Apple - Jason Burns’ Blog

Posts Tagged ‘Apple’

3 Mar 2009

So the cat is out of the bag. I have been telling the wifey to get ready for some plastic burn the day they drop new iMacs on us. I am ready to buy a new one “as soon as they announce quad-core iMacs” I said. So today the new iMacs are out and [...]

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Tags: Apple, iMac, Mac Pro

Apparently Apple needs your serial number, social security number and a tissue sample to sell you a WiFi card…

In: Technology

17 Feb 2009

Our new house isn’t as “wired” as I would like it to be. In judging the many options to bridge the gaps and make sure that I have internet access everywhere, I decided that my recording studio would be only connected to the network via WiFi. I hopped in the car to head for [...]

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Tags: Apple

Does Apple Monitor the Apple Support Forums At All?

In: Online

18 Jan 2009

Now I have had this hunch for quite a while. I am not sure what experiences other people have had, but despite the “it just works” marketing hoopla, many times our Macs don’t just work. In recent memory I have had problems in OS X, Logic, iTunes and iPhoto just to name a few. These [...]

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Tags: Apple, iPhone, iTunes

Is Windows 7 Aero Peek a copy of Apple Expose?

In: Technology

11 Jan 2009

A few of my Mac centric friends saw my blog post on Windows 7 and said that Aero Peek ripped off Apple’s Expose. Let’s make this clear, I have 3 Macs running OS X Leopard, I use them all of them time, and I think that makes me pretty credible to judge Mac OS X [...]

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Tags: Apple, Mac, Microsoft, OS X, Windows

Macworld must be freaking out….

In: Technology

30 Dec 2008

I am getting so many emails trying to get me to go to MacWorld, 3-5 a week. They must be really hurting for attendance. Is anyone else going? Did anyone cancel after the Apple news? Is it over?

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Tags: Apple, Macworld

The Mobile Wars are in full effect, do we really want the iPhone to “Win?”

In: Technology

30 Oct 2008

Funny little question isn’t it? Coming from someone who loves Apple products and thinks the iPhone is one Gee Golly Whiz Bang product, why would I say I sincerely hope that the iPhone doesn’t take a dominant market share and force other players out of the market? It’s simple. Have you ever heard of [...]

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Tags: Apple, iPhone

Apple, now the obnoxious asshole from your high school reunion.

In: Humor

20 Oct 2008

You know the drill, there was the guy that was kind of dweebish in high school. Not too many friends, got picked on for his forward thinking style (Chucks before they were cool kind of thing) and his penchant for out of mainstream music and insisting on listening to vinyl instead of CD.
Fast-forward to [...]

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Tags: Apple, Mac, Windows

The Beast is Home! The new MacPro Workstation…

In: Technology

13 Sep 2008

So it’s here, my beast. I went and picked it up this morning and got it all set up, now I am installing Logic Studio on it. What is it you ask? An Apple Mac Pro, Dual 2.8Ghz Quad Core Xeon, 6GB of Ram (10GB when they get more in stock), a 320GB and [...]

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Tags: Apple, MacPro

Apple Aperture…RAW productivity boost (excuse the pun)

In: Photography

19 Aug 2008

I have been into digital photography since 2003. I first started messing with RAW then using Phase One’s Capture One software. At the time I was shooting with one of the original Canon Digital Rebels and printing large prints. The ability to tweak the RAW photos in Capture One was an obvious advantage, but [...]

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Tags: Aperture, Apple, Photography

The Philocast HD: Apple’s Logic Express

In: Music

25 Jun 2008

Philocast HD: Apple Logic Express from Jason Burns on Vimeo.

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Tags: Apple

A Peaceful Coexistence of Operating Systems (Vista and Leopard)

In: Random

26 May 2008

I would venture to say that given this site’s general topic of OS Agnostic computing, I know more than most the arguments for and against these two titan operating systems. The arguments against Vista are legendary. I have made no secret of the fact that I started carrying a Macbook Pro in September of last [...]

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Tags: Apple, Leopard, Mac, Microsoft, OS X, Tiger, Vista, Windows, XP

A personal message to Steve Jobs…

In: Random

10 May 2008

I do not, I repeat, I DO NOT WANT SAFARI FOR WINDOWS!
I am so tired of closing update notifications on all my PCs! Just because I use iTunes everywhere I have to pay the Safari tax? No thanks…

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Tags: Apple, Mac, Safari

Why is buying RAM from Apple like buying a ham sandwich at the airport?

In: Technology

18 Apr 2008

Correct me if I am wrong, but every human has an innate ability to estimate the worth of a ham sandwich. I mean, if someone handed you one, and you were from Albania, and had been here for two days……even with your sketchy idea of the conversion rate, you probably wouldn’t think it costs $12. [...]

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Tags: Apple

Safari, the browser hijacker?

In: Online

18 Apr 2008

I know I posted this before, but I was leaving a comment on an article today and I feel compelled to blog my comment…
@MasterofOpera.. you WANT Quicktime? Wow…. I blogged about this awhile back, now admittedly, I work for Microsoft, so I will probably get smacked for being totally uncredible, but I do carry a [...]

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Tags: Apple, Safari

Mac users give Mac a bad name….

In: Technology

7 Apr 2008

Net4Mac.com, a new social networking site for Mac users (as if that wasn’t a bad enough business model as it is, decided that supporting IE at all is just pointless.
Now I don’t know if it’s not supported because their web devs are too lazy to make it happen, unable to manage it from a tech [...]