I have been developing web content for around 13 years. During that time a lot of technologies have come and gone. Most of them have really just faded away as opposed to officially been kicked to the curb. One of the longer lived ones though has been Flash. Known by numerous different monikers it has [...]
I started MacRelations back in 1997(ish) (originally with Joel Muller who started MacUpdate… dunno if he owns it now but damn good job. At the time Version Tracker was pretty much the only game in town and I sorta thought he was a bit of a nutter… that’s why other smart folks make d big [...]
Today I had to call 3 places to figure out was up with a spurious charge. You see last year I made a subscription to a sports game service 2009. I won’t name which one but it ran its course and that was that. They stopped billing me, and I (apparently incorrectly) assume that the [...]
My first article published, over a decade ago, was on the death of the Newton, and the idiotic idea of separating Apple into a hardware company, and a software company. I can say idiotic because the folks who thought that was a brilliant idea went off to Palm and convinced them to do the same. [...]
The Geek Who Stayed Home
This week Motorola came out with yet another ad for Droid. I remember droids. I played with them when I was 5. I think there’s still a head or leg of one under a couch somewhere in the world. They come from Star Wars, and this one is definitely NOT the [...]
For some reason when I decided to point out the numerous reasons the Palm Pre is doomed and the iPhone is superior Google Ad Sense decided that I should put a bunch of Palm Pre Ads on my site. The fact that I am now looking for different ad sources not withstanding, it was an [...]
The Truth About Splitting Up Apple: The Specialized Company Myth.
Introductory Note:
This article is old. In internet years it is pre-historic in as much as you cannot find it in the web archive. For those who have never known the period when Apple was intent on erasing itself from history this article is from that time. [...]
By George Edward Green III
Welcome to the first Think Positive column in… well a very long time. As some will recall this column began in a pretty bad time for Apple, hard as that is to conceive today. Shortly after the demise of the Newton, and in the midst of continually abysmal and [...]
By George Edward Green III
Friday morning as we were getting ready to leave for a trip to Boston I went to make a call on my Treo 650. The Treo has served me well but alas finally had reached its end. It’s been flakey for a while, needing to be reset, crashing when charging, most [...]
MobileMe Mail
by George Edward Green III
Okay.
Despite having written for years a column called ThinkPositive I do sometimes feel the need to rant. MobileMe mail is one reason why. Obviously MobileMe web mail is not meant to be a full fledged email app, and certainly such an app is something quite difficult to do on the [...]