Archive for category: Macintosh supremacy

Of or pertaining to the supremacy of the Macintosh

Somebody buy Russell Smith an iPad    (2012.03.11)

Novelist/columnist/journalist/bon vivant Russell Smith needs to quit dramatically bemoaning that his literary career is over the next time he suffers a retinal detachment. Instead, he needs an iPad

GetGlue, maker of iPhone apps blind people can’t use, is hiring!    (2011.11.30)

Some kind of app named GetGlue is so inaccessible two blind people had to record a 45-minute podcast teaching you how to overcome the problem. And now GetGlue is hiring!

Can you use an iPhone in the Yukon?    (2011.11.29)

Yes, the iPhone 4S works in Whitehorse, Yellowknife, and Fort Nelson – but you’d never know it from the lack of publicity

How to take a screenshot    (2011.11.21)

On the iPad, press two buttons together. On the Kindle Fire, start a 22-step process

Steve Jobs at Apple vs. Edwin Land at Polaroid    (2011.11.07)

Edwin Land of Polaroid did almost everything Steve Jobs did – invented new technologies, built factories to manufacture them, imposed absolute secrecy, stirred audiences with spectacle, trained customers to want the next step in the evolution of technology – but did it 30 years earlier

Two Gruberian corrections    (2011.10.21)

Mild rebukes of John Gruber about pictures of text and system fonts that may or may not be “clones”

Customers ‘pay a steep price premium for every Apple product they buy’    (2011.10.11)

Did you know that customers “pay a steep price premium for every Apple product they buy”? Well, Roger Martin thinks so. No “moron” he

How exactly did the Mac help Tabatha Southey write?    (2011.10.10)

Tabatha Southey has a learning disability, but claimed the Mac allowed her to write. Now: How, exactly?

Of course Siri will work in Canada    (2011.10.10)

Of course Siri will work in Canada. Spoken Canadian English is American English. Now, French becomes another issue