Why can’t Apple just synchronize our photo metadata via iCloud?

Computer networks were revolutionary in the 1980s, but they’re required today.

When using the old computers I have, the first thing I discovered is that nothing on the web works in old browsers anymore. The old browsers can’t do modern SSL, PNG graphics, CSS or most HTML. So, in an effort to make the internet usable, I built legacyproxy. I mainly targeted Netscape 1.1N and it has some triggers for its specific User-Agent. To get started, you just configure the browser’s HTTP Proxy to point to a running instance of the legacyproxy. [ Read More… ]

Beyond the original Macintosh computers I have working, I assembled a few alternative Macintoshes using Raspberry Pis to emulate the old hardware.

I have a few old computers in my basement. They are mostly old Macintosh computers, starting with my first ever computer, a Macintosh LC. I started evaluating which ones I should keep by making sure they still work.

I had a dream where I was working on hacking on something with another person, I had apparently travelled to the past, since I still had on an Apple Watch, but it said the year was 2003. While hacking on whatever it was, I had the idea to download Linux, but then I remembered it wasn’t released yet. There were all sorts of things that don’t make sense in the dream: my Apple Watch face doesn’t show the year, nor is there a way to show it and Linux certainly had been released. [ Read More… ]

I recently got a drive enclosure that allows it to be connected via eSATA or USB2. I got a nifty ExpressCard eSATA adapter for my MacBook Pro since eSATA is theoretically faster. Guess what? It is a lot faster!

In response to my co-worker Brandon’s recent post about his computer upgrades… and possibly a little follow-up to my previous post about the MacBook Air…

Apple just released their super slim MacBook Air. I got to thinking, this is perfect, it’s super portable, you can carry it around easily and keep in touch wirelessly from your couch, coffee shop, et c. It doesn’t have the real power of a full-blown computer, so you probably would be able to do all your work on it. Instead, it is perfect to read email, browse the web, look at pictures, maybe some other stuff.