Computers fail; often. And if they don’t fail, they get stolen. And if they don’t get stolen, they get lost. And even if you backup, how often does that backup work. I use a Mac, and every so often I’m reminded why I use a Mac. It gets out of my way and just works, [...]
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TidBITS turns 1000!
A brief shout-out to the team over at TidBITS (the Mac news site that seems to have been around since the dawning of time!). They have published a newsletter regularly since April 1990, and hit #1000 on October 19th 2009! To Adam, Tonya and the rest of the TidBITS group; Congratulations and here’s to another [...]
Corded Phones
My NT Vista 350Northern Telecom Vista 350
Growing up in Toronto in the 80s and 90s meant that my telecom provider at home was Bell.
While you used to be able to buy phones, you also could rent them. For numerous reasons (mostly because Bell was a corporate brother to Northern Telecom) Bell had “NT” phones.
And damn, those phones were good. I should say ARE good.
Apple’s new iPod Shuffle
WTF Apple? Okay, I get it. Apple fanboys/girls are used to paying a bit more for your product, but at least it met The Scot’s minimum QPR (Quality:Price Ratio). It’s a non-scientific/gut feel measurement, and yes it’s metric. The new iPod Shuffle (released March 11/2009) loses the controls found previously on earlier models, and moves [...]