A week or so ago I succumbed to the hype (and the nagging from my devices) and installed iOS 8 on a second iPad. As far as updates go it was smooth although the post-install setup wizard crashed before it could ask me about things like iCloud Drive, which made me wonder whether I might … Continue reading iOS8 and OS X Yosemite
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With Apple's abandonment of PPC as of Snow Leopard, I began wondering what to do with the old PowerMac. It's annoying that so (comparatively) recent a piece of equipment should be given up by its manufacturer, but that's a rant for another day. Yes, we can still run Leopard until it goes out of support, … Continue reading ppc Linux on the PowerMac G5
They've done it to me once more, those folks at Apple. In 2003, while I was in the US for a residency trip, I fell in device-lust with the third-generation iPod. I brought one home, and I'm still using it (on its original battery, I might add, although there's a bit of a telltale bulge developing on … Continue reading iPod touch: device lust