I love Microsoft Excel. Unfortunately Excel on the Mac is not as easy to work with as Excel on the PC. One major difference is the lack of ODBC connections without third party software. This has caused me to look to web-based spreadsheets like Google Docs, but unfortunately those leave me wanting as [...]
Category Archives: Apple
Thoughts on Apple TV
I have had an Apple TV for a few months. There are some things I really love and some things I really loathe.
Love List
iPhone remote
Syncing movies / music with my computer
It looks amazing on my HDTV
Needs very little maintenance
I have 4 remotes (including the one on my iPhone)
Loathe List
Why can’t I stream video from the [...]
Top Five Reasons the iPhone Sucks
I have been using my iPhone as my sole mobile phone for a full month now. I think that is long enough to know why the iPhone sucks. The problem is that in some ways is it the absolute best mobile device I have ever had.
Notice I called it a mobile device and not a [...]
MacBook Touch
There are increasing rumors that the next generation of Apple laptops are going to make more use of Multi-Touch. I think it is only reasonable to speculate that it be called the MacBook Touch. This post is about what I hope this device will be. My historical record on guessing the next Apple hardware is [...]
My iPhone Experience Today
I had a 9am meeting this morning so I was not able to be one of the first in line for the iPhone. That didn’t stop me from at least checking out the festivities. Here are pictures from the Apple Store in the Green Hills Mall and the AT&T store in Green Hills:
After talking [...]
Business Intelligence on the iPhone
Oracle has released what looks to be a really great app for the iPhone.
From the iTunes App Store:
Oracle Business Indicators is a business intelligence application that provides real-time, secure access to business performance information on the mobile device.
- Requires the licensing of Oracle Business intelligence Suite, … [and a bunch of other Oracle products] … [...]
What Apple Is Really Doing With Snow Leopard
Apple has already announced that the next version of OS X will be dubbed “Snow Leopard”. It is going to be a “no new features” release, instead focusing on speed, stability, and security. Last night I realized that is not the whole story.
Apple innovates; it is what they do and I don’t think they can’t [...]
Location Based Match Making for the iPhone
I guarantee that we will see a location based match making application for the iPhone before the end of the Summer. Here is how I think it will work…
You will sign up and create a brief profile including a picture, age, and some parameters of what you are looking for (i.e. someone of the opposite [...]
iPhone 3G Achilles Heal
Did you catch what the biggest change is to the iPhone 3G?
No, it is not the namesake 3G chip and it is not push email per se.
Apple has decided to replicate a portion of BlackBerry Server. This opens the iPhone up to outages similar to the ones Blackberry users experience when the BIS/BES servers go [...]
Initial Thoughts on iPhone 2.0 and iPhone 3G
I have to admit I am excited about both iPhone 2.0 and iPhone 3G.
Those that are not quite as obsessive about mobile technology news may be wondering what the difference between iPhone 2.0 and iPhone 3G are. While they both sound like the new version of the iPhone that is not quite true. iPhone 2.0 [...]


