Category Archives: mac

Wil Shipley is a fucking genius

You know, just like me. But uh, the difference is, he writes it down.

My Japanese iPhone sucks, wah

After the servers stopped crapping out, and the line of people waiting to buy subsided, I finally got my Japanese iPhone. Anybody on the Internet already knows about the hardware (yep it’s great, despite a few remaining standout flaws, which have already been hashed to death).
But there are a few Japan-specific bits of suck:

In the […]

my new iPhone sucks, wah

So I updated my iPhone (US original model) to the just-released iPhone OS 2.0. Now, just like hundreds of billions of other people around the world, I can only call 911. Pretty fucking lame.

(Clarification: No, this phone has never been hacked or jailbroken. Apple’s servers just (predictably) shit all over themselves when faced […]

power windows for your Mac

From the Ars Technica review of Safari 3.1 (emphasis mine):

I now think Apple is actually pushing to make [Safari] a truly competitive Windows browser. Case in point: Apple fixed it so that you can resize the window by grabbing any part of the Window: top, bottom, left side, etc. When 3.0 beta came out, it […]

more Mac OS X 10.5 full system crashes

All right, my new and not-quite-improved 8-core Mac Pro is really getting into the spirit of this Apple Bug Friday thing! That is to say, by hard crashing Mac OS X 10.5 in new and exciting ways, so I don’t have to waste my time hunting for those bugs to file.
I think he’s probably […]

my new Mac sucks, wah

Lame. I really wanted to love this Mac. After spending a couple months traveling the globe (cool), and therefore suffering in the underpowered hell-world of laptop computing (lame), I was ready to get a workstation with real power to shuffle my daily bits around. So I bought the 2008-model eight-core Mac Pro. I loaded it […]