Archive for category: Macintosh supremacy

Of or pertaining to the supremacy of the Macintosh

How to listen to YouTube audio as a “podcast”    (2018.01.09)

Who the hell wants to sit fixedly in a chair watching a visually uninteresting YouTube video when you can just listen to it while on the go? A lot of lectures and interviews have no useful visual component, and you really can just listen to them and miss almost nothing

Eudora reminiscences    (2017.10.05)

Eudora equivalent of 2017: Overcast

Defeating Face ID    (2017.09.28)

There are other face-recognition systems, even on telephones, but Face ID on the iPhone X will be the gold standard to beat. Hence it becomes an amusing parlour game to imagine ways to defeat this still-unreleased technology [update with how stupid I feel about this entire post]

Steve Dorner: Still undead    (2015.07.04)

Steve Dorner: Still undead, and your E‑mail still sucks

Daring Fireball Truth and Reconciliation Commission    (2015.06.12)

King of Macintosh journalists John Gruber, like his fellow-traveller male technology hacks, has much to answer for after they spent years hushing up the fact Tim Cook is gay

Names of Apple designers    (2015.03.18)

From numerous sources, names of many of Apple’s allegedly-19-strong team of designers

Memo to Khoi Vinh: Helvetica complaints    (2014.10.28)

Khoi Vinh: “Helvetica has been the standard system typeface for iOS since the beginning, and largely without complaint.” Oh?

Two editors you don’t want working on your nonfiction book    (2014.01.16)

Natalie Horbechevsky and Brooke Carey. They’re the editrixen listed in the acknowledgements to Leander Kahney’s Jony Ive: The Genius Behind Apple’s Greatest Products, a treasure trove of repetitiveness and warmed-over quotes