Gordon's Notes

I don’t think Mac users should switch, but I can’t recommend any newbies join MacShip. Aperture users abandoned. Sierra’s scary data shifti...

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

This is a weird time in software. Lots of things are going away, but few new things are appearing. As best I can tell Windows software died...

In an alternate universe…. Today in a terse but clear posting on the Aperture web site Tim Cook apologized for the difficult decision to e...

A  few weeks ago my primary drive began to fail . This was painful because the recovery process exposed lots of rusty plumbing, but I was ne...

I was in an Apple Store yesterday with a burned-through seven year old power adapter cable . Our much abused power adapter came with a Mac...

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 have just returned from a conference where I ran R and Python code on my 11" MacBook Air. It did the job well; Mountain Lion's Fu...

In an otherwise uncontroversial rant about Apple's net service reliability failures I came across a glaring bit of conventional stupidit...

When something goes wrong on a computer, we all turn to Google.  Almost all. I suppose Apple employees have to use Bing. I can usually fin...

Apple's margins disappointed today, and the stock dropped. Coincidentally, I just ordered a Nexus 7 for $200.   Or maybe that's n...

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...

Marco Arment, builder of a respected OS X app, writes Three Things That Should Trouble Apple – Marco.org :  ... Apple’s software quality...

In 3 days I've tackled three monster Apple bugs . One is with Apple ID infrastructure, one with Image Capture in Snow Leopard, and a...

I've editing a summary post on my challenging   iPhoto to Aperture migration . That's made me wonder, again, where  Aperture 1.0  ca...

iPhoto is dying. That much is clear. iPhoto 11's launch bug problems followed the pattern of the  past decade . Unlike past releases t...

I thought of John Halamka was a fairly careful writer, so this comment caught my eye (emphases mine): Life as a Healthcare CIO: The Joy of...

Jobs was the best salesman of the past 50 years. I wonder, though, if deep down he knew what was real and what was not. His Heirs don'...

Every review I read uses OS X iCal and Address Book as examples of the worst aspects of Lion. This one is from Macintouch... (emphases mine)...

Even I have to admit some things have gotten better over the pasts decade. Digital cameras are one. Aperture 3 is another (but iPhoto 11 is ...