It’s really easy to bash on a company when they do something that bugs you. And let’s face it, since we pay companies our hard earned money (well, most of us earn it, others just kinda’ find it), we expect the world of companies. And in Apple’s case, we expect them to be flawless, and we scour over every line of code or every feature looking for the mistake they made so we can exploit it, er, I mean, complain about it. But what about when one of our beloved vendors does something that is just kinda’ awesome? I don’t remember when it showed up (I don’t even remember when…
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Thanks for the Free Stuff Apple
iTunes is doing a special on 20 free songs for the holidays meaning that you can score 20 free songs on free music Tuesday this week! And in addition to that you can get another free Bob Dylan song (how cool is that) and a free music video from Beck and Charlotte Gainsbourg. Oh, and another free song from the 88. Then, by becoming a fan of iTunes on Facebook you get 20 more songs! Seems like someone is trying to kickstart the iTunes gift giving spree with a little free Christmas music. All that free stuff should leave plenty of money for buyin’ the new Jimmy Buffett though!
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Cloudy NetBooks
A friend of a friend has a nice blog in Cloudiness. As far as a stream of consciousness goes, it’s a great read and there are a number of recent posts dealing with that hot-button topic of the Mac NetBook. Disclaimer: I am a staunch believer in following the legal letter with regard to licensing and intellectual property; however, it’s also very interesting to me to keep up on what others are finding technically possible if only based on intellectual curiosity…
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On the Road: Fear and Loathing at MacWorld
I’ve only been attending MacWorld since a few years ago when I gave that talk on Mac OS X Server security. Before then I had no clue that there was this whole community of people out there that were going through the same issues that I was in regard to the more network and server side of things. I can’t help but think back to how much richer and more fulfilled all of this has made my career. This ecosystem has continued to grow and change, and through all of it, the last few years I am happy to have been able to contribute to it. To some extent the…
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Advanced Camp
Advanced Camp was the ACN and PSP training event held by Apple in Lake Tahoe this year. Advanced Camp was well organized and had what seemed to me to be the highest caliber of training that I’ve seen from Apple in one event thus far. The team who organized the event was probably the best put together to be able to deliver the training and even the worse of the events had plenty of great technical information. Additionally, the attendees were some of the friendliest, most professional Apple gurus I’ve had a chance to hang with in a long time. Congrats to everyone involved for holding such a well…
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Steve Jobs Lives
Since it’s the weekend, let’s leave the tech stuff out and just roll with something kinda’ funny – or not… How creepy would it be to read your own obituary?!?!? http://gawker.com/5042795/bloomberg-runs-steve-jobss-obituary
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Mac in the Cloud
A few days ago I noticed a post in Tim O’Reilly’s twitter feed asking whether or not it would matter whether people ran a Mac or a PC once everyone had migrated to a cloud. Well, there are a few things about Mac OS X that make it fairly difficult to run in a cloud environment: EFI – Mac OS X doesn’t use a BIOS like most Operating Systems. This makes the bootup process fairly difficult in a distributed computing environment where the Guest OS would be OS X and the Host OS would be something else. Lack of Firepower – I love the Xserve. I always have. They’re some…
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318 Kerio Article
I originally posted this at http://www.318.com/TechJournal Article about 318 on Apple.com, focusing on a project we did integrating Kerio to replace Microsoft Exchange, giving our client the ability to centralize all of their server assets into an Open Directory environment while still using MAPI to provide groupware components to their user base, have handheld devices that sync with their Calendar/Mail/Contacts and of course, use the standard Exchange features of mail, etc. Good stuff: http://consultants.apple.com/at_a_glance/318inc/
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Apple's Market Share
Originally posted at http://www.318.com/TechJournal According to a report by JupiterMedia Corp, Mac OS X is becoming more and more of a standard in the small to Enterprise business categories. The report states that in organizations with 10,000 or more employees, 21% use Mac OS X on their desktops in the office. In businesses with 250 employees or more, 17% of the employees run Mac OS X on their desktop computers at work. Mac OS X is taking market share aware from traditional Linux and Unix installations. One explanation for this is that Mac OS X is easier to use than Linux and Unix, especially for desktop computers. Another explanation is…
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Stay Up-to-Date on Mac Software
Version Tracker has all the latest updates on what’s new with Apple and third party software updates for the Mac: http://www.versiontracker.com