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Liftoff #44: Voyager⇢
After visiting Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, the Voyager probes are now probing the very edges of our solar system — and beyond.
I find something … unsettling … about the Voyager mission.
Connected #137: Fancy Screwdrivers⇢
With Myke pondering life in the woods, Stephen and Federico talk about Clips and what the Mac and iPad can learn from each other before quizzing each other on their preferred platforms in a battle for eternal nerd glory.
I had a lot of fun going up against Viticci in this episode.
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Revisiting my Original iPad Review⇢
Seven years ago, I published my original iPad review. I thought it would be fun to revisit it today.
I really had no intention of buying an iPad on launch day, but I was very curious about it. About an hour before the local Apple Store closed, I called a friend of mine to see if he wanted to go with me to check out the demo models. I figured I was safe from an impulsive decision, but they still had models in stock:
What I Want in the New Mac Pro
Justin Williams recently wrote up what he’d like to see in the new Mac Pro, from his standpoint as a software developer.
I’m not a developer, but I am a pro user. While my 5K iMac is plenty of machine for me, I would like to have the option of a viable Mac Pro when it’s time to replace this computer down the road.
Like Williams, I really just want a tower I can plug into a display. Here’s what I’d like that product to include:
EveryAppleVideo YouTube Channel Gone⇢
This is a big blow to researching Apple stuff. I’m not shocked, but I wish I had scraped it before this happened.
Cassini’s Grand Finale⇢
Since 2004, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has been at Saturn, studying the gas giant and its many moons. That work is coming to an end this month:
On Wednesday, April 26, the spacecraft will make the first in a series of dives through the 1,500-mile-wide (2,400-kilometer) gap between Saturn and its rings as part of the mission’s grand finale.
“No spacecraft has ever gone through the unique region that we’ll attempt to boldly cross 22 times,” said Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator for the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington. “What we learn from Cassini’s daring final orbits will further our understanding of how giant planets, and planetary systems everywhere, form and evolve. This is truly discovery in action to the very end.”
The Cheese Grater Mac Pro
As we learned this week, the 2013 trash can Mac Pro is going to … well … the trash can. Apple has promised a new “modular” Mac Pro for sometime after 2017.
In the light of this news, I thought it would be interesting to look back a model, to the “cheese grater” Mac Pros Apple sold from 2006 until 2013. It was a flexible, expandable, powerful desktop computer.
Imagine that.
Questioning Modularity⇢
As a past Power Mac customer I am excited about Apple’s future “modular Mac,” but I have questions about what modular means to Apple and its customers.
My guess is that at least some of these questions are going to have disappointing answers if the Power Mac is your benchmark, but I’m trying to keep an open mind here.
Panic Turns 20⇢
One of my favorite indie Mac development studios is celebrating twenty years in the business: Here’s Cabel Sasser:
No, your eyes do not deceive you. Some of you may not know that we founded our company in 1997, but it’s true. We’re older than Facebook, older than Twitter, older than Google, and somehow still kickin’.
Every year is a little different, and last year was for sure — a little bit quieter on the software front (at least publicly), and a whole lot louder on the launch-of-a-major-multi-platform-video-game front.
Kbase Article of the Week: Mac Pro Raid Card or Xserve Raid Card: Volume May Not Mount after Improper Shutdown or Restart⇢
Did you know Apple used to sell a RAID card for the Mac Pro and Xserve?
I used to have a handful of customers with them, and their cards would always act up after a bad shutdown, as Apple writes:
- Systems with a Mac Pro RAID Card or Xserve RAID Card may start up to a blinking question mark, or RAID volumes may not mount. RAID Utility may show the volumes, RAID sets, and disks are all viable or good.
- An Xserve configured with an SSD and Mac OS X Server installed on the SSD may start up but the RAID volume(s) configured on the RAID Card may not mount.
These symptoms may occur if the LUN map has been damaged and needs to be re-created.
Jannis Hermanns Has Made Something Wonderful
From adorable Apple Watch stands to LEGO Mac models, I’m a big fan of tiny Macintosh projects.
Naturally, a tiny LEGO Mac powered by a Raspberry Pi and e-paper display jumped out at me. The creator, Jannis Hermanns, has written up his whole process. I’m impressed.