The Influence of Advertising – Apple

« 24 January 2024 | 22:19 | Apple, Daily Musings, Macintosh, Technology | 2 Comments »

Greetings, and thanks for stopping by. Earlier this month, I posted about the only other company whose had a profound influence on me via their product advertising – that company is Nike. This post is about the other company. Did you know that today, January 24th, is the 40th birthday of the Mac? Here’s one […]



Vintage Apple Memories (Macs, iPhones, and other Apple products)

« 28 October 2021 | 22:37 | Apple, Daily Musings, Macintosh, Technology | No Comments »

Greetings and thanks for stopping by. Recently I came across a photo of an old ad (ten years ago) for the iPhone 4S. This was the model that introduced the world to Siri. It was also the second iPhone that I ever owned – an upgrade from my first one, the iPhone 4. I still […]



Gone… A Loss of Fond Technology

« 1 December 2017 | 17:34 | Apple, Macintosh, Music Production/Studio Recording, Technology | No Comments »

EDIT (27 Jan 1) SHE’S ALIVE AGAIN It started a few nights ago. Someone in a music production forum on Facebook posted a synthesizer advertisement from back in the day…a vintage synth. Before long, members of the forum were chiming in about what they remember about those days – things like they used that synth […]



Call me a neo-Luddite (old tech wins this round….)

« 27 June 2009 | 2:20 | Apple, Macintosh, Music Production/Studio Recording, Technology | 2 Comments »

In my recording studio, I have a very old sampler, a Yamaha TX16W. This sampler has a 3.5″ disk drive that reads Yamaha’s proprietary format sample lilbrary. I have at least three cases of sample disks that I’d like to convert before possibly selling them with the sampler. I really didn’t want to fire up […]



Seems like the perfect combo: A Hackintosh’d Dell Mini 9

« 23 February 2009 | 21:47 | Apple, Macintosh, Technology | No Comments »

For the longest time I’ve been considering a netbook. Why, for the obvious reasons…ultraportable computing and a good cross between a standard size laptop and the smaller Sony Vaio. I’ve had online discussions and tweets with Roddykat and Kenya and still really think about getting another high end Powerbook Aluminum or better yet cheap Macbook […]