Category Archives: Tech Kit

The right tool for the job is the guiding principle for how we choose cars, homes, and computers. With greater awareness of the job, and our own skill sets, we gradually learn what tool best matches what job. In 2010, iPhone 4 removed my need to carry around four separate tools: a ridiculous Samsung OmniaContinue reading “Two Loves: Mac or Pad?”

The recent advance of iPad into laptop functionality is the death of the original necessities which allowed the iPad to create a new market, and it also indicates that traditional Wintels are in deep trouble. The move from iPad being an iCloud and Internet-focussed device, to being a mouse-driven, personal computer, is Apple’s response toContinue reading “The Death of iPad, the Death of Computers”

iPadOS Well, it seems to me that Microsoft, Google, and all of China are full of complete idiots. Europe can collectively be thrown into this hodge-podge bag of useless idiots too. Or perhaps I’m over-estimating the percentage of the human population which is capable of truely creative engineering innovation… Microsoft’s contribution to modern computing isContinue reading “Consumption Device becomes Consuming Device”

Apple Computer The History of the Macintosh In 1978, the Apple Lisa began development as the embodiment of applied and humanised computing being demonstrated at Xerox Parc. Steve Jobs was in charge of this expensive failure, and saw his first GUI-based computing solution out-performed by the Macintosh. Jef Raskin began the Mac project in 1979Continue reading “The History of the Macintosh”