Author: John Martellaro

After writing an article about how Microsoft will be using the Zune simply as a business platform, not as a consumer pleasing product, I

I’ve been doing this Perl benchmark for years. It’s short and sweet. How long does it take a Mac to do 10,000,000 sines? It’s

My wife bought a used camera from a friend last month. It uses Compact Flash storage, and all the extra CF cards were on

Yesterday, I published an essay, “Hidden Dimensions,” over at The Mac Observer. After exploring some of the positive things Apple is doing with Apple

When my Lexar Compact Flash card turned out to be defective, I posted a story about my experience with Lexar customer support right here

The first article talks about an illusion, drawn from my experience skiing, that seems to apply to the entertainment industry and their fixation on

My wife works for the U.S. Antarctic program. Often, at work in the Denver office, she checks in with what Jeff Gamet and I

Back in the days before Safari, I used OmniWeb. It was very nice and free. Then I switched to Safari when it came out

Thanks to feedback, I suspect, by picky users, TurboTax just seems to get better and better. So I wanted to chime in and concur

1. The Antarctic is a continent. It’s quite large. At 90 South is just one of several U.S. Antarctic research stations, the Amundsen-Scott South

Along with many others, I am a big fan of what Parallels is doing with their “Parallels Desktop for Mac.” This is the virtualization

It’s fairly obvious to everyone who stays up-to-date on Apple that there are people who make a living criticizing and underestimating Apple. And we

I am writing this after returning from a week-long ski trip to Steamboat Springs, Colorado. My wife and I have taken this annual vacation

I have been brooding, as I know Beth Lock has, about the frenzy of Internet publishing. What’s fueling this, of course, is massive bandwidth

Frankly, I have never seen so much crap in my whole life. People are living in dreamland. All this fuss about Vista’s delay for

I wrote a few weeks back that Vista’s delay would likely not produce any measurable increase in Apple’s market share. And yet, I believe

From this article: http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/internet/04/03/dvd.downloads.ap/index.html it appears to me that the movie studios (except Disney) have gone off and struck a deal that gives them

I was going to write a blog on why, very recently, I’ve begun to suspect that Blu-Ray is going to lose to HD-DVD. What

Unless you know exactly what you’re looking for or you’re good at using a search engine, you could overlook a lot at Apple.com Here’s

Today, two very different critiques were published about Apple’s new “Get a Mac” TV campaign. The first was done by Mac World UK. In