Oct 6, 2011 0
Steve Jobs, 1955–2011
OV Wright :: No Easy Way To Say Goodbye
Aug 25, 2011 0
A change is gonna come
Thanks Steve, how different my life would have been had it not been for you and Apple. I used Macs in my first ful-time job and have used them and written about them ever since.
There’s not a lot to add that hasn’t been said already. Steve Jobs resigns; Apple goes on. Sure the company will change, but that would have happened anyway. Under Jobs, Apple never stood still. Industries were transformed and our lives are less dull and a lot less frustrating than they would otherwise have been.
Jul 26, 2011 0
Some Lion impressions
Mac OS X 10.7 — aka Lion — is some achievement. Quite how Apple managed to take something so well loved, time-honoured, proven and functional and turn it into the dog’s dinner that is Lion’s interface beggars belief.
Jul 12, 2011 0
Because I have nothing to add
Which might strike some as unlikely, but, much as I would love to pontificate on the future of the Mac and touchy-feely iPhone, iPad and iPod, I really do have nothing to add.
Since I’m not a registered developer — or programmer as we used to call them — I don’t yet have access to the latest test versions of OS X (the software that makes Macs works) and iOS (which does the same for touchy-feely). So I’m breaking the first law of blogging, which says that ignorance should never be a barrier to opinion, and declining to register an opinion on the the all-round awesomesness of wireless sync, iCloud and free — free FFS — SMS. Damn, failed.
Jun 30, 2011 0
No Schengen for iTunes
You’d think that moving an iTunes account from one country to another, as I’ve had to do three times, would be straightforward. But unlike international travel in much of Europe, it’s not.
Due largely to media companies’ archaic licensing regimes, Apple is forced to maintain a separate store for each country in which it operates, and restrict shoppers to the country of their credit card’s billing address. So of you physically move country, that means scrolling to the bottom of the store window in iTunes to make the corresponding virtual relocation.
May 5, 2011 0
Apple secures iPhone location data
Panic over, Apple has released an iOS software update that makes important changes to the way location data is stored on an iPhone, iPad or iPod touch.
Only a week’s worth of data will now be stored and if you disable Location Services on the phone, all that data will be wiped. Crucially, that data is no longer copied to a Mac or PC when you sync with iTunes. So as long as your iPhone, iPod or iPad is secure, the data is safe.
Apr 22, 2011 0
A last word…
…on the iOS tracking foofaraw.
The stored tracking data does not map your precise location, as it does not use GPS. Rather, it logs the mobile/cell phone masts that your iPhone or 3G iPad connects to. The result is a map that shows trends, but also includes a lot of noise.
Apr 22, 2011 0
On the move
siPhone tracked using iPhoneTracker and the location information that the iPhone inadvertently leaves lying around (see previous posts).
Apr 21, 2011 2
A sense of perspective
The following data is stored on any smartphone: contact names, addresses and phone numbers, calls made, text messages, emails, calendars, browsing history and a whole lot more.
The fact that an iPhone records the user’s movements¹ — data that Apple neither takes nor shares — seems rather trivial in the circumstances.
Apr 21, 2011 2
Big Brother is watching you
A useful FAQ on the implications of the recent discovery that iPhones and 3G-enabled iPads keep a record of your movements, and how to protect that information: petewarden.github.com/iPhoneTracker/#faq.
