by Jeffery Battersby | Oct 6, 2010 | Commentary, Featured
Good, interesting, and important piece at Macworld.com by Kirk McElhearn about a much-needed, centralized iTunes server. I just want to add one more point. iTunes Home Sharing, in my opinion, fails in one very significant way, and that has to do with how it works with...
by Jeffery Battersby | Aug 9, 2010 | Commentary
Paul Krugman, in his op-ed America Goes Dark @ NYTimes.com, laments the fact that budget constraints are causing problems for local municipalities. While I agree with Krugman on one point, I don’t want to replace my city’s paved roads with dirt roads, I...
by Jeffery Battersby | Jul 2, 2010 | Commentary
Jesse Grosjean has posted a note on his Hog Bay Software Blog talking about what’s coming for WriteRoom and why the WriteRoom app has been, as he put it, “languishing.” Everything good and bad about Hog Bay Software is because it’s just me. I don’t...
by Jeffery Battersby | Jun 2, 2010 | Commentary
Reihan Salam, at the Daily Beast, on the now tired saw that Apple just can’t and won’t be all it can be if and when Steve Jobs someday steps down from the help of the company, complete with the usual tried and true tales of woe… Apple Inc. might be...
by Jeffery Battersby | Apr 21, 2010 | Commentary, Featured, iPad, On miPod
Embracing the digital book | via Craig Mod Another excellent, insightful piece by Craig Mod on the current state of e-book readers and what they should aspire to be. Physical books and e-books are both text at their cores. Book designers long ago established rigorous...
by Jeffery Battersby | Apr 19, 2010 | Commentary, Featured
Early last winter, shortly after one of the first snowstorms of the season, as my son was walking home from school, he came across an iPod Touch buried in a snow bank. An amazing find for a boy of 11. Kind of a dream come true. And as the saying goes… finders,...
