Intel is doing an ad campaign with Justin Long to sell PCs because Justin Long used to play the Mac in an Apple campaign from over a decade ago. I find them off-putting, and not because they aren’t funny or because they make fun of Apple, but because they make no sense. First off, Apple […]
Author Archives: Jack Wellborn
The original HomePod has been discontinued. I can’t say that I am surprised. It was a $350 dollar speaker that ulitmately didn’t sell well because it was competing in a market dominated by sub-$100 home assistants. That said, I have four HomePods. Before you judge, know that I didn’t buy them under the illusion that […]
I love my AirPods for many reasons. They sound good, hold a charge, fit in my ears, and are surprisingly drop resistant. My AirPods also reliably hold a good connection to whatever device that is playing. That being said, switching that connection, say from my iPhone to my iPad, has been less than ideal. While […]
Tom Warren, writing for The Verge: Facebook is stepping up its campaign against Apple’s privacy changes with a second full-page newspaper ad today. This new ad claims Apple’s iOS 14 privacy changes “will change the internet as we know it,” and force websites and blogs “to start charging you subscription fees” or add in-app purchases […]
From Microsoft’s blog: We are excited to announce that starting today we are releasing new versions of many of our Microsoft 365 for Mac apps that run natively on Macs with M1. This means that now our core flagship Office apps—Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote—will run faster and take full advantage of the performance […]
Given my last two posts, you may be asking why the hell would someone even want to automate something as simple as rating songs. I have three reasons. First, I can’t judge a song on first listen. My enjoyment of a given song develops and changes over time. Second, I am not an active music […]
My last post was about the limitations of Siri Shortcuts. I used rating songs as an example of a simple automation that isn’t supported on iOS, but that is easily accomplished on the Mac in various ways. One of those ways was using Automator. Automator is a lot like Shortcuts in that both have drag-and-drop […]
At its best, automation seems like magic. Look no further than The Sorcerer’s Apprentice from Disney’s Fantasia. Just like Mickey is able to direct various cleaning implements to do his tedious physical chores, automation lets us direct our computers to do our tedious digital ones. I love automation, but I’ve come away frustrated nearly every […]
On the most recent Talk Show, John Gruber vented to John Moltz about the state of Windows after having to troubleshoot his son’s gaming PC. You should go listen to the whole episode, but I think the following statement nicely sums up Gruber’s feelings on the operating system: Windows is a goddamn criminal nightmare. Given […]
Jason Snell was not only a Mac user 25 years ago, he also covered the Mac perspective of Windows 95 in MacUser. From his brief retrospective on Six Colors: The magazine I worked at back then, MacUser, decided to offer up as a rejoinder a cover that said “Windows 95: So What?” … Here’s the […]