Fooled by marketing – again A lot of people believe that their camera phone is actually a camera. They assume that a mobile phone with 3.2 megapixels and a Carl Zeiss lens is a great camera. Film based cameras compared to digital cameras I think it is fair to compare an analogue and a digital [...]

image © Apple Different places, different needs Startup Items lets you open the same applications every time you log in, but that is not necessarily what you want. I have different uses for my MacBook Pro depending on where I am, and I want different programs started and different servers mounted at work than I [...]

Technology often acts really strange, and sometimes makes us act strange too. My three year old Powerbook G4 suddenly got into the habit of turning itself off a few seconds after I turned it on. Technical support told me it’s probably a failure in the power management unit that makes it sensitive to heat. Since [...]