There are guided instructions on how to install OSX onto the current crop of netbooks. It breaks my heart because the PowerBook Duo line of notebooks actually defined the executive sub-notebook (they also defined the PDA/PIM with the Newton and dropped that ball, too), Why Apple must do a Netbook no...

It’s incredibly hard to interpret Steve Jobs’s letter about his health, sent to all Apple employees, as anything but troubling: Team, I am sure all of you saw my letter last week sharing something very personal with the Apple community. Unfortunately, the curiosity over my personal healt...

Speculation hasn’t stopped since Steve Jobs begrudgingly penned his letter to the Apple community on the issue of his weight loss.  Despite his dismissive tone – which is characteristic of a healthy Jobs, not one staring his own mortality in the eye – I think Jobs did what he needed to do...

BGR: RIM’s Q3 results beat expectations: Just after the North American markets closed this Thursday, RIM announced its Q3 earnings. While many analysts believed that RIM would have a hard time meeting its adjusted earnings forcast, RIM actually exceeded them, but just barely. In this day and a...

Ever since writing my piece on why the BlackBerry Storm is a fairly lousy smartphone — perhaps, in fact, a massive mistake — I’ve been deluged by email asking why I switched back to a BlackBerry when I had an iPhone. Here’s my answer. I’m a BlackBerry guy and have been ...

Look, I’ll just cut to the chase, because sites like Boy Genius Report, Engadget and Gizmodo have all the details covered in gory detail. Bottom line: the BlackBerry Storm isn’t all that great.  And this is coming from someone who had a bunch of BlackBerries, moved to the iPhone, and then (...

This year’s WWDC feels like Apple’s waking up from the coma that was last year to finally kick ass and take names and not the other way around. When you think about it, the only thing they got right was the iphone and ipod touch and those were sold high on promise and potential. Case in ...

This morning we had a reader write into the Internet Storm Center telling us that the intro music and the outro music was there but there was no vocal track on the podcast. Turns out what happened was, when I copied and pasted the vocals from the track that I recorded the podcast on into the templat...

A while back people sold music with DRM. Don’t ask. It turns out that it is terribly easy to find these files: mdfind kMDItemContentType == com.apple.protected-mpeg-4-audio in a terminal window will list all purchased music. Apple did with Spotlight what Microsoft was known for in the 90s: Rel...

We got our first family computer last fall, a 24″ Apple iMac. It had been running like a champ until a strange hardware problem popped up a few weeks ago. It didn’t boot properly a few times, and when I investigated further I found that the system was reporting that the hard drive was st...