Apple – freedom to tinker
Apple’s recent products, especially their mobile iOS devices, are like beautiful crystal prisons, with a wide range of restrictions imposed by the OS, the hardware, and Apple’s contracts with carriers...
View ArticleDrinking while configuring a server
Sometimes I like to torture myself so I can remember why I prefer iOS– at this stage –over any other OS on the market. Wasting hours of my time, looking back and thinking, “the solution was so simple”...
View ArticleWriting, Apple and Academia
Almost launched my tiny writing project this weekend. Luckily I didn’t let my eagerness and excitement take over. Still slightly too busy to give it my full attention. But maybe within two weeks....
View Articlevi -x or 1Password
Yesterday I had one of those days where I get excited like a child on Xmas. 1Password got updated — on both OS X and iOS. Sadly the excitement didn’t last long. You see, that their encryption...
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Not sure how known this is, but I’ve just discovered that iOS apps Textastic and iA Writer, when using iCloud, allows you to access folders within a folder. You’re not able to drag & drop files to...
View ArticleI use OS X because I prefer Linux
Let that title roll around in your head for a bit. Sounds nonsensical, right? Kind of like saying you eat strawberry ice cream because you prefer chocolate ice cream. The nonsensicalness of my claim is...
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