Gordon's Notes

If you’ve ever wondered why healthcare institutions can’t easily share data between computer systems, just take a look at Calendaring in iOS...

I used Pacifist to install Airport Utility 5.6 when I upgraded to Mountain Lion . So I didn't really notice how many features Apple remo...

Over the two years Google has knifed a number of open net protocols , including CalDAV, RSS, XMPP, Atom and CardDAV and they split Chrome fr...

The Google-Apple war continues, but it's dwarfed by the wireless war that started when Verizon and ATT used price signaling to become Ve...

I finally read the entire How Microsoft Lost Its Mojo Vanity Fair article. It's worth a read for all geeks over 40, despite some obviou...

I grew up in a bipolar world. Yes, the USSR vs. USA, but also the bipolar world of Microsoft and Apple. One was ruthless and ruled by corpo...

Via  Daring Fireball Linked List ... Google Atmosphere or “Admosphere”? - Why Microsoft .. More importantly, with advertising revenue (a...

Top end of the scale is 15. It's a linear scale. My personal scale rates large for-profit corporations. CARE International is provided ...

Steve M was* a master Healer and Teacher at the Upper Peninsula Health Education Corporation (UPHEC), but his true love was HyperCard. He sh...

The Google-Apple war officially ended in September . I've not seen any convincing explanation of why the war ended; my best guess is tha...

We are way past the tipping point if the no contract $149 Android phone is real [1]. The replacement for the $150 ChromeOS Netbook has com...

Jean-Louis Gassée   blogs on Monday Note . He’s been doing it since Feb 4, 2008 . Gassée has done many things, but he’s best known for ha...

I've been having OS X issues lately, so I've spent time in the Console (yes, the days of full function OSs are limited). I liked thi...

On XP I can get "stuck windows" when I move my laptop between displays. These are windows that I can't resize, because they...

Top end of the scale is 15. It's a linear scale. Philip Morris: 15 Exxon: 13 (see link to #1 ) Goldman Sachs: 12 Facebook: 12 For profit...

OS X was supposed to have had resolution independence 3 years ago . Apple failed. I've been told by a real world user that Windows 7 res...

Maybe the name was intended as a warning. Microsoft "Danger", formerly independent creators of the Sidekick Cloud-centric phone, d...

I tried OS X screen sharing again today. I do this every few months, to remind myself how badly OS X screen sharing sucks . Yeah, I'm on...

Apple's problem is that Steve Jobs decides what we need. Microsoft's problem is that it should have been split into several competin...

How can it be that the vast majority of my fellow bloviators are ignoring what Google is saying here … Google CEO Schmidt Thought Build...