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Jordan Roher

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  • The Future is Control

    Why won't Apple let the Mac run iPadOS?

  • Mythic Quest Thoughts

    Everything that drives me crazy about the first two episodes of this TV show.

  • FFMPEG commands for audio/video mixing

    Hopefully these are the commands you've been looking for.

  • iPhones and lizard brains

    A friend in Tallahassee broke his iPhone and wanted me to talk him out of buying a Samsung Galaxy S5 Active.

  • Paranoia+

    The squealing of the Internet over Google's purchase of Nest baffles me.

  • Backup

    Backup. Then backup again. Then offsite backup. Then rotate offsite backup.

  • OpenEmu

    Sorry, did I say having a Mac mini server was boring? I was wrong.

  • Mulling Mac mini

    I'm trying to remember why I need this Mac mini.

  • iOS 7 adoption

    What if people did reject the new design? How would we know?

  • Marketing is a Feature

    Some things about the smartphone wars are objective. The Nexus 5 has a larger screen than the iPhone 5s, while the iPhone has a fingerprint sensor and the Nexus doesn't.

  • iPad Air

    What surprises you about the iPad Air is how small it feels.

  • Reformat syndrome

    You know the worst thing about owning an Apple product? They tend to work all the time.

  • At the Nexus of madness

    My first day with the Nexus 7 included two epiphanies. “Oh, I get it now,” spoken slowly. Then later and more frantically, “how do they live like this?”

  • iPhone tremors

    There’s only two times Apple reduces prices on a product: when its successor is near and on Black Friday. That’s it.

  • A challenger appearz

    Quick, what’s the most Apple-like company in the PC space? No, not Samsung. You’ve been reading too much of The Verge lately.

  • Surface-level compromises

    Consider Microsoft’s advertising for Windows 8 and their Surface tablet: 'No Compromises.'

  • 7.85 inch... oh no

    The patent trial of the century is in full swing. Phil Schiller’s testimony is fascinating, revealing that yes, of course Apple does market research like any other company.

  • Magical, revolutionary advertising

    One thing that really struck me while reading Fake Steve Jobs' book was his assertion that Apple designs products backwards.

  • Thoughts on Apple TV

    As the rumors swirl about Apple releasing an actual LCD television I wondered about the point of it. Aren't our current televisions acceptable as they are? What would Apple do differently?

  • Fixing Apache on Mountain Lion