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The iPhone and your IT Department.
Jun 19th
I just finished reading and article from The Wallstreet Journal titled “Companies Hang Up on Apple’s iPhone”.
It focuses on an IT directors point of view on the iPhone. The problem with this article is the title. Companies are not Hanging Up on Apple’s iPhone, lazy IT departments are.
The article is misleading because they’re not asking the people who run the companies.
When any company President says he wants an iPhone to work with the company email, the IT department will have no choice but to figure out how to make it work.
I’ve worked with small minded IT people like this, they think they can dictate the direction of change in the company. When in reality they don’t have any power when an executive wants something.
Think about the fact that Steve Jobs (Apple), Eric Schmidt (Google) and Jerry Yang (Yahoo), the CEOs for some of the most important companies on the planet will be using their iPhones with their companies email.
What can you do without electricity? Nothing useful.
May 21st
Normally when my neighborhood is without power I’ll blog about how I can blog when the power is out.
Because I keep my router and modem on battery backup. But this time I lost power and my internet connection.
So I can open my blogging app on my MacBook and type this post but it isn’t going anywhere til my Internet comes back up.
Here’s a list of things that you realize became more difficult without power:
1 Opening the garage door.
2 Getting ice from the ice machine.
3 Getting the flashlights from your basement.
4 Going to the restroom.
5 Reading a book.
6 Tucking your kid back into bed.
Why is it when you’re without power you feel the need to do something that requires it?
I’ve never owned a stand alone DVD player, have you?
Dec 24th
I’ve never owned a stand alone DVD payer, we got one for my daughter several years ago but she was the only one that used it.
So how did I play DVDs? Let’s start with the list.
1. 1999 iMac with built in DVD player, no remote. First DVD, The Matrix.
2. 2000 PowerBook with S-video out to my TV, no remote.
2. 2001 Playstation 2 with 3rd party remote.
3. 2002-2005 Xbox with DVD remote.
4. 2006-current Xbox 360 with extended remote.
So what’s next? Well as long as my game systems play DVDs I won’t need one.
I plan on getting a Wii which doesn’t play DVDs, but that’s OK since I’m not giving up my 360.
Some tech doesn’t die quickly enough.
Oct 3rd
As a tech support person I have to deal with a lot of software and hardware. And sometimes that tech has outlived its usefulness.
Yeah, they might still be using it. But, none of the original companies are still supporting it. I’m supporting it, but it’s getting more difficult.
I’m talking about Mac OS 9. And why do I still have to mess with SCSI? It happens.
Steve Jobs said Mac OS 9 was dead in 2002, so apparantly I’m kicking a dead horse.
Don’t get me started on fax machines. Really, do we still need those things? Put VCRs in that same category.
My entire neighborhood is without power.
Jan 12th
But since I have a nice size battery backup and only have my cable modem and router hooked up to it I should be able to surf for hours, assuming my PowerBook doesn’t die first.
I need big batteries for everything.
New Scanner
Jan 19th
I finally got myself a new scanner.
I’ve been scanning the world (everything), it’s nice to have a scanner that can do negatives as well. The problem is that once you start scanning you can’t stop because you’re that much closer to having all of the memories on your computer.
And having them on your computer (for me at least) is the only way I really want to keep them. I can’t wait till I can have all of my movies on my computer as well.
Apple’s Operating System Strategy March 1997
Mar 1st
This 1997 video is narrated by Jim Gable V.P. ApplSoft Marketing. Here’s a list of the topics covered in this video, Mac OS 7.6, Mac Runtime for Java, QuickTime VR 2.0, Rhapsody, Tempo, Allegro, Sonata and NeXT. With a video clip of Steve Jobs at MacWorld 97 San Francisco.
