Posted in Apple, Ideas, iPad, iPhone, Macintosh, Tech Stuff on Jan 9th, 2012 4 Comments »
Guy English: How I’d Build an Apple Television Set The piece of Guy’s essay that appeals to me most is this: So if you’re in an Apple based household the odds are good that your new Apple TV will be able to talk to one of your other devices and get the required network info [...]
Posted in Apple, Macintosh, People, Video on Dec 15th, 2011 No Comments »
This is by far the best of the documentaries on Jobs and early Apple. It’s an hour long, make the time to see it, it’s well worth it. [via Kottke.org]
Posted in Apple, Art and Design, Macintosh, People on Nov 25th, 2011 No Comments »
The Sketchbook of Susan Kare, the Artist Who Gave Computing a Human Face I first posted about Susan Kare here: Making the Macintosh Project but I’ve known about her since the mid-1980′s because both her icon and font designs were the “face” of the original Macintosh and stayed with us for close to ten years. [...]
Posted in Macintosh, Video on Nov 16th, 2011 3 Comments »
Don McAllister of ScreenCasts Online has done a great job demoing a Macintosh application I’ve been using a while, Fantastical. I must say, I learned quite a bit from Don’s excellent presentation. The big selling point in using Fantastical as the front end to iCal is natural language input. Watch Don demo this and you’ll [...]
Posted in Apple, Macintosh, Video on Nov 6th, 2011 No Comments »
Find out how Apple’s collection of videos for users at every level on how to use Macs: getting started, moving from Windows, customizing, setting up a wireless network, using included applications like mail, calendar, address book and more.
Posted in Cloud Computing, iPad, iPhone, Macintosh, Social Software on Oct 26th, 2011 8 Comments »
Google Reader and Mac/iOS RSS readers that sync Brent Simmons has written an excellent piece on proposed changes to Google Reader and how they might affect clients like Reeder which piggy back off it. I use Google Reader to catalog and organize my various RSS feeds and have been since I dropped NetNewsWire (which Brent [...]
Posted in Apple, iPad, iPhone, Macintosh, Social Software, Tech Stuff on Oct 22nd, 2011 No Comments »
Ask Different Ask Different is a brilliantly built discussion site that allows people to ask questions about their Apple products and get a variety of answers and tips from others. I first heard about it back here and I decided to subscribe to its RSS feed for a while to see what kinds of questions [...]
Posted in iPad, iPhone, Macintosh on Oct 17th, 2011 6 Comments »
I just read on Shawn Blanc’s site about a new field in iOS 5′s Contacts app for adding a phonetic pronunciation of a name so that Siri gets it right. That same field is in the Address Book in Mac OS 10.7.2 so you can add those phonetic equivalents for your iPhone 4S and Siri [...]
Posted in Apple, Learning Disabilities, Macintosh, People on Oct 5th, 2011 11 Comments »
Dear Mrs. Jobs, My condolences for your loss. I walked up to your husband in 1984 at the West Coast Computer Faire in San Francisco and asked him to give me a then brand new Macintosh computer to take with me to Alaska to work with students and adults with learning disabilities. We talked for [...]
Posted in Apple, iPad, iPhone, Macintosh, People, Video on Oct 5th, 2011 1 Comment »
Apple has posted the video of yesterday’s October 4, 2011 Special Event. I really like Tim Cook’s style, I think he did extremely well in this new role. No doubt the pressure was on. I loved his pauses to underscore some of this points. He’s not Steve Jobs and that’s just fine. Here’s the iPhone [...]
Posted in Apple, Macintosh, Tech Stuff on Sep 27th, 2011 4 Comments »
What tiny thing in Lion makes you smile or has caught you off guard? Ask Different collected a lot of great discoveries about Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion) that make people smile. I knew about some of these but not many. Great tips. [via Hypertext (Justin Blanton)]
Posted in Apple, Creativity, Ideas, iPad, iPhone, Macintosh, People on Aug 25th, 2011 No Comments »
Steve Jobs’s Patents He’s not the sole patent holder on these but he’s been involved in pretty much everything. Amazing track record of innovation and pushing the envelope on consumer electronics. Frankly, the fact that Apple holds these patents is quite amazing in itself. [via Edward McKeown]
Posted in Apple, Learning Disabilities, Macintosh, People on Aug 24th, 2011 6 Comments »
Steve Jobs personally gave me my first Macintosh in 1984 at the West Coast Computer Faire to take to Alaska to work with kids and adults with learning disabilities. Thanks Steve, I’ll never forget that. You changed my life and helped me change the lives of thousands of people all over the world.
Posted in Canon PowerShot G12, Macintosh, Objects, Tech Stuff on Aug 13th, 2011 6 Comments »
For those of you who are Mac users, this is a self-made Mac OS 10.7 Lion install on a USB flash drive. I could have gotten a 4 gig drive but the 8 gig was cheaper. Why do this? Because Apple is phasing out optical drives and this will boot any modern Mac and do [...]
Posted in Ideas, Macintosh, Photo Printing, Process on Aug 3rd, 2011 23 Comments »
I’m becoming extremely intolerant of poor design and it amazes me that so many people tolerate it. Sometimes the end justifies the means: putting up with poor design might be justified because the product does something well in the end and its worth putting up with an unpleasant user experience to get there. My fuse [...]
Posted in Apple, Macintosh, Tech Stuff on Jul 24th, 2011 7 Comments »
Lion no longer “burps” the optical drive when you wake your MacBook Pro up from sleep. This makes me very happy. I’ve also noticed that the Bluetooth control panel’s control for allowing and disallowing bluetooth accessories to wake the computer from sleep is also working as it should. My MacBook Pro can now hibernate and [...]
Posted in Macintosh, Tech Stuff on Jul 21st, 2011 13 Comments »
Just finished installing Mac OS 10.7 Lion on this machine, will do my wife’s machine tomorrow from DVD. Before installing I did yet another complete backup with SuperDuper just so I’d be able to get back to my last Snow Leopard environment if Lion stubbed its toe on install. I highly recommend reading this and [...]
Posted in Macintosh, Tech Stuff on Jul 20th, 2011 13 Comments »
Apple has just released the newest OS upgrade for the Mac: Mac OS 10.7 Lion. Apple is not selling boxes of CD/DVDs however, they are selling Lion through the Mac App Store as a paid download. We have a few Macs in our house and a single purchase of Lion for $29.95 will cover a [...]
Posted in Apple, Macintosh, Tech Stuff on Jun 12th, 2011 No Comments »
Mac OS X Lion: What you need to know Macworld has a great overview of Apple’s next Mac OS update, Lion. How to buy it, what it will need to run, how to install it on multiple Macs, UI changes, the major new features, and more. If you plan to upgrade to Lion at some [...]
Posted in iPad, Macintosh, Photo Gear, Photography, Travel on Jun 7th, 2011 2 Comments »
On the road with a camera, an iPad, and a Hyperdrive Ben Long at Macworld does a nice job of framing the various issues of traveling (in Turkey) on a photo assignment with what sounds like a Canon 5D MK II (large RAW files), an iPad, and other tools for working with his images on [...]
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