If you find your SSD filling up, this might be the cause. Thankfully, OS X trims these files if space becomes too constrained.
Category: Apple
New iMacs Delayed?⇢
Rumor has it that Apple is having issues building the new crazy-thin-except-in-the-middle iMacs, and may not ship the machines until early next year. As someone who needs to order several iMacs for work, this has me nervous.
The Choice⇢
Abdel Ibrahim:
In the end, you have to make a choice between what you want a tablet for. Is it to just browse the web and check your email? If so, the Nexus 7 is a great device for that. But if you’d like to do those things as well as play a game here and there, read a book, and do a whole bunch more due to the availability of of nearly 300,000 apps, then the mini is the clear winner. It’s not that these other tablets are bad – it’s just that the iPad mini is so good.
The iPad mini and the Newton⇢
In college, I used a Newton 2100 with keyboard in class to take notes. True story.
via @splorp
‘Siri Isn’t A Sexy Librarian’⇢
Kontra:
Obviously, no new platform as far-reaching as Siri comes without issues and risks. It also doesn’t help that the two commercial online successes Apple has had, iTunes and App Store, were done in another era of technology and still contain vestiges of many operational shortcomings. More recent efforts such as MobileMe, Ping, Game Center, iCloud, iTunes Match, Passbook, etc., have been less than stellar. Regardless, Siri stands as a monumental opportunity both for Apple as a transactional money machine and for its users as a new paradigm of discovery and task completion more approachable than any we’ve seen to date. In the end, Siri is Apple’s game to lose.
Macworld/iWorld Schedule Published⇢
While I’m bummed I won’t be able to make it out to San Francisco this year, I’m glad that the conference dropped the pipe from its name.
iPad mini Review: Good Things Come in Small Packages
It’s become a familiar cycle, these things. First, we see a single rumor, then photos of camera cables leak from China, then a Best Buy employee sends a screenshot to 9to5Mac with price points. Back housings and screens pop up, and before we know it, someone’s assembled a product that hasn’t been announced.
Then, Apple gets on stage, announcing the very thing we all know is coming, leaving some people underwhelmed and disappointed at the lack of anything surprising.
Sosumi⇢
To this day, this is the alert sound I use on my Macs.
Unidentified Hipster Buys iPad mini, Celebrates in Street⇢
This photo made me laugh.
Dear Apple...⇢
This post made my morning.
A Closer Look at Apple’s Executives
These pieces on Bob Mansfield and Eddie Cue have something in common: both guys’ careers are in better shape with Scott Forstall gone.
On the 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display
During Apple’s iPad mini event, the company introduced the 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display. While the machine has a wordy name, it’s a welcome sight to those of us who have always loved the 13-inch MacBook Pro. I’ve reviewed the machine two times over the years, both times showing my love of the form factor and power.
These days, I’m using a 15-inch non-Retina MacBook Pro, and love it, but still ache for something a little smaller. When Apple announced the 13 Retina, I got excited.