipping point? I’ve still got my 1G pod although the battery gave up the ghost a long time ago. It certainly wasn’t in 2001.…