NPR This American Life episode partially fabricated

The Unofficial Apple Weblog is reporting that NPR’s “This American Life” episode that covered the FoxConn iPad factories was partially fabricated. This American Life host Ira Glass was understandably upset, saying that “Daisey lied to me and to This American Life producer Brian Reed during the fact checking we did on the story, before it […]

Windows More Secure Than OS X

Here’s another person that wants to debate, without putting anything on the table to debate with.  His argument, since Black Hat says that Windows is More Secure Than OS X, it must be so. Well, here is my reply. Reality obviously disagrees with you.  First of all, you show absolutely no evidence to back up your […]

100,000 choices now available on Apple’s iPad App Store

There are now more than 100,000 applications available on the iPad App Store written specifically for the 9.7-inch display found on Apple’s touchscreen tablet. Apple crossed the six-figure milestone this week, a fact that was first noted by MacStories. The total applies to software written for the iPad, and does not include iPhone applications, which […]

Gremlins!

Darn those gremlins. I have activated CloudFlare for this website, and I missed a DNS setting for the S3 cache for the server. I believe everything should be working fine now..  But I hate the fact that, presumably due to caching, everything was looking fine until late tonight…

What Microsoft Can Learn From Mac OS X Lion

Amazingly enough, Paul Thurrott’s supersite for Windows, actually has a positive piece about Apple… I’ve harped on this a lot in the past, but in a bid to maximize profits, Microsoft has littered the market with far too many Windows product versions, or what the company calls SKUs (for “stock keeping unit,” retailing term). And […]

Insteon devices are internally fused? (No, they are not!)

Myth: I have found that most, and possibly all*, Insteon “Bricks” are fused internally. The Truth: This is not true. In fact, most INSTEON products are not internally fused. The ApplianceLinc, PowerLinc Modems, and PowerLinc Controllers contain no fuses. There are also no designed-in fusible links within the components or circuit board(s).  (Fusible links, means […]