November 29, 2020 By Erik Christiansen Originally published at https://tech-bytes.net on September 14, 2020. My intention was not for this website to become the Apple blog, but the famous fruit company seems to be dominating much of the news cycle this year. This past summer, at the World Wide Developer…

Originally published at https://tech-bytes.net on March 14, 2022. By Erik Christiansen Become a Patron The great advantage of console gaming is the simplicity. Yes, thanks to the Internet, console games often require day-one patches to perform properly. (This wasn’t a problem in the old days). Or, a download is required…

What you need to learn — My colleague Kris Hans and I had never done a podcast, but we were determined to figure it out. Almost a year later and twenty-five episodes into our project, we wanted to share what we did to build the EdTech Examined podcast. How it started

(Originally published at erikchristiansen.net, May 24, 2021) I get a lot of questions about productivity from my students and colleagues. I suppose by being relatively well read on the subject of productivity, and by being “perceived” as productive, I have brought this on myself. …

By Erik Christiansen Originally published at https://tech-bytes.net on September 14, 2020. The launch of a new console generation is so very exciting. It’s one of the few things that genuinely makes me feel like I’m a kid again. Even if you’re not a gamer, new console generations are important milestones…

Erik Christiansen Originally published at https://tech-bytes.net on August 16, 2020. Following the expected reveal that Apple was going to transition the Mac from Intel to Apple Silicon, I started thinking about what this would mean for the x86 architecture more broadly. This architecture has been at the heart of desktop…

By Erik Christiansen Originally published at https://tech-bytes.net on July 17, 2020. If you’ve been a Mac user for a long time, you know that the community can be fickle. On one hand, there’s a consistent complaint that the Mac platform doesn’t get nearly enough attention from Apple compared to iOS/iPadOS…

Originally published at https://tech-bytes.net on June 29, 2020. Part of the WWDC 2020 series* By Erik Christiansen It’s no longer a rumour. Last week, Apple announced it was transitioning its entire line of Mac computers from Intel chips to its custom “Apple Silicon” over the next two years. Why is…

May 26, 2020 Working from home during COVID-19 means we need a decent computer. Unfortunately, with the economic uncertainty that the pandemic has brought, it’s not so easy to plunk down $1500 or more for a new laptop. The good news is that our laptops are lasting longer than ever. …