P. J. Connolly

Well, here’s another trend for me to buck, just in time for the holiday weekend. It seems that demand for e-readers seems to be taking off far more rapidly than the tablet market, according to new figures released this week by the Pew Research Center. [WP_IMAGE] I’m not surprised by this, if only because e-readers […]

The calendar says that it’s summer, which means that we expect to see some action on the latest thing in device connectivity, Thunderbolt. Formerly known as LightPeak, the technology has the potential for 100-gigabit throughput thanks in part to its combination of DisplayPort and PCI Express technology. Apple earlier this year became the first vendor […]

Office 365, which launched today, is interesting, but in order for it to be a success, it’s going to have to live up to its name; its predecessor, Microsoft’s BPOS service, has rung up enough downtime in the last two months to give any potential customer reason to think twice about relying on the cloud. […]

Apple today released the 10.6.8 update to Mac OS X, which is recommended for the company’s Final Cut Pro X video editing software, and which may be the company’s final update to the Snow Leopard release train. It’s available through the Software Update feature of Mac OS X or as a download from Apple. [WP_IMAGE] […]

I’m extremely skeptical of the performance claims made by wireless carriers, and with good reason: as someone who works in downtown San Francisco, I’ve found wireless coverage around my office to be somewhere between problematic and unreliable. The Peninsula’s representative in Congress, Anna Eshoo (D-Palo Alto) introduced legislation today that would force mobile carriers, including […]

Cirrus Thinking’s Dolly Drive is a simple-to-use backup tool that allows Mac users to replace locally-attached devices that use the Time Machine feature of Mac OS X with cloud-based backups. It, in essence, bolts onto the Time Machine infrastructure and provides a Blowfish-encrypted backup link to the Dolly Drive servers. Users interact with Dolly Drive […]

Hello, my name is P. J. and I’m codephobic. That might be overstating the case, but not by much. You see, I’ve attempted for decades to program in everything from FORTRAN to Perl; with only a few exceptions, I’ve given up about half an hour after “Hello World.” Until recently, I’ve assumed much of the […]

Today is the 100th birthday of IBM, or at least, its predecessor, the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Co. As the company that made the mainframe a corporate staple, and put the PC on the desktops of business around the world, there’s no question that the universe of computing technology revolved around IBM well into the 1990s. [WP_IMAGE] But […]

As you may recall, one of the big beefs I have with Apple’s plans for distributing Mac OS X 10.7 Lion as an online-only upgrade is the pain involved in downloading the software over and over, when one wants to install it on multiple machines. [WP_IMAGE] Apple’s been working on the problem for a while, […]

Billions of Points AutoCAD 2012 allows users to more easily create 3D models of existing buildings and objects with laser scanners, by supporting up to 2 billion scan points in a drawing. Materials Browsing Made Easier Updated materials swatches and better organization of the library make it easier for users to work with materials and […]

Apple began selling unlocked GSM iPhones in its United States retail outlets today; they list at $649 for the 16GB model and $749 for the 32GB model. This is such good news that I’m actually thinking about buying one. [WP_IMAGE] Since the introduction of the original iPhone in 2007, the only way to acquire an […]

Although content management systems are thought of primarily as a tool for media organizations, almost any business will generate enough digital content that managing it inside someone’s head or in a file drawer simply isn’t a good idea. In today’s reading, I came across a discussion on Poynter.org that, although directed at journalists, is an […]