Posts with tag: Apple
Amusing Live Search result for Engadget
Certainly no one can ping Microsoft’s Live Search for weighting down anything fruit-related.
Leopard 10.5.2: external USB drive crashes Finder, possible fix
Yeah, I’ve been contending with Leopard / 10.5.2 since certain external USB drives began crashing Finder endlessly (until they’re yanked and Finder springs back to life). Using the Console app, I traced the issue back to this core error message from com.apple.launchd: com.apple.finder Exited abnormally: Bus error. I happened upon a solution that seems to [...]
The real reason fanboys hate tech reporters
Farhad Manjoo had me at “On hot-button issues — the Israeli-Palestinian conflict or the Mac-PC divide — we’re quick to see bias in even the most objective news.” He’s penned a solid read about that pestering bit which really ought not be as prevalent as it actually is in the wonderful field of writing about [...]
Questioning iPhone SIM unlocking on the App Store: is the obvious unimportant?
Funny thing, I’ve been getting some small bit of, um, commentary today for asking Steve Jobs a question we all well know the answer to: would Apple allow its developer community to disseminate SIM unlock software on the App Store? I guess the criticism is that it’s a wasted question and a lapse of journalistic [...]
The iPhone’s long-missing two-pane email client
So I was looking over my Macworld 2007 keynote coverage the other day and noticed something just about everyone — myself included — glossed over as the months passed between its January introduction and June launch: the iPhone once had a two-pane email client. (You can even see the view mode selector up top! This [...]
Back from CES, at Macworld tomorrow!
What a crazy fun couple of weeks. Back from CES with the same illness I had before shipping out (isn’t that always the way?); the team was a sight to behold, absolutely a well-oiled machine. I really can’t thank this crew enough for making Engadget possible. Such amazing people, unbelievable. Be sure to check us [...]
Ten Macworld 2008 predictions
I can always tell the holidays are closing in when it becomes such that a day doesn’t goes by I’m not asked at least a few times what inside dope I’ve got on what Apple’s introducing at Macworld. My stock response is (and always will be), “Everything I know is published on Engadget.” Now, I’m [...]
Leopard: disable “Open with” previous versions of applications in Time Machine?
So Leopard does this really clever thing where, if you don’t exclude it from making backups of your Applications directory, it will let you do a right click / “open with” and select previous versions of apps Time Machine has backed up. The rub: you can’t turn it off, and if your Time Machine drive [...]
Guess what’s going to win 2007 Gadget of the Year
Today I kicked off possibly my favorite Engadget activity of the year and opened up nominations for the 2007 Engadget Awards. Part of the rules of nominating a gadget for the award, though — as outlined TWICE in bold text — is that you shouldn’t nominate the same gadget more than once. Most people don’t, [...]
Scoble vs. Apple
Scoble’s Mac crashed, Scoble rants — par for the course. (Earlier this year he had it out for me, too, but cooler heads prevailed.) But he did bring up a lot of interesting points, some sound, some not. Robert, as someone in the media who works with Apple (just as I work with dozens, if [...]
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