One of the reasons I appreciate Apple hardware and software is that the company has always favored quality over quantity. Fewer features well-executed makes a better product than many confusing features. A certain company in Redmond is still grappling with this concept. David Pogue of the New York Times (and writer of several books about [...]
Monthly Archives: June 2007
Berkeley, Chicago, Harvard, Stanford, and Yale
What do all of these law schools have in common? They all use an honor system for exams. They do not use exam software to lock down student computers. Why? Is it that administrators at these schools recognize that their students are more honest than the rest of us? Is it that those schools have [...]
Posted in Exams & Exam Software, Speculation 8 Comments
$39 for VMware Fusion
VMware’s answer to Parallels won’t be shipping until August or later, but you can get a nice deal on it if you pre-order. The normally $79 virtualization software is available at $39 for a limited time for early adopters of their 1.0 release. Tip o’ the hat to The Apple Blog.
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Leopards and iPhones on Safari
The Apple WWDC (World Wide Developers Conference) keynote by Steve Jobs this morning revealed more about Leopard’s upcoming capabilities. In short, it appears that Leopard will be anything but an incremental release. If this were a Microsoft OS, they’d be calling it Windows Panorama, rather than Windows Vista SP 1. Leopard won’t arrive until October, [...]
Posted in Apple, Reviews & Updates, Speculation, Windows on Mac 6 Comments
Camino 1.5 is Sweet
The other day the fine people of the Camino Project released version 1.5 of Camino. This is an excellent browser. It doesn’t have a laundry list of features, but the ones it does have are executed very well. In particular, I am very happy with the way Camino handles Tab Bundles. Grouping a set of [...]
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