Category Archives: Apple

iPhone 4S Setup, a post Steve Apple

By zacharyc | Published: October 27, 2011

I’m sad to say that the whole process of upgrading to an iPhone 4S (or 4 Steve as some crazy analysts have been calling it), has been more difficult than I would have expected. I’ll admit that I didn’t take the most conventional route to set this phone up, but my experience has not been [...]

Posted in Apple | Leave a comment

Sleeping your Mac with a Microsoft Ergo 4000 Keyboard

By zacharyc | Published: October 25, 2010

One of my friends, who will remain nameless for the purpose of this discussion, convinced me start playing around with a Microsoft Natural Ergo Keyboard 4000. I got one at work, then I bought one for the home and I’ve been pretty happy with it. There are just a couple of things missing from my [...]

Also posted in Programming, Stuff | Leave a comment

OmniFocus vs. Things (continued)

By zacharyc | Published: June 2, 2010

A while ago I wrote a post about my switch from OmniFocus from Omnigroup to Things by Cultured Code. Both do pretty much the same thing: allow you to make lists of tasks so you can keep track of what you need to get done. Each has their own feature sets. I originally bought OmniFocus, [...]

Posted in Apple | Tagged , | Leave a comment

Best Payment Form I’ve Seen

By zacharyc | Published: March 9, 2010

I purchased the MacHeist bundle today. If you’re not familiar with it, its a collection of Mac Apps that this group puts together and sells rediculously cheap. I spent 20 bucks, only for one app that I really wanted (Flow by Extend Mac). Regardless, this post is not about that bundle. It’s about my checkout [...]

Also posted in Usability | Tagged | Leave a comment

Percentage of Mac Use by University of Virginia Students

By zacharyc | Published: June 10, 2009

Daring Fireball has a link to the a study of the computer statistics for the student body of the University of Virginia. You can find the article here. The most interesting chart for me is the last one about the number of Macintosh users versus Windows users. The table is interesting, but I would also [...]

Posted in Apple | Leave a comment

Apple’s iLife is TOO Good

By zacharyc | Published: March 3, 2009

In an amazing post on Daring Fireball John Gruber quotes the technology directory for a public school in Massachusetts: However, even iLife has its drawbacks in an educational setting. It simply hands so much to the students that they struggle with software (whether Windows, Linux, or even pro-level software on the Mac) that isn’t so [...]

Also posted in Technology, Usability | Leave a comment

Why I like the iPhone App Store Model

By zacharyc | Published: October 23, 2008

Much of the popular media these days is dubbing the iPhone App store and Apple’s process as: Unreliable Close Minded Capricious Rejection Filled After thinking about this for a couple of days, I think that the people writing these claims have some valid points, but I’m actually really in favor of the model Apple has [...]

Also posted in Technology | Leave a comment

Calling People from a Text Message on the iPhone

By zacharyc | Published: October 7, 2008

Have you ever been using your iPhone, in the middle of sending a text message to a friend when you realize it would just be easier to call them and talk it out? With the current interface you have to leave the SMS application, navigate to your contacts using either Phone or Contacts, find the [...]

Also posted in Usability | Tagged | 2 Comments

How long does a Keyboard last?

By zacharyc | Published: September 20, 2008

I have an older generation Apple Keyboard (this one is german, mine is standard US, but the design is the same and I don’t feel like taking a picture). The problem is, my spacebar key is starting to crap out on me (or I’m losing thumb strength and can no longer hit it as hard). [...]

Also posted in Technology | Leave a comment

Bloomberg Releases Jobs’ Obituary

By zacharyc | Published: August 28, 2008

Steve Jobs’ obituary was mistakenly released by Bloomberg News today. Bloomberg is a company that strives not to take a position on the market, but in this case, they actually caused the stock to take a sharp dip. They have since retracted the article and stated that they have no non-public information on the health [...]

Posted in Apple | Leave a comment