Gordon's Notes

Our daughter is doing a semester abroad in Florence Italy so I've been looking into voice, SMS and data services. In particular the tran...

[Update 3/6/2022: After I exposed this scam I revisited our purchase history and the listing for the scam subscription had changed. Instead ...

One of the odder experiences of aging is living through technology regressions. I’ve seen a few — solutions that go away and are never repla...

This sound like quite bad if true (emphases mine) … SimpleMDM | iOS 10 MDM Enhancements To Expect … Apple plans to deprecate some non-sup...

Two articles from my share feed today … Transit systems are growing too complex for the human mind … “What makes it messy is the presen...

Our family loves our Google Calendars. Today, looking at Calendars 5.app on my iPhone , I see that our 5 (human) family members own 8 calend...

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 finally realized what I want. I don’t want an iPad. I don’t want an aWatch. I want a Zenith CruisePad for my iPhone … Rather than a ...

I expect Apple to screw up anything related to long term data management, but this is extreme even by their standards. GigaOm, in language r...

I plan to expire at 85 , 10 years later than Ezekiel Emanuel  [1]. My Dad is a bit less directed; at 92 he recently moved into the longterm ...

When I was a child, I read Alvin Toffler's 1970 book Future Shock ... ... Toffler argued that society is undergoing an enormous struc...

An  App.net thread  reminded me of some analysis I did in the 90s on what device sizes we should build our  Cloud  ASP service against. That...

I had to update to iOS 6 sooner or later, and I knew that meant the Podcast app. Still, a small part of me hoped that that it wasn't as...

I usually wait for my iPhone upgrades, but I was an early 4S adapter. That meant I used Siri when she worked . She didn't work for ver...

The new iOS connector cable. iOS 6 maps. iOS 6 Podcasts. RSS Deprecation. iTunes 11 (train coming). iCloud. Siri. Lion. Embedded webkit hole...

What I wanted from the new iPhone and Apple Ability to specify calendar colors for Exchange Server/ActiveSync calendars Water resistance ...

The US mobile market may not be quite as bleak as Canada's, but it's pretty bad. What I really want is to be able to buy a full-pric...

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...

Peter, a friend of mine, recently bought a used A&T 3GS from another friend. Since the phone's contract had passed AT&T approved...

A few months ago  NYT's Bob Tedeschi missed the iOS Porn story  - Apple's Parental Controls don't actually work . I know, for e...