Despite The Rizland Observer’s tag line, it seems we have much to talk about Apple and Macintosh lately. Reading the Feeds the other day I stumbled upon an article by Mr Bryan Gardiner on Wired’s Gadgets/Mac section, called Learning From Failure: Apple’s Most Notorious Flops. The short, eight-part piece was written on January 24, on [...]
Archive for January, 2008
A brief retrospective on failures
Posted in Newton never dies, Welcome to Macintosh, feedback, tagged PowerMac G4 Cube on January 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A partial relationship
Posted in Welcome to Macintosh, tagged Cinema Display, MacBook Air on January 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The other day I was considering the whole MacBook Air affair, while reading here and there more criticism about its apparent closure to the outside, wired world. Then a thought struck me: connecting the MacBook Air to an Apple Cinema Display could be a nice step up in regard to expansibility. Those displays have, in [...]
Let’s add Air
Posted in Welcome to Macintosh, tagged MacBook Air on January 17, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Judging by the post-keynote debate on some mailing lists monitored by The Rizland Observer and someweb else, Air not only has been the Macworld expo keyword and a key component in the name of the newborn member of the MacBook family. Air also seems to be the main constituent of the chatter surrounding the MacBook [...]
Where keyboard shortcuts may lose a little bit
Posted in Welcome to Macintosh, tagged keyboard on January 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I wanted to add a glimpse of personal experience in the discussion about what is faster (or perceived so), the mouse or the keyboard. In a recent article entitled Where keyboard shortcuts win, John Gruber, catching a remark in this post by Tim Bray, revives the matter, started by Bruce Tognazzini’s original analysis published in [...]
Worth mentioning
Posted in Welcome to Macintosh, feedback on January 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The new year has started fine here at the Rizland offices. First, I would like to spend some words about a positive experience with XtremeMac. My wife has been given a 16 GB iPod touch for Christmas (she received it much earlier, though, around the beginning of December) and I decided to buy her a [...]
