Archive for the 'Apple' Category

04
Sep

No Chrome for Mac or Linux Users

By justisengard 0 Comments
Categories: Apple, Linux, Technology and Windows
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You know I hear on the radio when driving earlier this week that Google had release a revolutionary new browser called Chrome. I got a bit excited. It sounded pretty cool and I like that fact that Google had decided to throw their innovative resources into the browser market as well. Yesterday I got a ping from a colleague asking it I had installed it yet. I have been busy over the past couple of days, and sadly replied no, but was going to. he provided some feedback on his experience and I got a bit more excited about trying it out. So later this morning I find some time and turn my browser to Google’s Chrome site.

I find the following:

So I see Beta for Windows, OK, where is the Mac and Linux versions?
Point One: Google runs on Linux. All it’s products and services benefit from the robust Linux community.
Point Two: Hello the Google CEO sits on the Apple Board of Directors.
Come on, Google has a stock price floating around the ~$500/share range, and you tell me that you can only make a Windows version.

Then I found the following: Google Co-Founder: No Mac Chrome an Embarrassment
It also states that Google co-founder Sergey Brin is a Mac user as well. Hopefully someone is getting an ass chewing.

In an interview with BoomTown’s Kara Swisher, Mr. Brin
asked if she would try out Google Chrome, to which she said “no,”
because there isn’t a Mac version available. Mr. Brin replied “”I know,
I know, it’s embarrassing.”

He added that he doesn’t know exactly when a Mac version will be
available. “I’m asking every day. I hope it’ll be a matter of months,”
he said.

Crack the whip Sergey and get those guys working…

21
Aug

Apple Tademarks Leopard System Preferences Logo

By justisengard 0 Comments
Categories: Apple and Rant
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Trademark Files for Leopard Systems Preferences Logo

Really Steve, do we have to trademark everything? Stop wasting time with all you copyrights and trademarks and hushing everyone at Apple from tell anyone what is coming next and work on fix the broke iPhone 2.x platform, iPhone battery life, and the pathetic MobileMe system. On MobileMe, how bad is it when Google provide a much better platform for free that we can bget from MobileMe for a $100/year. Stop filing patents and fix your services.

21
Aug

Hey Microsoft - Seinfield had a Mac

By justisengard 1 Comment
Categories: Apple and Windows
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Looks like Microsoft has finally had enough of Apple poking fun at Vista with its rather humorous, I’m a Mac commercials. It would seem that they have paid Jerry Seinfield $10 million dollars to appear with Bill Gates in some so-called ‘edgy Microsoft commercials. Hmmm, I wonder if anyone at the Microsoft marketing department actually watched Seinfield…cause Jerry Seinfield had a Mac in the show.
I am curious to see what the commercial will be. It is suppose ot air on September 4th.

More details: Gates, Seinfield to appear in MS Vista ads?
MS Counter - Apple ads start, admit early flaws

12
Aug

Getting an iPhone 3G - Maybe Later…

By justisengard 0 Comments
Categories: Apple and Mobility
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iPhone Suffering from Flawed 3G Chips

After reading this article about possible problems with the iPhone 3G chip, I am rather glad that I did not get one.
My situation is a bit unique. I simply do not want to buy a $300 iPhone 3G, sign a 2 year contract with AT&T, and next year this time not be able to use it when I am in Ottawa, Canada. Would be sweet if Rogers would let me simply sign my iPhone 3G purchased in the US up to their service, but that is not going to happen. Rogers is having too much fun raping their fellow Canadian citizens with their 3 year contracts and $110 limited data plans for the iPhone 3G.

Lets hope that this is a firmware fixable issue. God knows the Iphone 2.0 software is slow and buggy. It literally takes me 2 seconds to get SMS Text Messaging to appear once clicking on the iPhone icon. Even longer for it to bring up my contacts list.
I was a huge fan of the iPhone 2G and the 1.0 software, but I have to say, with the 2.0.1 (that is even with a bug fix or two) the iPhone works like an alpha product. Battery life….hmmm, do not get me started. Oh, and why does it take an hour to sync my iPhone now - why?

Steve - Please use some those hordes of cash you are making off the new phones and the App Store and fix the damn software…please!

23
Jul

VMware Fusion Users Beware

By justisengard 2 Comments
Categories: Apple, Technology and Virtualization
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Just came across the following article about a possible bug with VMware Fusion.

VMware blames Apple for Fusion corruption

According to VMware, the underlying problem is in the way Mac OS X
handles unbuffered I/O. The issue is variously referred to as either a
bug or “a disagreement between Fusion and OS X about what sequences of
disk-write calls are legal to make.”

Unbuffered I/O works by sending data directly to the file, as opposed
to buffered I/O which stages the data to be written into a block of
memory (a buffer) and then writes the contents of the buffer out to the
file.

The good news is that with its default settings, Fusion does not use unbuffered I/O.

Well, evidently, I am not the power user of years past, as I did not know there was such a setting to change.

For now, VMware says “We have reported this issue to Apple, but until
this bug is resolved, we recommend that all VMware Fusion users ensure
they select the default option, in VMware Fusion Preferences, for
‘Optimize for virtual machine disk performance’ to guard against
potential data loss.”

29
Jun

Bush wants to use Military Satellites for Domestic Surveillance

By justisengard 0 Comments
Categories: Apple and Rant

You’re On Candid Camera

A Bush administration program to expand domestic use of Pentagon spy satellites has aroused new concerns in Congress about possible civil-liberties abuses.

What the hell? I mean just how far are we going to let President BombsaLot go? Please, someone explain how far fear is going to allow our country to become a fascist state?

Rep. Jane Harman,
a California Democrat who chairs the House Homeland Security
Subcommittee on intelligence, told Newsweek that majorities in both the
House and Senate intend to block all funding for the domestic
intelligence center at least until August, when the Government
Accountability Office, an investigative agency that works for Congress,
completes a report examining civil-liberties and privacy issues related
to the domestic use of picture-taking spy satellites.

Thanks Jane, but what is there to look at or review? Am I going to need to worry about explaining everything I do to big brother soon?

29
Jun

Why cannot iTunes Multi-Task?

By justisengard 0 Comments
Categories: Apple and Rant

Steve Jobs, can you explain to me why iTunes on Leopard cannot download and play a video podcast at the same time?
I do not run iTunes in the background all the time. So when i start it up to watch, typically Diggnation, it starts to update and download all my podcasts, some large some small. When iTunes finishes a download it updates the iTunes database, and I get the rainbow beach ball with now sounds and video for the video podcast I am watching. Oh, and it is not like it pauses the podcast, the podcast still runs, you just cannot hear or see it while iTunes does some update. WHY, tell me why Apple cann fix iTunes to not do this? Please someone explain.

14
Apr

OpenMac - A Mac Clone soon to be out of business

By justisengard 0 Comments
Categories: Apple, Rant and Technology

Company claims to sell Mac clone for $399

It would be lovely if this nice little company down in Miami Florida had a chance in hell of lasting. However, Steve Jobs, seems to forever remain with the corncob shoved waaay up there, and is never ever going to loosen his iron fist grip around his absolute control of Mac hardware. I am not going to deny that this strategy has it advantages. One Microsoft and Vista owners have learned with non-working device drivers. But it is a dream….one day. One could also argue, given the recent success that the absolute control and over charging (Apple tax) for their products has not been a problem. If people are willing to pay the ‘Apple Tax’, myself included, why would Steve wanna change. My answer to that is market share. When Michael Dell calls you up and says, ‘Steve, what is it going to take for Dell to put Mac OX on our hardware?’ That is opportunity knocking.
Do not get me wrong I love my Macbook Pro, and OS X, but Apple has been making some poor choices in my opinion of late.
The whole ‘bricking’ iPhones, making everyone wait a year for an SDK and then denying developers access for no good reason. Talk about a complete control freak. Apple could have the consumer phone markey locked up if they would simply get out of the draconian control mindset. The whole one wireless carrier it stupid, and unecessarily limiting your market. The obvious Apple Tax price of the iPhone is the same. If Apple had released the iPhone for $199 with minimally AT&T and T-Mobile, and worked with the other carriers, and simply not fought with iPhone developers, so we could have free apps — they would have domainated the mobile phone market by now.
Oh well, it was but a dream….like is OpenMac…

12
Jan

VMware Fusion Wins Annual Macworld Editors’ Choice Award

By justisengard 0 Comments
Categories: Apple and Technology
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VMware Fusion Wins Annual Macworld Editor’s Choice Award

VMware MacWorld 2008

I have been running Fusion on my Macbook Pro since it was in beta.  Have yet to have any issues with it at all. Been running a couple of Windows XP VMs for several months.  It is good product.  nice to see it getting some recognition.  Also, as a VMware stock owner, I like this too.  ;-)
 

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30
Dec

iPhone Fireware Update 1.1.3 to Add New Features

By justisengard 0 Comments
Categories: Apple, Rant and Technology
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iPhone 1.1.3 to bring Home customization, Locate Me, more

Well, all I can say is that it is about time that the good folks at Apple finally decided to start added some features and learn from the iPhone application hacker community that they have a wonderful platform on which to build new features and apps.  …and that they need to get off there asses and start developing.  I mean give me a break, if the iPhone Hackers can do all this development in there free time and for free, why cannot a big corporation with a stock price around $190 do at least as much if not more.

Ok, I will stop ranting, as i willbe looking forward to the 1.1.3 firmware update.  However, I will have to unhack my iPhone now to update it, so the good folks at Apple do not brick my phone.

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