My Macinations

Yet another mac user’s blog

Today Apple announced the new MacBook Pros (13″, 15″ and 17″) with the new Thunderbolt connectors. I didn’t expect thunderbolt (aka lightpeek) to be released so early. It’s a great step up for a new generation of connectors. Hopefully, we’ll get a lot of peripherals with it, especially hard drives. USB has always sucked for [...]

Apple reported sales of 7.33 Million iPads, 16.23 Million iPhones and 9.8 Million iPod touch. With 92 days in the quarter from October to December, it means that Apple activated over 362,000 iOS devices per day on average. Although Apple doesn’t break down its iPod sales by type, from the price average per iPod ($176) [...]

I never believed it before, but today I experienced its suckiness for myself. iDisk sucks for big files, especially disk images.

For the first time ever, since I started using Macs (back in 1985) I face an installation problem with an Apple package. Last night, iTunes 10.1.1 showed up in Software Update and I told it to install it. When the installation process finished, the installer tried launching iTunes and it failed with a missing dynamic [...]

A while back, I decided to switch from Google as the default search engine to Bing. I did for a while and was forced to switch back because of Bing’s censorship policies.