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    Winning By Cheating

    October 3rd, 2013

    When I first set up a Samsung Galaxy S4, I decided to run a set of benchmarks just to see how well it did. As already reported by the media, it scored more than twice as fast as its predecessor, the Galaxy S3. But it didn’t feel that much faster, if at all. It still […]


    Waiting for the Bug Fixes

    October 2nd, 2013

    I’m sure most or all of you understand that software is far from perfect, and that one release will begat many. Sometimes a new product will arrive with bug fix downloads already waiting. There was one, for example, for the 2013 iMac. The day it came out, there was already an update to fix a […]


    The Apple Myths Keep on Coming

    September 25th, 2013

    So, without giving you a reference to the original source, and confuse you further, some tech media sites fell for the foolish claim that iOS 7 somehow makes your iPhone waterproof. Are you with me so far? Now implicit in such an absurd assumption is the belief that software will somehow render the hardware impervious […]


    Will the Critics Admit They Got Apple Wrong? No Way!

    September 24th, 2013

    Let’s take a brief journey back through time. In 2012, amid predictions that Apple would sell up to ten million copies of the iPhone 5, they announced that a “mere” five million were sold. Now in passing, it should be pointed out that Apple never made any presales predictions, but they did state that they […]