Ten-Year Trend: Mobility
Posted by Stephen in Apple, Computer history, Enterprise storage, Everything, Personal, Terabyte home, Virtual Storage on 11. Mar, 2009 | View Comments
What is the megatrend of this decade? I suggest that we are witnessing a wholesale shift from information tied to place/device to information mobility. Cloud computing, server virtualization, and even flash memory are all contributors to this massive trend, along with the user-side trends of the post-PDA mobile phone, 3G data, social web services, and connected home.
Can the iPhone Sync With Multiple Exchange Servers?
Posted by Stephen in Apple on 26. Feb, 2009 | View Comments
One of the major advances introduced in iPhone software version 2.0 was the ability to sync over-the-air to Microsoft Exchange servers using Microsoft’s ActiveSync protocol. This was introduced to much fanfare with the iPhone 3G and is available on older updated iPhone and iPod Touch units, too. Google and NuevaSync also offer over-the-air calendar and [...]
iPhone: The Frustratingest iPod Ever!
Posted by Stephen in Apple on 15. Dec, 2008 | View Comments
Apple may think that the iPhone and iPod Touch are the “funnest” ever, but I’d like to give the “touch” iPod implementation in these devices a new name: When it comes to controls, it is the frustratingest iPod ever! (Ok, maybe the Shuffle is slightly worse…)
Seriously, the simplicity of control was one of the prime factors (along [...]
2.2 And Eight Things That Are Still Wrong With The iPhone
Posted by Stephen in Apple on 13. Dec, 2008 | View Comments
Eleven months ago, I wrote about twelve things that were wrong with the iPhone in OS version 1.1.3. Now that OS 2.2 is here, I figure it is time to revisit my list.
What Was Fixed Since 1.1.3
Apple have made a lot of progress in the year and a half that the iPhone has been in [...]
Flash Forward or Flash Back?
Posted by Stephen in Apple, Computer history, Enterprise storage on 08. Nov, 2008 | View Comments
This is part of an ongoing series of longer articles I am posting every Sunday.
The tech industry has been buzzing about solid state drives (SSDs) again lately, but many questions remain. Even after many major vendors (Apple, EMC, and Dell to name a few) have introduced NAND flash-based disk into their core products, it is unclear [...]
No More CDs
Posted by Stephen in Apple, Personal, Terabyte home on 17. Dec, 2007 | View Comments
So yesterday we finished ripping our entire CD collection – we’ve now completed our switch to digital music at home. It’s done.
It amuses me to think of the statistics:
We have 11,284 tracks stored, including 279 Christmas songs and 549 kids songs!
Most songs were ripped using LAME at the VBR3 setting in joint stereo
This music library [...]
