Author: Adam

Adam has been helping people with technology for over 25 years.

My favorite comic author just published the first part of a new online graphic novel “Steve & Steve”. Of interest to fans of early computer culture, California in the ’70s, psychedelics. If this describes you, you’ve already clicked.

Apple’s Contacts app has no way to show recently added contacts. Here’s an Automator action that will find contacts new in the last 3 months and add them to a group called “Recent”. Obviously you can choose your own definition of recent!

Have just discovered the loupe in Preview (press the backtick key). Where have you been all my life? — Fraser Speirs (@fraserspeirs) March 26, 2013

So much of what is written about Apple these days is just horseshit meant to draw flies. Don Melton: Regarding fake projects and loyalty tests

That Apple is able to brush aside the Flash debate as yesterday’s news — even accept as a VP someone who was at the heart of that debate, and on the wrong side — shows to me that they’re only looking forward. Manton Reece: Kevin Lynch at Apple via randomwalks/dj

Good slideshow: Abandoned Apples (Macworld)

Much has been made of the videos on YouTube showing two-year-olds playing with tablets as if they were born knowing how to pinch and squeeze. But maybe a better video would be the one that shows executives in the c-suite experiencing a similarly rapid embrace of the iPad. Both types of videos teach us a […]

lowindustrial: Words with myself.

If a process shrink can make the A5X fit elegantly into an iPad Mini, a Retina model is much closer than I originally thought, almost certainly able to come out this year. Marco Arment: More on that new Apple TV’s likely SOC