Practical Technology

Wow, the way people are arguing about iPhones vs. Android phones I’m having flash-backs to the grand old tech. flame wars of Macs vs. PCs; OS/2 vs. Windows; or vi vs. EMACS. Now, I don’t have a dog in this fight. I’ve used both iPhones and Android phones, specifically the HTC EVO and Motorola Droid, [...]

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I was very pleased to see Apple’s new Mac OS X Snow Leopard patch this morning. It fixed numerous minor, but annoying problems with my Mac Mini and my wife’s MacBook Pro. It also cleaned up numerous security problems. That’s the good news. The bad news is it also introduced a serious security bug by [...]

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Apple has long had a history of being arrogant. But, more often than not, they’ve been able to back it up by the quality of their products. Now, though, with Apple locking out Adobe Flash and Google Ads, not to mention their cute trick of setting up an HTML 5 demo site that only works [...]

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Linux rules supercomputers. It’s vitally important to servers. And, Linux is making gains on the desktop. Where Linux is really going to shine in the next twelve months though is in devices: tablets, smartphones, and TVs. For example, more than a dozen Apple iPad-like tablets made their first appearance at the Computex computer show in [...]

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Steve Jobs anti-Adobe Flash rant is really quite a remarkable document both for what it says, and what it doesn’t say. First, and foremost, there’s the fact that Jobs spends most of his time complaining about the Flash format and ignoring the real beef Adobe has with Apple. Sure Adobe doesn’t like that Apple won’t [...]

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