I have upgraded and run for a few days the new Macintosh OS, OS X Lion. By and large I am happy with the new approach, although I am less than thrilled with some of the new interface design. Smaller, less colourful icons are not helpful to my aged eyes. And I find the changes to the look of the iCal and Address Book applications to be pretty ( Read more... )

After months of fun speculation about Apple’s “new creation,” Steve Jobs announced the new iPad at an invitation only event in San Francisco yesterday. I had planned to write down my wish-list of functionality and capabilities for the device, but laziness and other activities got in the way. Now I can respond to what actually came out ( Read more... )