Practicalmadness

Because apparently, choosing an external editor has consequences.

I can tell you about the wattage on its power adapter, what ports it's missing and that it comes with a free copy of Comic Life. But can I tell you how many hours it'll run between recharges? No. No, I can't.

While I don't want to give the impression that I'm anything but jazzed about iLife '06 -- such that I'll be writing an epic-length post on it alone -- I do want to take a moment to acknowledge some disappointments from today's keynote.

I do expect that iLife and .Mac will be the sideshow at Macworld. But I think it's an easy bet that Apple's got a better answer for people wondering how to create a podcast, and that we'll know what it is tomorrow.

Somebody found a page from Apple's website referencing iLife '06 and a new product called "iWeb" in Google's cache. I'm officially psyched.

There have been so many changes in computing since 1991, and yet one thing that has remained constant is the Intel Inside campaign -- that logo, that slogan and that damned jingle. Now, as Apple begins its switch to Intel processors, Intel is preparing a switch of its own.

It's a lovely gesture, I think, and a reminder that _sometimes_ Apple's attitude isn't just pretension.

If you ignore the elephant in the middle of the room -- video -- there's not a lot to talk about with iTunes 6, but there are a few nice little surprises

So in the space of an hour Steve Jobs gave us three things we’ve always dreamed of: A video iPod A black iPod A reliable way to legally download episodes of Lost. I’ll confess: I’m smitten with the new 60...

I have little doubt that there will be some kind of hard disk-based iPod announced today.

I’m in the very strange position of actually being able to run out and buy the latest Apple gadget, the super-tiny iPod Nano, if I wanted to. But I find myself actually in an even stranger position: I don’t really...

I was skeptical, but now I’m a convert: the Apple Mighty Mouse rocks. I’m using it on my work computer and I’ll grant that while Mighty Mouse doesn’t offer anything that my office-provided Logitech optical mouse doesn’t, it just feels...

Something I forgot to tell you amid all this talk of rodents.

Here it comes to save the day -- the Apple Mighty Mouse is on the way.

The New York Times is reporting that Arabs are Riveted And Angered By Fahrenheit 9/11.. And yet, some critics are cautioning audiences not to be so enthusiastic about Michael Moore’s spirited critique of the Bush II Administration, since it presents...

In which I bitch about an IM switch itch sitch.

In which we review the new incarnation of a superlative weblogging app.

Today’s post on Hivelogic uses that blogger’s WeatherPop icon as a brief, graphical way to exult over the fact that, yay, it’s snowing. (Dude, what are you, ten?) Anyway, I have some issues with the current weather icon in...

I stumbled onto a really neat trick in Mac OS X just tonight: the same Command-Shift-4 keystroke you use to take screen captures of specific areas/windows on the screen can also be used to take a perfect, full-sized screenshot of...

If you ever do graphics for video or DVD using Photoshop (and, I mean, who hasn't!), you may have found yourself wishing for a gahdamned, muthafuckin' title safe area, for chrissakes, one feature that the designers of Photoshop decided would...