What happens whenever Apple releases financials with record revenue, record profit, and record unit sales? Most of the time, the stock drops like a rock. Here’s the story of two wealthy men, one of whom knows something about … Continue Reading »
Archives for January 2014
Samsung: Public Shaming And Fines Won’t Hurt Us (how about a boycott?)
It may not be common knowledge that Samsung is a company convicted of many crimes, but the image of Apple’s main competitor is crystal clear. Instead of winning the sales race against Apple by making better products, Samsung … Continue Reading »
Free: Control Your Mac’s Fans
With apologies to Richard Boone (I’m a cowboy movie and TV show fan), here’s my personal Mac motto. Have MacBook Pro, Must Travel. That means that much of my day is spent hunkering over a MacBook keyboard, squinting … Continue Reading »
Make Your Mac’s Dock Do Tricks
The folks at Mac360 are on a mission to find Mac apps, tools, utilities that add more functionality and improve our Mac life. We’ve been doing this for about 10 years. One of our favorite Mac add ons … Continue Reading »
The Genius Of Steve Jobs And Why Many Think Apple Is Doomed
Through the years I’ve read every book and article I could find on Steve Jobs. I’ve watch days of videos, keynotes, and interviews. That Steve Jobs was a product marketing genius should be obvious based on Apple’s current … Continue Reading »
Why Are These Numbers Top Secret?
Every three months Apple releases financial results from the preceding quarter. Numbers. Macs, iPhones, iPads, revenue, profits, gross margins. Those kinds of numbers. Apple competes with a number of publicly traded technology companies which also release numbers, though … Continue Reading »
Revealed: How To Get A List Of File Names From A Folder Of Files
There was once a time, way back in the day, prior to the advent of OS X, back when the Mac OS was all gray and classic, you could print out a list of files from a folder. … Continue Reading »
The Professional Way To Use Your Mac’s Mouse (think ‘snap to’ and ‘tracking’)
My daily work brings me in contact with a growing number of what I’ll refer to as ‘professional’ Mac users; power users. These folks have the best of everything Mac; multiple displays, extra hard disks, SSDs, loads of … Continue Reading »
Why And How Apple’s iPhone And iPad Marketshare Is Dropping
Just in case you flew in overnight from Elbonia and missed the latest news, here’s a summary that might just catch your hair on fire. Apple reported record revenue, record profits, record iPhone and iPad unit sales, and … Continue Reading »
The Swiss Army Knife Of Cloud Storage Services Is Missing One Cloud
Many teachers and some students in the school where I work are using cloud services to store photos and files online. Why not? Most of them are free for limited file storage. The problem with cloud storage has … Continue Reading »
How The iPhone 5c Is Killing Apple
Apple sold a record number of iPhones and iPads in the holiday quarter, along with record revenue and profits, yet the stock took a bath. Why? The problem has to do with perception and expectations. Wall Street determined … Continue Reading »
The Aliens Among Us Are Into Drag And Drop To Convert Files On A Mac
Color me one of those red, white, and blue, bona fide, card-carrying Americans who believe in aliens. Yes, they’re walking among us, hidden in plain sight. Take my wife’s relatives. Please. The alien I’m referring to here, though, … Continue Reading »
Still Use iTunes To Play Music On Your Mac? Try Vox. It’s Free
A serious portion of my day is devoted to my Mac, banging away on the keyboard, listening to music. Most of the time I use iTunes because that’s where my music is stored. The problem with iTunes is … Continue Reading »
What Price Value? iMac vs. Mac Pro
2014 is my year for a new Mac. What’s on the list? This year, if I decide to give up my MacBook Air, I’ll choose from one of three new Mac models. The iMac has plenty of horsepower … Continue Reading »
Free: The Fast, Simple Way To Boot Into Windows From Your Mac
The school where I work has hundreds of Mac and Windows PCs. That means the Mac I use at work has the best of both worlds. OS X and Windows in a dual-boot configuration. Just how easy it … Continue Reading »
The Dock Shortcuts You Need On A Mac
The many tens of thousands of Mac apps, utilities, and tools tell us that OS X isn’t feature complete. It’s merely a framework for our workflow. That means some tools are completely unnecessary, we don’t need them because … Continue Reading »
Apple’s Big Numbers Fail
Apple released financials for Q1 2014 and the market went nuts. Again. I watched the Fox Business Channel and you would have thought President Obama was Apple’s CEO and running the company into the ground. What happened? Yet … Continue Reading »
The New Apple TV: Boom? Or, Bust?
One of the recent rumors that caught my eye was the 2014 Apple TV. No, not the Apple TV as in an Apple-branded television. What’s expected by many who follow Apple is an update to the Apple TV … Continue Reading »