RUSH: El Rushbo's Favorite Apple Tech Blogs

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El Rushbo's Favorite Apple Tech Blogs
March 22, 2013

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RUSH: Rosie in Lake Havasu, Arizona, it's great to have you here.
Hi.

CALLER: Hi. I just wanted to start off by saying that I'm 16, I'm in the 11th grade, and I'm also a freshman in college.
I just wanted to start off in saying, thank you for helping me.
In one of and has us debate certain things

like immigration, national debt, unemployment -- and, my favorite, Obamacare.
It's really refreshing to go home and, like, listen to you and realize,
no, I'm not crazy.
Because, as classical liberals, they all just look at you like you're crazy
because you think Obama is a terrible president.

RUSH: Rosie, my heart's skipping a couple of beats here.
Let me make sure I heard you correctly.
You are 16?

CALLER: Yes.

RUSH: You're in the eleventh grade,
and also doing college freshman-level work?

CALLER: Yes, sir.

RUSH: Wow.
And this program has assisted you, has helped you?

CALLER: Absolutely.

RUSH: Wow. I can't tell you how flattered I am.
That is so cool. I appreciate that very much.

CALLER: I just love this program.
I catch it whenever I can, and it's amazing.
The next thing, I wanted to ask you is
what your favorite tech blogs were because I've been looking at a few.

RUSH: Oh, wow. My favorite tech blog...
I read about 30 tech blogs.

CALLER: Uh-huh.

RUSH: Oh, man, to pick one of these?
They're all different.
What is your interest, your specific tech interest?
Do you have a specific tech?
That would help me narrow it down.

CALLER: Not really.
I'm still just trying to, like, find general things like topics.
I've been poking through a few but, sorry, I don't know.
There's like an unofficial Apple one and I was looking at that one.

RUSH: Well, there are all kinds of Apple ones.
You keep your radio on.
I've got a commercial, but you keep your radio on and I'll give you a couple of names on the air when we come back from the break, okay?

CALLER: Okay.

RUSH: Yeah, thanks for the call, Rosie. This is great.

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RUSH: Rosie in Lake Havasu, I went to my RSS reader and this is really tough because I've never mentioned any of these before.
I can't mention them all, but since you said Apple, that helps narrow it down.
In no particular order, here they are:

iMore.com.
That's run by a guy named Rene Ritchie.
I think he's out of Canada, but this site,
in addition to keeping you up-to-speed on everything happening with Apple,
will offer you excellent tips on using Apple products,
both the mobile and desktop.

MacDailyNews.com is also fabulous.

AppleInsider.com is great.

World of Apple is okay.

There are a couple of others that are not specifically Apple, but they are Apple centric.
They cover a lot more than that.
One of them is called loopinsight.com and the other's daringfireball.com.
We'll link to all of these at RushLimbaugh.com on our website.
Rosie, if you weren't able to write them all down, they will be on our website.
You'll be able to find them all.
But there are tons of them.
I mean, they're all over the place out there.
One of them, cultofmac.com, they've got people on that one, very snarky who rip Apple to shreds at the same time.
So if you're interested in that, if you want people who do that too, then that's a site that you might want to check out now and then.

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Thanks to Rosie in Lake Havasu, Arizona, for asking the question.
It's inspiring to see and hear a 16 year old with that much intelligence and potential,
be able to see through the LIBERAL CRAP spewed by the so-called education system.
And thank you, Rush, for sharing your wisdom to the masses who will listen, and act upon your knowledge.

[Aetius]

I wonder how a leftie like Steve Jobs felt about Rush being such an Apple fan. I know Limbaugh has said before that he knows they hate him at Apple, but he still likes their products. Which is understandable, since their products are good.

[Yosemitest]

Lefties are usually very cheap.
He probably loved the free advertisements, but hated the conservative connection.
It took me decades before I finally got away from Windows.
But since I did, my virus problems have dropped to zero.

[momincombatboots]

I have told my husband for years... Windows *is* a virus.

[Yosemitest]

Between 1998 and 2002 my soon to be ex-wife was in college getting her Computer Science BS Degree, and she told me that Windows was released as an outline, full of holes, and updates were just revisions filling the security violations that Windows had suffered.
She said Windows wanted those virus problems, so they could sell more programs, and newer versions of Windows.

[SES1066]

In that era, I was a user of OS/2, originally the successor to WinDos by both IBM and Microsoft (MS). As a stable platform, it had it in spades and was virus resistant as well. Problem was that IBM lost interest and MS saw the opportunity to ‘rule’ the operating system niche and went for Win95 and its successors.

While IBM was still selling OS/2, the rumor was that MS would send out people trained to crash the system so that the displays would always show malfunctions. Easy to do for almost any OS of the time, the difference was that this niche was essential for MS while a sideline for IBM. (MS was committed like a pig furnishing bacon for breakfast, IBM was dedicated like a hen laying the eggs!).

History has spoken but the irony is that MS is now the 800 pound behemoth that can find little success and no credit for their work. Windows 8 appears to be less than stellar in its uptake rate and so the flash belongs to that MS Office and Xbox cash cows. Even Apple now finds itself fighting Samsung and Google as the current beleaguered “King of the Hill”. Times do change but cycles will reappear!

FYI: As an IT guy for many years, I worked almost exclusively in the WinDos world from the 80s onward. In 2005, I received a Mac Powerbook from my Mac ‘evangelist’ brother and have never looked back. I do use Parallels to run certain Windows specific software very successfully on my iMac, but I am almost entirely Mac and iOS in my life now.

[Yosemitest]

I bought Parallels just to have access to my crashed Windows XP tax files and to be able to access my old documents.
But I don't have enough experience to know if it's any better than to do a Command Line start up from the boot up.
I believe it is, but I don't know for sure.

[arjay]

I HATE windows 8.
I have to use it, but I hate it.

[W.]

Hi, I started with DOS 6.22 and went to Win 3.1 and what a crashfest that was. Next was WIN95, har, same crap, different name. How many times I had to format the drive and reinstall the world, I don't wanna remember!

Flash forward to Win 7, a world of difference! It takes care of itself, no more installing updates, etc, it asks first and does it. How cool is that? No BSOD!

And, I have an original vintage iMac from 2001, works fine and came with a clear pro keyboard and laser mouse for a fiver from a garage sale around 2006. It's cool but there's not much there computer capacity compared to my good old Toshiba laptop [from 2010] I'm tapping this note out on. But, yay!

[Yosemitest]

I like Toshiba, but my laptop was a 2000, and it had heating issues, and I like Windows XP, but My Snow Leopard 24" iMac is much better.
Of course, it's not fair to compare 2000 tech to 2010 tech.