Impressions, Experiences, Opinions

Notes from a Lion crash-test dummy

July 22, 2011

I installed Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Wednesday afternoon, on my clone drive, and played with it until about 11pm. Yesterday I installed it on my main drive, and struggled for a while. It turns out that Glims made Safari very unstable, and when I figured that out, the constant crashes stopped. Updating Default Folder [...]

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Samsung offering Galaxy S phones to frustrated iPhone 4 users

July 24, 2010

This page really spells it out, but the upshot is that Samsung is taking a gamble, contacting anyone who vents their frustration about the iPhone 4 with an offer for a free Samsung Galaxy s smartphone (big screen, Android 2.1 OS) to replace the iPhone 4. Since Apple will give a full refund for iPhone [...]

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One Man’s impression of the iPhone 4

July 1, 2010

David Trevelyan, the well-known sculptor and graphic artist currently living in Ubud, Bali, emailed me his impressions of the new iPhone 4: The iPhone 4; Im feeling like a Neanderthal. The new iPhone 4 – I had some profound feelings. The first one was amazement as to what humans are capable of conceiving / engineering,; [...]

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