Gravitational Pull: A blog about tech and other stuff.

  • iPhoto 5.01 is out

    Apple has listened! They’re out with iPhoto 5.01. Fixes include: upgrading iPhoto 4 libraries, dragging albums into folder, importing MPEG 4 movies, and also includes a number of other minor fixes. So far it only seems to be available through “Software Update” but I’m sure it will be posted on the web soon. Original review

  • Amazon’s “people also bought…” made me laugh

    I was comparing some Apple Computer offerings on the company’s web site versus Amazon.com and laughed out loud when I saw that three Amazon customers who bought the new mac mini computer “recommended” also purchasing the Stanley Proto 680-28-241 1-1/2 Flex Blade Professional Putty Knife Stanley #28-241. That’s the tool you’d use to self-install extra…

  • Past writings

    My past writings for various publishers and employers can be found at aaronpressman.com, but I’m still getting the hang of adding things to the side bar along the right side of this page.

  • More good reading on new Mac & iPod

    John Gruber has his usual mix of thought-provoking analysis and interesting tangents in his lengthy post on the Mac mini and iPod shuffle. Must remember to subscribe to John’s blog, Daring Fireball.

  • Apple puts flash MP3 makers in a bind

    One more link to my good pal Shabbir who has a sharp analysis of the disruptive effect that Apple’s new $99 iPod Shuffle will have on the market for digital music players.

  • Lustin’

    Shabbir is lusting for an iPod Shuffle…me too!

  • Vanity search ratings

    My old boss, John Battelle, who among other projects writes SearchBlog, has a tongue-in-cheek method of evaluating new search engines. Discussing beta search site exalead, he checks how it performs on the vanity search, aka your name in quotes. I like this idea (although my wife says this post should be called “it’s all about…

  • Apple’s keynote provided server comparison to Microsoft

    Funny side note to yesterday’s Steve Jobs speech. The folks over at Netcraft monitored how various Web sites handled the overload of surfers as Apple unveiled new products. Apple’s own site and its online store, which both run obviously on Mac OS X, held up much better under far greater loads than did the site…

  • Mini Mac = maxi desire

    Apple unleashed its low-cost entries into the PC and digital music player ecosystems today. Predictably, at least one Windows drone has already complained that the Mac mini is too expensive at $499 without a monitor, keyboard and mouse. Like the complaints about the $249 price tag on the iPod mini, critics are utterly misreading the…

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