Year end tab sweep 2012 edition
Here are some things I think are well worth reading (also, I’m starting the year fresh with nothing in my tabs :P) Wired has a great interview by Steven Levy on Tim O’Reilly’s Key to Creating the Next...
View ArticleUpgrading to OS X 10.8 and a new MacBook Air
Yesterday I unboxed my new MacBook Air 13″ (full-spec) laptop. I used a USB3 disk to backup via Time Machine the old laptop (which maxed out at USB2), and then did a restore using USB3 last night and...
View ArticleSome Apple upgrades that I’m not enjoying
10.8.5 has been largely a disaster in terms of usability. The FaceTime camera basically doesn’t work with apps that aren’t Apple-released on my MacBook Air. This means Google Hangouts, Skype video, all...
View ArticleApple revises prices upwards in Malaysia due to falling ringgit
New iMac’s have been announced by Apple. 21.5″ models cost RM400 more. 27″ models cost RM500 more. These are the base models suggested retail prices. In the Singapore and the USA, prices have remained...
View ArticleiTunes ate my podcasts
iTunes is fixed now (11.1.3) but somewhere in-between it broke and deleted all of my podcast downloads as well as the subscriptions. It has been over four months that I’ve gone without listening to...
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On device ecosystems
I was just listening This week in google #236, and they were talking about device ecosystems. The topic of smartwatches came up obviously. The first Samsung Galaxy Gear was apparently not a good seller...
View ArticleApple laptops not made for enterprise use
Like my recent upgrade to 10.8, I was forced to upgrade to 10.9 because my 13” MacBook Air succumbed to an odd logic board error involving a heat sensor going kaput. Turns out that kernel_task would go...
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Apple Store Malaysia – accepts AMEX now
Where possible, the only card I use is my American Express charge card. Of course, recently, Maybank has upped the ante with an Amex card that provides TreatsPoints (and if you’re after air miles, they...
View ArticleSwitching costs
When I was a desktop Linux user, I’d just sync /etc and /home to a freshly installed Linux box. When I became a desktop Mac user, I would just rely on Migration Assistant. With iOS, the trick is to...
View ArticleHello Applebot
Saw lots of this in the access logs: 17.142.151.101 - - [08/May/2015:10:37:27 -0700] "GET /blog/archives/2015/02/03/here-and-defending-your-trademarks HTTP/1.1" 200 12324 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh;...
View ArticleLearnings from Swift becoming opensource
Swift is now opensource, and it’s interesting to see Craig Federighi talk about it. This is Apple doing right, considering FaceTime is long overdue to being an open standard. People are nitpicking on...
View ArticleShorter cables
I travel a lot and I one of the things I constantly do is refine what goes into my backpack (and luggage). For this trip, I decided to add a refinement — reduce cable clutter. Apple gives you 1m USB to...
View ArticleSpotify and the App Store
Via Recode, Spotify says Apple won’t approve a new version of its app because it doesn’t want competition for Apple Music. Why is this surprising to Spotify? Amazon has a Kindle app on the App Store...
View ArticleApple’s problem – lacking roadmaps
I’ve been an Apple Mac user for a very long time. I didn’t buy the first iPhone (still believing in Nokia and loving the idea of the open Android, and the second phone was the BlackBerry) personally...
View Articlecom.apple.bird getting large?
I was wondering why my disk space was reducing pretty quickly on my Mac, and it turns out my ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.bird/ directory was 92GB in size! Inspecting some of the larger files, I notice...
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Region restrictions in a globalised world
I think we can all agree that globalisation has won, and we live in a flat world. However when it comes to consuming media, we still live in a world of regional restrictions. Rights are not issued...
View ArticleCleaning up the Mac, backup edition
A while back, I realised that com.apple.bird was getting too large and it was easy to purge it. I had to do this again. The app I use to see where my space is going is OmniDiskSweeper. Its free, and I...
View ArticleMigrating to new iPhones
When we do upgrades, we have to do them family wide which is four devices at any given time. This time we all settled on the iPhone 7 in varying colours. Naturally, I got the jet black variant. I also...
View ArticleUpgrade notes on macOS Sierra
I’m notorious for not updating OS X (macOS) too quickly, preferring to wait months on end for Apple to iron out bugs. I just hope that in 2017 they don’t make a major release and something sensible,...
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The Touch Bar can wow you over!
In the tech space, sometimes people can be notorious for bemoaning new technology. Case in point? The Touch Bar on the new retina MacBook Pro’s. I’ve been using a 15″ retina MacBook Pro with Touch Bar...
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