Author Archive for Syco



What happened to iTunes?

iTunes was released on January 9, 2001, at Macworld San Francisco. It was a huge deal at the time. Like, really huge. The big deal Mac MP3 players at the time, well, sucked as music jukeboxes. They were just that - MP3 players. that left the organization up to the end […]

Zune vs. iPod - Hands-On

Microsoft’s Zune. I swore to give the Zune an honest look when it actually began materializing on the Internet. I wouldn’t be a Mac zealot for the sake of being a Mac zealot - I’d actually give it a fair and honest run through. Well, as it came out a couple days […]

Tubular - See what’s on.

Introducing Tubular, the brand new YouTube client for OS X. Why would you want a YouTube client? Simple.

It’s pretty. Tubular was designed to have a simple, elegant, and out-of-the-way user interface that still manages to look gorgeous. With icons designed by Cyril Seillet and Tom Stoelwinder, and a user interface designed […]

I was looking for something that would display the currently playing iTunes song on my desktop. Nothing, however, seemed to really fit. No solution really looked like it belonged on a Mac’s desktop. So, I wrote one. And here it is.
Introducing DeskTunes.
DeskTunes is a very simple, very elegant way to see […]

WWDC 2006 Experiences

Before last week, I’d never been to a Worldwide Developer’s Conference. Hell, I’d never even been to San Francisco. So, in June, when Apple sent me the email saying that I was getting a free ticket through the door, I was very excited. Two months later, on Saturday, August 5th, and I’m […]

I write this hot on the heels of a post I made a few weeks ago, citing my insignificant attempt at turning the world away from the Dark Side of IE. Since that started, the use of MSIE by my readers has gone down to 26%. Certainly better than 33%, but not groundbreaking […]

Check out the About Me page. I actually got around to writing it. And I made it a little different by using a special stylesheet.

Anyone vaguely familiar with RIT can most likely attest to one thing: the ratio of males to females is very skewed. The official ratio for the 2003-2004 academic year is 2:1, male to female. While that’s the official head count, looking around the campus, you get the impression that the actual ratio is […]

Here’s the thing. I <3 productivity. So, as I’ve yelled about Java’s exceptions before and how time consuming they are to write, I decided to do something about it.

TIME has an interview with Samuel L. Jackson about how fans on the Internet saved Snakes on a Plane.
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