Feeling it

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Liquid dreams

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Re-stranded

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Stranded

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The kite

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Lion recovery update installation woes

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Last week Apple released “Lion recovery update” alongside OS X 10.7.2.

This component is required in order to use the “Find my Mac” functionality of iCloud. However, for some unknown reason, Software Update didn’t show Lion recovery among the available updates and even trying to download and manually install it from here returned a strange [...]

2011 MacBook Air gets Wi-Fi speed boost with OS X 10.7.2

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One strangeness of the 2011 MacBook Air was its inability to reach the 300Mbit/s link speed when on 802.11n 5Ghz Wi-Fi networks; it would simply top up at 270Mbit/s.

Yesterday Apple released Mac OS X 10.7.2 and as soon as I updated the MacBook Air… voilà! Look with your own eyes.

Among the fixes [...]

Ask yourself: what real innovation has Microsoft ever done?

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This is the only one I can think of.

If I recall correctly Microsoft informed the press of the product launch by shipping a mouseball to the reviewers.

Intrinsic motivation: ever wondered what this is, Italian enterpreneurs?

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In businesses, Italians have this worldwide reputation of having very good skills at managing complicated and unforeseeable circumstances: ever wondered why?
 My over simplistic and perhaps not very well thought-of answer is: Because they never had a nice American manager telling them how to better do their jobs.

In this nice piece by Joel Spolsky, [...]

One month with the Air

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Last month I swapped my main laptop for an 11″ MacBook Air. Up until now things are going quite smoothly but, as real life teaches us, there’s always a “but”.

Let’s begin with a little recap:

Upon introduction in 2008 the MacBook Air seemed like an odd product: it lacked all sort of connections (except [...]