I have long known that Mac users and PC users speak a different language.

There’s a fundamental difference between how PC users use their machines and how Mac users do it. The biggest one being that backups and restores are absolutely no problem over here. I still have no idea how one accomplishes this under Windows without copying over massive groups of files, by hand. In fact… now that I think about it, I’m pretty sure that’s the only way to do it under Windows without spending any money on third party software and if that’s the case, that makes me really, really sad.

Apple, may I say again, that Time Machine… simply rocks.

Over a year later and I have had absolutely no problems with my Macbook. I have never had to restore anything from Time Machine, except that one time when I accidentally deleted a file. It was super easy to get it back.… [Read More]

Cheap Shoes

It’s not hard to notice that the local news media outlets and their outdated websites has become one of my pet peeves. I suppose I should be a bit more honest about why this is a pet peeve of mine though. You see, it really boils down to the fact that I have a satellite dish and they charge extra for access to local TV stations, and signal for the local TV stations where I live is laughable. I suppose that’s the way of things when you live on the side of a mountain, but you would think that these things would improve with time as technology advanced. Here, they don’t. I’ve lived in this town for over a decade and I have never lived in a part of town where you could get good local television signal. When I first moved here, cable didn’t offer the local stations as part of any of their packages and then, when they did add them, you had to pay extra for them.… [Read More]

The Internet Should be Platformless

And honestly, coming from a pc, I wondered how I was going to make that work. Even though the mac is less susceptible to viruses, and I think this is primarily because there are less macs out there, it still makes sense to consider security when you put a computer on the internet. Of course, from Apple’s perspective, this is a win win situation.

Apple has recommended 3 products on their support pages. All of which, they happen to sell on the Apple store for 70$ a shot. I won’t go into the merits of the products because to be honest, I haven’t used them. The point is, Apple sells the products for their vendors. The vendors see a boost in their sales because the products are linked to the apple store right there on the support page. Users will see that, think, “Hey great! Antivirus! This is a good idea!” and buy it.… [Read More]

Apple Says: Get Antivirus Protection

This is interesting. Defective by Design is hosting 35 days against DRM, during which they will pick a product that everyone should boycott in order to speak their mind about how much they think DRM sucks.

Their first product, sadly enough, is the new Macbook.

Why am I not surprised that they’ve targeted Apple?

It seems like Apple is a fair target for anyone these days. The Apple hatred has almost gotten as bad as the Windoze hatred that was so popular a few years ago, before Steve Jobs came back to Apple and made Apple cool again. Sometimes, I think that geeks really do just want to be different and they don’t care what they have to do to accomplish that.

I understand that Apple has pandered to the DRM gods, but they had to do this in order to be successful. No one else was even willing to consider negotiating with them, the fact that Apple had the foresight to go there and say, “Hey, we have the most popular MP3 player on the planet.… [Read More]

35 Days Against DRM