Here is Ozymandias'—Steve Jobs alter ego—computer: A Macintosh SE/30. All in black, because in Nixon's 1985, Macs are black. It is one of the many Apple references Watchmen. In the......

I teach college classes on innovation, as well as speak regularly on the topic.  And I am frequenty asked how to determine whether new products are sustaining innovations, or disruptive ones.  In 2008, the most common product I was asked about was the iPhone.  To me the answer was obvious.  As a...

Adobe recently released a slew of updates for the latest version of its Creative Suite, i.e. the CS4 applications. Given Adobe’s recent history with software installers and software updaters, I bet you will not be surprised to hear that the user experience with the CS4 updates is as atrocious ...

  Netflix will offer a streaming-only service, but apparently it still won't be available to Mac users. [Wired] Former Hugh Hefner flame and original Girl Next Door Holly Madison has split from Criss Angel after nearly four months. [Yahoo!] It looks like there's some not-so-hot lesbian ...

I wanted to know how to make a screencast, so I decided to try to make one on a topic that many people have been asking me about recently: how to type in Lithuanian on their fancy new Apple computers: Enabling Lithuanian (or other Euro) typing on the Mac from Moacir P. de Sá Pereira on Vimeo. There...

Hawkscope è un piccolo software che permette di accedere a tutti i files presenti sull’hard disk tramite una serie di menu e sottomenu visualizzabili dal menu di avvio. L’utility piazza una icona nell’area di notifica: cliccandoci si ha possibilità di navigare su tutto il disco (...

This morning my Mac decided to act like a Windows box - a bunch of applications froze up (Mail, iPhoto, iTunes) - and the only way to unzombie them was a reboot. And that required a hard power off, because shutdown wasn't able to kill them, either. Strange. I like the Mac a lot, and it's a huge, hug...

There's a guy named Scott Moulton who runs a drive recovery and forensics business. He gives talks about hard drive recovery and posts them on YouTube. They're fascinating and definitely worth watching. But in his latest one (10 Things About Hard Drives 4/6) he confuses two events in the history of ...

A happy ending to the MacBook saga. I ended up getting in touch with Jay from Tekserve, who was sympathetic to my plight and offered their help in getting the screws out. I dropped by and within ten minutes, they told me that they had extracted the screws, so I had them replace the top case while th...

To briefly recap, the trackpad on my black MacBook died a few weeks ago. It's a $60 part if you buy it on eBay, so I figured that I was in luck. But it turned out that during a warranty repair that Apple did 2½ years ago, they stripped several screws essential to getting the laptop apart. Today I v...