Author Archives: Michael

About Michael

Started computing with a Commodore 64 during his elementary school years. Used PCs from the DOS era until Windows XP came out and he couldn’t take the increasing mediocrity. A Mac user since 2001. There’s no looking back.

Hacked iPhones vulnerable to worm attack

Posted on November 11, 2009 by Michael

There is an iPhone worm that is making the news this week. One thing that may not be obvious in some of the stories is that the iPhones that are vulnerable have been hacked by their owners or “jailbroken” as … Continue reading →

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How to do an ad hoc install of an iOS app

Posted on November 1, 2009 by Michael

You can run iOS applications that weren’t downloaded from the iTunes App Store. This is referred to as ad hoc installation and is usually something you would do for testing purposes of the app. Continue reading →

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Apple announces the first multi-touch mouse

Posted on October 20, 2009 by Michael

Apple today introduced the new wireless Magic Mouse, the first mouse to use Apple’s revolutionary Multi-Touch technology. Pioneered on iPhone, iPod touch and Mac notebook trackpads, Multi-Touch allows customers to navigate using intuitive finger gestures. Continue reading →

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Marketing Ramp Champ on the App Store

Posted on October 9, 2009 by Michael

Marco Arment wrote a great article on how the App Store is really two different stores. He doesn’t say it, but it’s really Wal-Mart and L.L. Bean in the same store. One is focused on low prices and volume while the other is focused on quality. Marco uses Ramp Champ as an excellent case study in how to approach these two stores. Continue reading →

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Re-organizing the iTunes 9 library

Posted on September 10, 2009 by Michael

iTunes now lets you organize everything into an upper level “iTunes Media” folder structure, which then breaks out neatly into logical groupings: movies, apps, shows, and so on. via holman runs the voodoo down.

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