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About Benny Taylor
Posts by Benny Taylor
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How to insert frequently written text on a Mac with TypeIt4Me
10 May 2012 by Benny Taylor
Like many people, I find myself having to type the same bits of text many times throughout my working week. Various applications already have ways of reducing the labor involved in this. For example, email clients have auto-signatures and word processors have automatic text facilities. The Mac OS X operating system itself is strong when it comes to automation. AppleScript and the sophisticated Aut...
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My iPhone 5 Wish List
02 Apr 2012 by Benny Taylor / 2 Comments
I crossed the line into full-on Apple addiction a few weeks ago. Not satisfied to wait and watch Apple’s iPad keynote speech after the event, I tuned in to a live blogcast, followed the tweets and photographs as they happened, and waited eagerly to find out about what the “one other thing” bit at the end might be about. Well, as you probably know, this particular keynote event didn’...
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4 Reasons Why We are NOT in a Post-PC Age
26 Mar 2012 by Benny Taylor / 7 Comments
Sales of desktop PCs and laptops are falling. It’s impossible to read any technical media without hearing about the “death of the PC.” And both Apple and Microsoft are soon to release operating systems that seek to merge the features of the computer operating system with those available on tablet devices. All this evidence mounts up to suggest that the Steve Jobs-coined “post PC era” is ...
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How Evernote Changed My Life
13 Mar 2012 by Benny Taylor / 2 Comments
Evernote has been around a while now, and is a seemingly permanent fixture on the ubiquitous “must have apps” lists that fill technical websites and computer magazines. Evernote is, however, far from being something just for the nerds. Heavy exposure everywhere from Time magazine to the New York Times has led to it being one of the most consistently popular apps for iOS and Android. Th...
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Words with Friends is Mobile Gaming Perfection
02 Mar 2012 by Benny Taylor / 1 Comment
Saturday night. Relaxing at a friend’s house. Dinner is over, and we are all sitting around the dining table. The room is strangely quiet. Everyone at the table has a look of intense concentration, and the only sounds are the occasional shrills and pings produced by our various laptops and smartphones. No, this isn’t a strange vision of a scary post-social-skills future. It was just last week ...
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Apple’s Natural Scrolling Feature Catches On
29 Feb 2012 by Benny Taylor
Apple’s introduction of “natural scrolling” with OS X Lion was a controversial move. Apple effectively decided that computer users had for years been scrolling the wrong way around. They changed things so that, by default, OS X Lion users would “push” content up to move it up the screen, and “pull” it down to move it downwards – the same way that everyon...
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Is Apple Turning OS X into iOS?
25 Feb 2012 by Benny Taylor / 1 Comment
Last week saw Apple announcing the arrival of the latest Mac OS X revision, Mountain Lion, which will be released later this year. Apple’s website clearly states that Mountain Lion will have “all new features, inspired by the iPad.” These include the Game Center, Notification Center, and system-wide Twitter integration that already exists on iDevices. A quick glance at the Apple ...
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WriteRoom Brings Distraction-free Writing to Mac OS X
23 Feb 2012 by Benny Taylor
I write for a living. While I don’t suffer writers block too often, I do have one major problem that affects my productivity and reduces my output – distraction. I love my MacBook Pro. I’m just a few clicks away from 16,000 songs, and all day long various applications ping, click and bing, alerting me to new Facebook photos, emails from friends and comments on my blogs. Entertain...
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Make your Mac More Like Windows 7 with HyperDock
17 Feb 2012 by Benny Taylor
I’m a Mac, but I used to be a PC. (Just in case you haven’t seen them, I am referring to the popular series of TV adverts comparing the Apple and Microsoft ways of doing things.) This is an app review, so it’s not the place for a Mac vs. Windows debate. For the sake of context however, I should say that after switching and enduring a sharp learning curve, I personally came to appreciate and ...
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