Tag: Apple

  • Hackintoshes are kinda legal

    Well it seems after settling with Pystar, it seems that Apple is not really that annoyed with geeks who would want to try to install OSX on their own onto machines that are not from Apple. Afterall, the company did start in a garage, so it would only make sense that efforts to maintain good…

  • It’s about the apps…

    Many people have been noticing for a while now that the mobile telcos have been promoting the apps that run on their phones as opposed to the OS, or even the specific device. I have no doubt, this was inspired by Apple, and the App Store, but it seems to have spread rather handily to…

  • Stalled install

    Well, trying to install 10.6 on my 2006 17″ Macbook Pro resulted in this black – well almost black screen. It seems that the backlight just didn’t want to come on, so using a flashlight to see what was on the screen, I was able to get things going (as I thumb this out). So…

  • Fruit is in the trees – the Apple tablet in Education

    Christopher Dawson over at ZD Education posted today about the rumoured Apple table, he’s not the only, first or last individual to do so I would imagine. But his take on it is that it will be a non starter in Education without textbook publishers onboard to provide app versions of their content. It seems…

  • 4 years, 1774 posts… and it keeps going

    Today my blogging effort – in any serious form turns 4. Four years has certainly seen quite a bit of change for me personally and professionally and it has seen all manner of change for technology and well some of it has made it’s way to the classroom in either k-12 or higher ed. So…