Category: Tech
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The new Apple Music Classical app solves the wrong problem. Is Apple Music Disco next?
Apple Music has long frustrated classical music fans. In response, why did Apple opt to create an entirely separate app?
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Businessman, artiste, or madman? We Live in Public
If you dig the deeply cynical TV series Black Mirror, you’ll love this documentary profile of businessman/artiste/madman Josh Harris. Love, hate, or pity him, Harris is undoubtedly a fascinating individual who succumbed to information-age and surveillance state delusion back during a time when we still used terms like “cyber-surfing the information superhighway” to describe the […]
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Based On a True Story: Mike Daisey
I agree 99% with the popular consensus regarding Mike Daisey: he lied. But the tiny 1% nobody seems to be talking about is bothering the hell out of me: if his now infamous monologue “The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs” is a work of fiction, why can’t we talk about it as a work […]
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Get a Real Job! or, Thoughts on Pseudo.com
Bringing new meaning to the phrase “get a real job,” I now learn that my last full-time gig was for a “fake company.” Years after the fact of its demise, Pseudo.com founder Josh Harris has pronounced to Boing Boing that Pseudo Programs Inc. was in fact a massive performance art piece, aided and abetted by […]
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In which I complain at length about Adobe Illustrator & Updater
IconFactory vents their Top 5 Adobe Illustrator pet peeves. A flood of “I know, right?”s from fellow travelers quickly followed, but on the plus side, so did a hopefully productive dialog with Adobe. I couldn’t agree more with the selection weirdness. Frustrated by Illustrator, I frequently find myself using Macromedia Fireworks for vector graphics (hardly […]
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More iTunes and iPod minutia
Because I just can’t help myself, a few more comments on iTunes: The iTunes 7.0.1 maintenance update (no longer online: apple.com/support/downloads/itunes701.html) has finally dropped. I haven’t noticed any real speed improvements, but Apple has fixed the bug of dragging image files to the album art window not working. Partially fixed, rather… you can now only […]
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My iTunes 7 Nightmare
As Engadget reports, iTunes 7 may be more than a little flakey, and I have a nightmare story of my own. First, some background: I use a PowerBook G4 17″, with a very, very large iTunes library of 16,000 plus tracks, stored on an external 250 GB LaCie Firewire hard drive. Perhaps unwisely, I was […]
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Notes on Apple’s “It’s Showtime” special event
Time for some obligatory mouthing off about Apple’s latest iFiesta, the “It’s Showtime” special event at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater in San Francisco. iPod with Video (such an ungainly name): enhanced with more storage and brighter screen. iPod Nano: totally redesigned. Or rather, it’s just like the retired iPod mini except […]
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I Heart Katamari
Best. Game. Ever. To give that statement a little context: I’m a novice gamer at best. I didn’t grow up with an Atari, so I’m a latecomer to all this beeping, flashing, vibrating analog joysticking stuff. A few years ago, I was engrossed in The Matrix films to a degree that seems silly now. But […]