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    The New iPad Report: Getting Caught Up in the Wrong Specs

    March 20th, 2012

    Apple tends to release little more than bare-bones specs for most of their mobile products. Beyond basic dimensions, battery life, and supported multimedia formats, there’s not a lot to find. That requires some heavy lifting by others to determine, and sometimes you wonder if they’re looking at the wrong things. First there’s the inevitable teardown. […]


    Flip Becomes a Flop

    April 13th, 2011

    I remember a few years ago when I got a press release about a neat miniature camcorder, the Flip, from a company known as Pure Digital. I quickly asked for a review sample. Sure enough, it was easy to use, took reasonably decent videos, and the software worked quite well with either a Mac or […]


    Using Alleged New Cases to Unearth Apple Secrets

    December 24th, 2010

    The search to discover secrets about Apple’s latest and greatest gadgets has reached a fever pitch. You almost think some people are examining the trash bins in the vicinity of the Apple campus in Cupertino, CA for telltale evidence of what they’re working on. Of course, physical documents would be shredded as a matter of […]


    Newsletter Issue #525: The iMac Report: Some Tiny Irritants

    December 20th, 2009

    In a little over two and a half weeks since first setting up a 27-inch iMac, custom ordered with the Intel quad-core i7 processor, I have to say that I’m not suffering from any of those niggling bugs reported by some. The images don’t flicker, there’s no band of yellow or other indications of potentially […]