Category archive for ‘TECH’ rss

  • I’m Not a Mac #6–OS X Elements I’d Like to Take With Me

    11/22/09 • (6)

    But there are elements of Mac OS X I love. They won’t motivate me to stick with the operating system, but I’d sure like to take them with me when I finish migrating to a new OS. Primary among them is Time Machine, Apple’s point-and-click, behind-the-scenes backup functionality.

  • I’m Not a Mac #5–What Windows Users Think of Mac Users (Video)

    11/15/09 • (15)

    Many of them have expressed shock, anger, and in the case of the AngryMacBastards podcast, a desire to ‘put a bullet’ in my head for writing publicly about my disillusionment with Apple Computer.

  • I’m Not a Mac #4–Control Issues: Why Apple Doesn’t Want You to Use Linux

    11/12/09 • (69)

    I dove into Linux at the suggestion of several commenters who urged me to take a look at the open-source end of the OS world before deciding to go over to the Microsoft dark side. Why not? I figured. One-half of my goal is never again to have to pay several hundred extra dollars for specially branded hardware just to run my OS of choice, and the other half is to remove myself from Steve Jobs’ heavy-handed control of the applications I choose to install there.

  • I’m Not a Mac #3–Jailbreak on the Journey from Apple: My Continuing Migration from Mac

    11/06/09 • (16)

    While I continue on my way out the OS X door, I’d like to respond to the commenters who let me know in no uncertain terms that they don’t agree with my opinions about the Mac platform. Tough.

  • I’m Not a Mac #2–I Am a Future PC: Why I’m Dumping Apple after 15 Years

    11/04/09 • (104)

    I am a future Windows PC user and that is that. After a 15-year relationship with all things Apple, I’ve finally had it with the Steve Jobs ‘you’ll use your computer they way we tell you to use your computer’ method of customer relations.

  • All Hooked Up for No Place to Go

    9/14/09 • (4)

    Three months almost to the day since the first wave of my technological migration, I’m proud to complete my transition to the modern age. Give or take a couple years.

  • I’m Not a Mac #1–The Great Migration

    6/19/09 • (9)

    This Apple fan has officially downsized his digital life and I couldn’t be happier. For the first time since the mid-1990s, I’m down to one phone number and one email address. I know, I can’t believe it, either. I’m officially calling Wednesday, June 17th, 2009, the date of my long-needed virtual house cleaning.

  • “I’m Not a Mac” Series Intro

    6/19/09 • (0)

    After 15 years of being a faithful Apple Mac fan, in 2009 I changed my mind. I realized I was living the Apple user life you never get to see in a ‘Get a Mac’ ad, controlled by a computer company set on telling me how I was allowed to use its products and how I wasn’t. So one day I decided to say ‘No’…

  • Round Building, Round Phone Jack

    10/29/05 • (1)

    The good news: Marina City has 1960s state-of-the-art architecture. The bad news: Marina City has 1960s state-of-the-art technology.