Media - what is it good for…

Steve Jobs may or may not announce a new iPhone today and that’s important but it almost does not matter because the real power of the iPhone is the SDK and apps that get built on it.  Apple has effectively turned the iPhone into a developer platform and that has a tremendous multiplier effect on the value [...]

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I should have written an update about this long ago but better late than never.  Anyway, I solved this problem on my macbook pro by replacing the memory with “authentic” apple memory.  Costs more but apparently Apple memory is better.

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By now it’s fairly well-known that selling digital music downloads is a tough business with thin margins. However, across both online as well as brick-and-mortar retailing, music and video is being used more universally as a loss leader and it’s not clear what this trends means for content in general. For example:

for Apple, [...]

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Live Mesh was introduced yesterday by Microsoft.  It is the brain child of Ray Ozzie and really seems like an out-growth of the work he did with Groove.  At its simplest, Live Mesh is basic file sync.  But another way to think about Live Mesh is as the ultimate P2P platform.  When people think of [...]

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Backing up your data is a pain.  And so not many people do.  This is very broken in this day and age when hard drives are cheap.  Jeremy tells you why you should.  Add to this that more people have more DRM’d data on their hard drive.  In theory it’s no harder to back up [...]

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If you like Google Sketchup, it seems to now be available for the Mac. This is probably old news but I really like the program (although I should confess I don’t use it a ton). If you have not tried it you might want to since it is free. It is a [...]

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I have to apologize to the Flock folks. I have stayed away from using Flock but my random restarts persist. So Flock had nothing to do with it. So much for that theory.
Oh, I forgot, Macs never crash. It must all be a recurring hallucination. Argh….

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Om posts about Microsoft’s upcoming Zune phone (which is a rumor) and how Microsoft will surely screw its partners again. This post is not a defense of Microsoft but Om’s flogging of Microsoft gets a bit old after a while and seems naive. In this case it seems particularly goofy because the product [...]

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Just an update on my Macbook Pro troubles. I decided to pare down the applications I use to see if that would help. My conclusion is that Flock causes my MBP to crash. This is not scientific but I will refrain from using Flock and we will see how it goes. [...]

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I bought a Macbook Pro this fall for work. Nice computer except it has a serious issue. It randomly reboots. It never had this problem until after I had it for a couple of months. Such a drag. I never had a PC laptop with this kind of problem. [...]

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