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Macworld 2012: Not what it used to be
27 Jan 2012 by Craig Lloyd
Back in its heyday, the annual Macworld conference was the event that everyone looked forward to because Apple would be there unveiling their next product. Macworld was where the iMac, iBook, iTunes, Safari, the iPhone, and the MacBook Air were announced to the public. Since 2009, which was the last appearance that Apple made at Macworld, the annual expo hasn’t been the same. For starters...
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Apple announces iBooks 2 and iTunes U app
19 Jan 2012 by Craig Lloyd
After giving enough time for CES-goers to recover from a long week of gadgets, Apple hosted an event today at the Guggenheim museum in New York City that focused on education and they announced a few new digital products. iBooks 2 Reinvents the Textbook In a way to “reinvent the textbook,” iBooks 2 was announced, which brings textbooks to the forefront for high school students at an ...
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Create a WiFi signal strength map with NetSpot for Mac
05 Jan 2012 by Carl Natale
Finding the best spot for wifi access in your home or in a public place is pretty much trial and error. Turn on your laptop, and see what happens. NetSpot is a free wireless survey tool that makes it more of a treasure hunt. Once you install it on your Mac (OSX only), your laptop becomes a wifi sniffer. Before you start up the app, you’re going to need a floor plan with measurements. NetSpot...
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A Programmer’s Dilemma: Choosing between Qt and .NET
27 Dec 2011 by Brian Nelson / 2 Comments
I’ve been a programmer for a long time, but admittedly, most of my efforts have been devoted to web-based projects (PHP, ASP) and command line desktop programs with a very limited audience. Recently, I’ve decided to swallow my pride and accept that I need to learn to make desktop apps that…don’t suck. Where do I start? I’m fortunate to have a group of software enginee...
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“Batch” is the ultimate mobile photo sharing app for iPhone
02 Dec 2011 by Brian Nelson
In the smart phone era, everyone is an amateur photographer. Equipped with high-def capabilities and nearly bottomless storage, we produce a lot of photos on a daily basis which we’ve opted to share individually on Twitter or in bulk on Facebook. The problem is that sharing full albums with friends requires a bit of effort — downloading to your desktop, uploading to Facebook — wh...
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What Can The New iTunes Match Do For You?
18 Nov 2011 by Andrew Kalinchuk
iTunes Match is the newest offering from Apple, an addition to its popular music player. The new service promises to store your iTunes purchases in the cloud, as well as backing up your non-iTunes media for $25 per year. In order to use it however, you need to have iTunes 10.5.1 installed. You can find the update right here. How Does It Work? Once prompted, Match will chew through your media libr...
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Apple’s 1st Gen iPod Nano Being Recalled
14 Nov 2011 by Andrew Kalinchuk
Apple has been getting its fair share of bad press lately. With battery issues plaguing the iPhone 4S and the iOS 5.01 update making things even worse, this latest problem just adds to the drama. On the Support section of their website, Apple states that “in very rare cases, the battery in the iPod nano (1st generation) may overheat and pose a safety risk.” That can’t be good. Th...
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Oink Has Arrived — Let the Social Ranking Experiment Begin
02 Nov 2011 by Brian Nelson
After Kevin Rose’s exit from Digg, he quickly formed a team with the goal of creating apps that would challenge the conventional social/mobile experience. He called his venture Milk, and less than a year later Oink is being unleashed among the masses. Oink is a social ranking app for the iPhone and web that encourages users to “rank the adventure” by rating things they encounter ...
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Should Apple Lower Prices In Post-Jobs Era?
31 Oct 2011 by Dave Parrack / 1 Comment
It’s inevitable that without Steve Jobs at the helm piloting the Cupertino ship into the future Apple will change. What that change will be and how quickly it comes are both up for debate, but I don’t think it can be argued that everything will remain as is. After all, isn’t the very essence of Apple to ‘Think Different’? To change things around, to adapt, to be the d...
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A Steve Jobs Eulogy by a non-Fanboy
14 Oct 2011 by Dave Parrack / 1 Comment
I’m not an Apple fanboy. In fact, I rally against the Cupertino-based company and the lemmings that follow it blindly at every opportunity. I don’t own even one Apple product (although I do covet an iPad), I even avoid iTunes because the one time I did install it, it spread its tentacles deeply into my system and refused to retreat even after a lengthy uninstall. However, I was hit by ...
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