Category Archives: Mac

An Apple A Day…

Posted on June 11, 2012 by Orren

Apple has officially begun its World Wide Developer’s Conference (which I believe sold out before it even went on sale, due to some developers having time machines). With the new conference, comes the new Keynote address, and with it, the … Continue reading →

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Apple, OSes, and Facebooks

Posted on February 17, 2012 by Orren

I pretty much gave my thoughts about the OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion preview in my post yesterday. There’s no need for me to rehash that, but I did want to add two more bits and bobs. First, this video … Continue reading →

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The iOS-ification of OS X continues

Posted on February 16, 2012 by Orren

Today Apple unveiled a sneak peak of it’s forthcoming update to Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, named OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion. The micro-site includes a promo video that offers an introduction to all the new Mac OS X apps … Continue reading →

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New OSes, new iClouds

Posted on October 15, 2011 by Orren

It’s been a while since I’ve rambled here, but I wanted to have a few days to let things settle for a while. Wednesday, Apple released iOS 5, along with iCloud. To take advantage of iCloud, all of my Macs … Continue reading →

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The dog gets a new iMac

Posted on June 17, 2011 by Orren

After we walked Luna at the park this morning, we found a FedEx tag on our door. We’d just missed a delivery. But as luck would have it, we had another little package that the FedEx delivery person had forgotten … Continue reading →

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Lions and iOSes and iClouds, oh my

Posted on June 6, 2011 by Orren

The techy among us already know that there’s a conference going on in San Francisco for developers of Mac OS X and iOS called the World Wide Developers Conference, run by Apple. Typically, Apple uses the keynote address to roll … Continue reading →

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The 10 most Mac-friendly countries on the planet

Posted on March 16, 2011 by Orren

I use pingdom to give me statistics on orrenmerton.com, and a friend pointed out this blog entry to me. If you’re a Mac user, you might be curious what the 10 most Mac-friendly countries on the planet are. And here’s … Continue reading →

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The Nerdette’s new workstation in action

Posted on January 30, 2011 by Orren

Okay, one more iMac-related post. This is how The Nerdette has her workstation set up: The lower device is her Cintiq graphics tablet; that’s where she does her drawing. And it’s also set up as her second monitor underneath the … Continue reading →

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Michelle’s new shiny

Posted on January 29, 2011 by Orren

Lookie here–The Nerdette got a shiny new iMac! I have to say, the screen is absolutely gorgeous. This isn’t even the fastest model but it still is some 4-5 times faster than the going-on-six-year-old computer she was using. And as … Continue reading →

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Owning a Mac is like following the Grateful Dead

Posted on November 28, 2010 by Orren

Music industry analyst Bob Lefsetz likes to apply “life lessons” and examples from other industries to the music industry. His recent blog entry “Customer Care” explains an Apple customer support experience of his, and ends with the above comparison. It’s … Continue reading →

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