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Marco, on whether the e-reader is “doomed” or not

January 5, 2012 Posted in Books, gadgets, Kindle, Observations, Quotes by

Marco Arment has a good response to Matt Alexander’s suggestion that the e-reader is already dead. Most telling for me was what I thought Marco was going to say in his last paragraph. I think it could equally well read: ‘I don’t think the e-reader is “doomed” at all. It may just be relegated to […]


iTunes Match and Podcast Playlists: A Fix!

December 24, 2011 Posted in gadgets, Geekery, OSX, Podcasts, tips by

In my last post, I described the problems I was having syncing manual podcast playlists between iTunes and my iPhone after I upgraded to iTunes Match/iCloud. Well, it looks like I got an early Christmas present from YouOverRotated, who commented: I was in the same exact situation, except mine’s a BMW, not a Mini =). […]


iTunes Match and the Podcast Playlist Problem

December 16, 2011 Posted in gadgets, Geekery, OSX, rants by

EDIT: Whoop! Looks like YouOverRotated’s comment below was spot-on. Thanks! See my new post on how that suggestion got my playlist syncing working again. Oh, iTunes. Does it have to be this way? So, I now have iTunes Match, with all of its associated Cloudy goodness. But I also have a problem. Can anyone help me […]


The Road Ahead

August 22, 2011 Posted in Announcements, Career, Geekery, Productivity, programming by

Over the last few years, I’ve slowly been enjoying my day job less and less. It went in one direction as I went in another. Still, it was a decent source of monthly income, and while it was challenging work, on one level it was at least easy to keep on doing it, day after day. […]


Little Lion Luxuries

July 19, 2011 Posted in Mac, OSX by

I’m sure the release of Lion will be accompanied by an entire pride of in-depth reviews. In fact, people have been doing warm-ups to get ready for John Siracusa’s mammoth review… So, instead of digging too deep, or tackling any of the more controversial features  —  and it’ll be interesting to see which generates the most arguments […]


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