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The iPod nano: So perfectly tiny

In Apple, Design, Geek, iPod on 8 September 2005 with Comments Off

On the Cartoon Network there’s a brilliant show called Harvey Birdman that recycles old Hanna-Barbera characters into a modern courtroom setting. One of the wilder side characters is Reducto, a little green man with a passion for all things small (voiced by none other than Daily Show’s Stephen Colbert). Reducto is known for obsessing over [...]

Love in the year 2005

In Apple, Geek, Photos, iPod on 8 September 2005 with Comments Off

His and Hers iPod nanos. (Mine’s the black one, natch.)

Upgrade Madness

In Apple, Blogging, Geek, Weblogs on 3 May 2005 with Comments Off

So this weekend I upgraded all the Macs in the house to Tiger and I upgraded Ephemera to Movable Type 3. It feels like my geek life has all new clothes. Curious to read what yet another geek thinks of ‘em? Read on.

Bring on the reality distortion field!

In Apple, Geek on 11 January 2005 with Comments Off

Today’s the day to watch the Apple madness going on in San Francisco. It’s Macworld! I suggest following the fun with this Technorati search for “Macworld”. It’s sure to get interesting in the afternoon when everyone’s blogging the Stevenote and all his one-more-things. Personally, my money’s on the smaller-than-mini iPod, and I’m cautiously optimistic about [...]

Buy my Mac

In Apple, For Sale on 22 May 2004 with Comments Off

After two years of faithful service, I’m selling my beloved Apple Power Macintosh G4 because I got a new computer. It works perfectly, runs all the latest software, and it’s got a ton of RAM and hard drive storage space, so it’s a great computer for sound editing, image processing, producing DVDs, or just about [...]

Out of Tune

In Apple, Design, Geek on 28 April 2004 with Comments Off

I’m a randomizer. Back when my music came on small reflective circles, my favorite thing to do was load up the 5-disc changer with CDs from totally disparate genres and hit the shuffle button. Hours of tunes, bouncing between styles.
Now, admittedly, this is not everyone’s cup of tea. I’m sure there are many people [...]

Let the iPod backlash begin!

In Apple, iPod on 5 February 2004 with Comments Off

With the iPod love-fest that’s been afoot in the mainstream media for the last year, the backlash was inevitable. It’s just too bad it’s taken root in a paper I usually respect.
Bleeding-heart Bay Area rag, The San Francisco Bay Guardian, has a cover story this week on our beloved iPod: What-why-where Pod. The story is [...]

Fray CDs in Apple Store

In Apple, Fray, Geek on 28 January 2004 with Comments Off

Attention all you iTunes users! The two original Fray CDs (Fray Day 5 and Fray Cafe 3) are both now available in the Apple iTunes Music Store! Click these if you’re among the iTunes-addled: Fray Day 5 and Fray Cafe 3. Buy and enjoy! Just don’t tell Apple you can listen to all that and [...]

Apple’s Revisionist History

In Apple, Geek, iPod on 6 January 2004 with Comments Off

Apple showed its classic 1984 Macintosh ad today at MacWorld San Francisco, but with a twist: they digitally grafted an iPod on to the runner. The result is strangely disturbing, both because they’re revising their own history, and also because, well, isn’t infiltrating a militaristic compound with a huge mallet while listening to music kinda [...]

Apple and Sony: Get a room!

In Apple, Geek on 12 November 2003 with Comments Off

I wish Apple and Sony would quit this mating dance and just get a room already. Both companies are all about the digital lifestyle devices now. Sony wishes it had done the iPod, and Apple wishes it had half of Sony’s power.
Today Sony announced the beautiful PCV-P101, an all-in-one computer so beautiful, I thought [...]