By day, is a Boston-based network research engineer. By night, he writes about the things he loves: movies at WideScreen Glory, Star Wars at Galaxy Far Away, geek stuff at Science Addiction and Apple at Apple Matters. He grew up on an Apple IIc and continues that love affair with a G4 Powerbook.
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The pundit-class in the media- you know who they are- have made a career out of making predictions based on (read more)
Using SSH: Secure Tunnels for the Common Man: Part II
In my last article, I described SSH, tunnels and why you would want to use them. Below, in the second (read more)
Using SSH: Secure Tunnels for the Common Man: Part I
In honor of the release of Chris Seibold's Big Book of Apple Hacks, here is a variation on a hack (read more)
MacPorts: Free and Open Source for the Mac
In the past, I have written a lot about the power of the OS X platform that it derives from (read more)
My 10 Current Favorite iPhone Apps
Back in September, I did my first round-up of native iPhone applications that had caught my fancy. Since then, I've (read more)
Obsessing Over iTunes: Super Smart Playlists
Welcome to the first part of my series for people who obsess about every aspect of their iTunes collection -- (read more)
iPhone Bytes
In which I contemplate losing fingers, discover the significance of the number 0.09, and ponder the philosophical question of iLife (read more)
The Wireless Showdown of 2008
Until last year, the wireless space in the United States was fairly dull. The wireless carriers such as Verizon and (read more)
Using MacFuse on OS X: Part 3
In this part of my series on MacFuse, I will discuss the installation and use of two very innovative implementations (read more)
Using MacFUSE on OSX: Part 2
In part one of my series on MacFUSE, I described what FUSE is and how it could fit into your (read more)
Showtime: Flashback
Only 5 short days ago, I wrote:
The Apple iTunes music store needed a widely used iPod, easy-to-use iTunes software (read more)
TightPod Gets Paid for Their Name
A few weeks ago, I had written about how Apple was using their legal clout to scare small companies- who (read more)
Hey, Hey 16k!
For anyone who had a computer at home back in the late 70s or early 80s, this animated video will (read more)
The Boot Camp Excuse
I recently had my first experience of a company using Boot Camp as an excuse for not supporting the Mac. (read more)
Aperture Still on Track
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about the new version of Apple’s Aperture, 1.1 and how Apple really needed (read more)