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Welcome to Death of an Ad Man, where we celebrate the industry Stephen Leacock once described as “a judicious mixture of flattery and threats.” *** “Gentlemen, I’m pleased to report strong holiday sales from the Christmas-Hanu-Kwanzaa spend phase, and things look good for the Mom-Dad-Grad gift corridor. Then we’ll have the usual summer lull…” “We […]

If you’re printing out documents just so you can sign and scan them back onto your computer, then something is seriously wrong with your workflow. Preview for OS X allows you to skip the archaic printing and scanning process by letting you put your digital Herby John Hancock on anything that Preview is able to […]

Most networking hardware vendors will have you believe wireless routers simply need to be taken out of the box, plugged in, and assigned a silly name so that your neighbors know how funny you are. This is not true, especially for city dwellers who must contend with wireless interference from living in close proximity to […]

According to Ars Technica, Apple’s release of OS X 10.10.4 not only brought us much needed stability updates via the removal of the system process ‘Discoveryd’, it finally gave us a simple command line to enable TRIM support for systems using 3rd party SSDs. Previously OS X only allowed TRIM support on OEM drives, so […]