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John Siracusa’s Yosemite Review

by Deep Thinker on 16 October, 2014, no comments

And while I’m still waiting for Yosemite to finally turn up on the Mac App Store – I mean, hello? -, there’s already John Siracusa’s iconic Mac OS X 10.10 review on Ars Technica. Very busy at present, but I am looking forward to cuddle up with a cup of coffee, and just enjoy reading this. […]

iPad Air 2 – no rotation lock switch?!

by Deep Thinker on 16 October, 2014, no comments

So, Apple just introduced the all new iPad Air 2 (Gosh, what a mouthful of a name!). I am still on the iPad 3 – the very first iPad with Retina, that a rapid six months later got replaced by the iPad 4, and has universally been described as way too slow to do Retina in the […]

Blogistics

by Deep Thinker on 6 October, 2014, no comments

So I got myself a new blogging app called Blogo, and this is my first post with it. Let’s see if this will now start a new blogging renaissance, and revive this criminally neglected blog. Well, posting seems easy enough, and it also seems easy to insert images and links from other websites, as it has […]

Carpe Diem

by Deep Thinker on 12 August, 2014, no comments

Dead Poets’ Society spoke so much to me, when I was a teenager, trying to figure out the world. And Robin Williams brought an amazing character to life, telling us things we all need to know. Rest in peace, oh Captain my Captain.

1997

by Deep Thinker on 25 January, 2014, no comments

Well, as everyone is celebrating 30 years of Macintosh, I thought  I just briefly bring up my very first Mac – the Powerbook G3 (Wallstreet). I saved for ages, waiting for the first Mac that seemed like the right one to buy – almost settling on the PowerBook 5400, but simply feeling like there was […]

iOS 7 is not good

by Deep Thinker on 16 November, 2013, no comments

I have now spent more than a month with iOS 7, both on my old iPhone 4S as well as recently my new 5S. So here’s my question. In which world is this: …in any shape or form better than this: The original iBooks shelf is a rich, vibrant design, calling in mind old book […]

Do better

by Deep Thinker on 22 July, 2013, no comments

Harry Marks over at Curious Rat writes about rejection letters. It is a good article (Harry’s blog is full of thoughtful and well argued posts like this, and I check it out regularly – I do not necessarily always agree with him, but I can never dispute that he is presenting his point well) and this little […]