Posts by Inkling

Notice that big, ugly, hard-to-disconnect Ethernet port. Why Apple doesn't create a replacement along the lines of the MagSafe connector and open source it to the world is beyond me. A simple adapter would ensure backward compatibility...

Personally, I'd like to be free to choose to experience a web not dominated by Flash's many woes. If Steve Jobs can make that happen, more power to him. Safari on my iMac used to crash about twice a week. Hearing that Flash was the...

To understand this administration's seeming interest Apple's move into online advertising, it helps to look at the early, large, and very one-sided donations that Google made to Obama's political campaign-donations on a far greater scale...

Yes, but are iPod touch users going to get an equally effective camera? There are a lot of us who don't want or can't justify AT&T's pricey plan who'd like a productivity device with a decent camera. If nothing else, create a...

Why wait for scuttlebutt to develop around the effectiveness of the newly placed WiFi antenna? There are antenna testing facilities with turntables that rotate. Comparisons of different Apple products, both the range and antenna pattern,...

It'd be helpful if authors of books being displayed on iBook could include ads just like developers.

When you get a chance, you might want to see if the iPad works with the mini Bluetooth-compliant keyboards that are being sold on eBay for about $20. They're much more compact than a standard Bluetooth keyboard. For those used to typing...

The good that may come out of this: 1. Apple will have powerful competition. 2. More sources mean more book choices. 3. If Apple refuses to sell a book because it criticizes Steve Jobs or a pet Apple cause, Amazon will have...

I wonder if they'll fix my #1 gripe with Snow Leopard. It wakes up printers, cycling on the heater in laser printers, when users select File-Print, even when all we want to do is write a PDF file to disk.

Is stupidity part of the job description for working in the Apple department that screens and blacklists iPhone apps. There seems to be no other explanation for its behavior. Do Wi-Fi scanners have "minimum user...