My favorite Mac apps: Music and Video Apps

by Ryan Parman • December 14, 2012 • Apple, Personal, Projects, Software • No comments

As we lead-up to Christmas (and other holidays that I don’t personally celebrate), I thought I’d put together a list of a few of my favorite things — Mac apps top be specific. These are some of my favorite music and video apps. iTunes, iTunes Match, Last.fm, Spotify & Tracks I’ve been using iTunes to [...]

My favorite Mac apps: Day-to-day Apps

by Ryan Parman • December 13, 2012 • Apple, Personal, Projects, Software • 1 comments

As we lead-up to Christmas (and other holidays that I don’t personally celebrate), I thought I’d put together a list of a few of my favorite things — Mac apps top be specific. These are some of my favorite day-to-day apps. Safari My favorite web browser on the Mac platform. It’s fast, has minimal UI [...]

In response to “DEAR APPLE: I’m Leaving You”

by Ryan Parman • November 4, 2012 • Apple • 1 comments

A recent editorial on Business Insider layer out a number of reasons why the author, Ed Conway, was “leaving Apple”. This is my response. Self-Indulgent Weiner In his editorial, Ed Conway wrote: Dear Tim, There’s no easy way to put this so I’ll just come right out with it. I’m leaving you. It’s been great [...]

Current status

by Ryan Parman • October 2, 2012 • Just for Fun • No comments

App Judgment and sloppy reporting

by Ryan Parman • September 30, 2012 • Apple, Technology • No comments

For some time now, I’ve been a fan of the App Judgment podcast, which discusses new apps, devices and grades them on-air. Lately, however, I’ve noticed some saddeningly ill-informed “reporting” when it comes to Apple, iOS 6 and the new iPhone 5. Bias is bias First of all, everybody is free to have their own [...]

The Measurement of ‘Nice’

by Ryan Parman • September 23, 2012 • Apple, Culture, Design, Technology • No comments

In his piece entitled iPhone 5, John Gruber made a statement that really stuck out to me: […] but there is no benchmark, no tech spec, to measure nice. But you can feel it. And that is what resonates with millions of people around the world. As soon as I read this, I was struck [...]

Clueless Recruiters, Issue #6

by Ryan Parman • September 19, 2012 • Clueless Recruiters • No comments

What does Ryan do when the same recruiter keeps pinging him over and over despite all efforts to get removed from a recruiter’s mailing list? Find out in this week’s episode of Clueless Recruiters! (Cue theme music!) Explanation There are few things that technical people are more annoyed by than technical recruiters. A very large [...]

Clueless Recruiters, Issue #5

by Ryan Parman • September 19, 2012 • Clueless Recruiters • No comments

What do Lawyers, Evil Dictators and this week’s Clueless Recruiter have in common? A complete lack of human decency. All in this week’s episode of Clueless Recruiters! (Cue theme music!) Explanation There are few things that technical people are more annoyed by than technical recruiters. A very large segment of the technical recruiting industry has [...]