Daring Fireball, John Gruber's excellent Apple-centric blog is forgetting its roots. Post-election, it breaks down like this: 43 posts, 17 of which relate directly or indirectly to Trump, his supporters, the election, Hilary, and/or ancillary political issues. Among the rest are adverts, podcast-notices, and a few noteworthy Mac-related essays.
Read moreSTAR WARS Advent Day 6: Snowtrooper
Jay's Brick Blog have a cool standoff, which you can see here: Day 6 – Snowtrooper. It appears that we are all trying to construct a narrative with the pieces thus far opened. The blurry bit behind is the Imperial Navy Trooper, and the barely visible pile of rubble in front of the Snowtrooper is a dismantled Tie Intercepter. To the left, and blurred to near invisibility, is the ineffective Hoth Defence Turret.
Read moreSTAR WARS Advent Day 5: Hoth Defence Turret
Now that I've got a Tie Interceptor and an Imperial Navy Trooper at my disposal, I decided to construct a capture narrative. As we know from The Empire Strikes Back, the Hoth Defence Turrets didn't do much anyway.
If you want more information about the Hoth Defence Turret, head to Jay's Brick Blog.
Read moreSTAR WARS Advent Day 4: Imperial Navy Trooper
As always, if you're looking for detailed information, check out Jay's Brick Blog for more information about the Imperial Navy Trooper. For my part, it's a cool addition to this year's advent. This dude is way more badass than the Bespin Guard.
Read moreSTAR WARS Advent Day 3: Tie Interceptor
My love affair with the Tie Interceptor began with Lucas Arts's amazing flight sim, Tie Fighter. It was 1994 and my Packard Bell was barely able to cope. Its cutest incarnation is the above, Day 3's toy.
Read moreSTAR WARS Advent Day 2: Bespin guard
And, because I skipped yesterday, today has two entries, Slave 1 before this post, and today's subject, a Bespin guard. At this point, I should admit that I thought my Christmas LEGO STA WARS blog would be cute. I had no idea that for some, it was a well-established online Christmas tradition. Therefore, this post, the one before it, and everyone after, will be nothing more than a cute aside to the the reas opus over at Jaysbrickblog.
Read moreSTAR WARS Advent Day 1: Slave 1
Yesterday, my daughter fell ill and my wife went next. As a wannabe-responsible dad, I had to shirk my first ever advent post. On my birthday, I received the 2016 STAR WARS advent calendar, which I've decided to shoot, piece by piece, and present, daily, on ohm.
Read moreSamsung's ArtPC Pulse Mac Pro wannabe
"But there are only so many ways you can design a PC!", right Apple anti-fandom?
More on this embarrassment over at Engadget.
Read morePoor copy: macOS Sierra install splash screen
"To set up the installatioin of macOS Sierra, click Continue" reads too much like a machine translation from Japanese. Try this on, Apple: "Click Continue to set up macOS Sierra".
Read moreApple's new credo - progressively less about Apple products
Apple's leadership are either so lost in dogmatic progressivism to realise that at core, they are an electronics company. That, or they are so enamoured with such progressivism as to not care.
The screen capture above and the poem below are lifted from this article at MacRumors.
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