Posted on June 27, 2008 at 10:59 pm
Every Friday we publish a list of inFrequently Asked Questions and answers to help you, the Crazy Apple User, get more out of your Crazy Apple products.
Today Wikipedia answers all your questions about Numbers: Apple’s amazing spreadsheet application.
Q: Is numbers better than Excel?
A: This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title. If an [...]
Posted on June 25, 2008 at 8:35 am
With the adoption of Sproutcore, a new fancy Javascript framework, Apple has sent a message to competing “Let’s make the web look like a desktop” systems.
“Bite our already-bitten logo, open source hippie freaks!” suggested Phil Shiller. When reminded that both Flash and Silverlight were proprietary, he then cordially invited Adobe and Microsoft to “Bite our [...]
Posted on June 20, 2008 at 9:00 am
Every Friday we publish a list of inFrequently Asked Questions and answers to help you, the Crazy Apple User, get more out of your Crazy Apple products.
Today’s installment: Office-type software questions answered by “Weird Al” Yankovic.
Q: Every once in a while I need to stop making sideshows and websites about my fashionable trips to Hawaii [...]
Posted on June 18, 2008 at 1:00 pm
With a slew of new products like the iPhone 3G, Mobile Me, Snow Leopard, etc. on the horizon, people are more upset than ever with the performance of Leopard’s Time Machine backup software.
“What I want from a time machine is the ability to move around freely in time,” said Jason Patrick, who we’re pretty sure [...]
Posted on June 17, 2008 at 3:31 pm
Firefox 3, the latest version of Mozilla’s legendary open source browser, is the first of the ‘Fox dynasty to make peace with OSX.
For years Firefox on the Mac has been ugly, ugly like a duck covered in oil and thrown off the back of a truck into a pile of herring innards that have been sitting by [...]
Posted on June 13, 2008 at 10:00 pm
Every Friday we publish a list of inFrequently Asked Questions and answers to help you, the Crazy Apple User, get more out of your Crazy Apple products.
Today’s edition: the new iPhone 3G.
Q: I’ve heard the new iPhone can integrate its GPS feature with Google Maps. How does that work?
A: It works beautifully.
Q: I was glad [...]
Posted on June 11, 2008 at 1:03 pm
I mean, if the best Moltz could do is a comment about people’s Steve Jobs watching, then what do you really expect from a hack like me? WWDC conference was boring. ”Blah blah blah, we’re changing the world, bloo de bloo, iPhones are cheaper, MobileMe blah blah blah.” Come on! Where’s the news? Where’s the [...]
Posted on June 9, 2008 at 7:45 am
In keeping with the current trend in the Apple blogging community, I present the CANS predictions for WWDC: What Would Doogie Create.
Rumors of iPhones, new arctic cats and changes to mini Me aside, we predict that Apple is poised to take over yet another major market: the pastry industry. Yes, the main “one other thing” [...]
Posted on June 6, 2008 at 9:11 am
Every Friday we publish a list of inFrequently Asked Questions and answers to help you, the Crazy Apple User, get more out of your Crazy Apple products.
Today’s Edition: Terminal.
Editor’s note: Due to budget cuts, we have replaced our human iFAQ writer with a very small shell script. Specifically, a script that pipes all questions [...]
Posted on June 4, 2008 at 4:02 pm
While the “Chuck Norris Facts” thing is generally recognized as over, new research suggests that Mac users got away from the craze earlier than Windows users.
“It is suspected that Mac users are more up to date and urbane than their windows using counterparts,” noted John Hopkins of Johns Hopkins University, adding, “So Mac users wouldn’t [...]