Category Archives: Apple

iPhone 6 thoughts

Posted on 2014/09/12 by richardykuo

I honestly didn’t find much compelling in the way of features on the new iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus.  The industry seems to be reaching a bit of plateau in the innovations they can bring to the mobile phone market.  But … Continue reading →

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Playing around with the Nexus 7 (2013)

Posted on 2014/06/26 by richardykuo

                  I scored a 129 dollar official refurb of the latest generation of the Google Nexus 7 off eBay.  Granted, it’s probably about to be refreshed any day now, but it’s still … Continue reading →

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Review – iPad Mini with Retina Display

Posted on 2013/11/23 by richardykuo

Introduction The original iPad Mini was fraught with compromises.  A low cost product from a company that doesn’t like to make low cost anything, it was clearly built to fill a burgeoning niche being addressed by cheap Android tablets that … Continue reading →

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iPad mini thoughts and a second pass at the Surface

Posted on 2012/11/25 by richardykuo

The iPad mini is an odd beast. Technically, it’s completely unremarkable. No retina display, last gen processor and RAM. And yet, I’m going to dump my iPad 3rd gen and go whole hog with this one. Why? Because it’s half … Continue reading →

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The iPhone 5 review

Posted on 2012/10/02 by richardykuo

The world needs another iPhone 5 review.  So I’m here to give you one. I’m not going to get into all the specs.  Maybe in a past life, but plenty of other folks have done that quite well in today’s … Continue reading →

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Repurposed an old Mac Mini

Posted on 2012/08/20 by richardykuo

In the process of getting a Hadoop cluster running on many of the machines around my household (made possible and relatively uniform thanks to virtual machines running in VirtualBox and VMWare), I ran across issues with getting an old Mac … Continue reading →

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Back to My Mac interferes with IPSec based VPN

Posted on 2012/08/08 by richardykuo

Apparently a few weeks ago my home VPN stopped accepting incoming connections.  I discovered this last week when I was on vacation and tried to remote into my home network, only to discover that it would not work. I was … Continue reading →

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Google could make the iPhone 5 today, and it wouldn’t matter

Posted on 2012/07/02 by richardykuo

In the midst of all this patent brouhaha, I think it’s important to note that Apple’s success with the iPhone and iPad wasn’t just the result of innovation in one product area.  It was the result of years of constantly … Continue reading →

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Picking a color for your new iPad 2

Posted on 2011/03/21 by richardykuo

While you're all waiting to get your new iPad's (I am too!), you might be struggling with the idea of what color to get.  Contrary to what you might think, it's not just personal preference.  There are real functional differences … Continue reading →

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