Virginia Heffernan’s piece in the New York Times Magazine over the weekend tries to make the case that the Web is chaotic and dangerous, and therefore those who can afford the iPhone/iPad will increasingly be segregating themselves to a clean and happy non-Web future, one sanitized by Apple (thanks to the App Store, where everything [...]
I read the following quote today, said by Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer (courtesy of All Things D): “Frankly, the economy is good for us, because people do understand that Macintoshes are quite a bit more expensive for essentially the same computer.” So he’s expecting to have strong sales, thanks to the bad economy. I disagree. [...]
I just tried out SnowChecker, a free piece of software that goes through your applications and tells you whether the software you have, and the versions you have, are compatible with Snow Leopard. It’s a great idea, since it’s nice to know ahead of time what kind of headaches you’ll be in for–whether you need [...]
A number of our clients have moved to Snow Leopard, and for the most part they are finding the transition smooth except for one thing: PRINTING. The old printer drivers no longer work under Snow Leopard. Furthermore, they don’t know where to go to get new drivers, nor do they know how to download and [...]
It’s getting close to holiday time again–which means it’s time for me to start on the IvanExpert holiday cards. Each year, we send out holiday/New Year’s cards to our top clients, and the cards always feature a photo I’ve taken somewhere in NYC. So yesterday I used iPhoto’s amazing card printing service (yes, built right [...]
For Mac users, certain items should always be compressed before they get attached to an email and sent off: Large attachments Folders (if you want to send an entire folder of documents attached to one email) Unusual file types (not MP3, PDF, JPG, Excel, or Word–these are usually okay), as they often get corrupted in transit [...]
Years ago, my job required me to read and write emails for the full 8 hours a day. When I went home in the evening I found my eyes were having trouble focusing, and my wrists also started aching. Luckily my work now doesn’t require me to stare at the screen for hours on end. [...]
For years, I have heard the question “can I use my old iMac as a screen for my laptop?” or variants of it, and the answer has always been no, an iMac is a full computer, and you can’t use it as a dumb display. That was until I discovered ScreenRecycler, a brilliant application which [...]
I was recently at a client who needed me to copy a file from her old PC hard drive — which was sitting on a shelf, per my suggestion, for a rainy day such as this. The only problem was is that I had accidentally forgotten the IDE->USB cable — rare, but it happens. I [...]
