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 [...]
Posted in Apple, Cloud Computing, iPad, iPhone, Macintosh, Social Software, Tech Stuff on Jun 6th, 2011 2 Comments »
iCloud Rather than speculating or attempting to follow live blogging of today’s keynote at Apple’s Worldwide Developer’s Conference, you can read the details on the new (free) cloud service at the link above. No doubt the keynote and various well produced video demos will be available soon. Also demoed today were the coming upgrade to [...]
Posted in Apple, Copyright, iPad, iPhone, Macintosh, Music, Social Software on Jun 5th, 2011 No Comments »
Music Industry’s Blessing Lifts Hopes For iCloud NPR’s Laura Sydell has a nice overview of Apple’s upcoming iCloud announcement. Worth listening to even if you know quite a bit about it already.
Posted in Art and Design, Macintosh, Tech Stuff, Travel, Video on May 25th, 2011 2 Comments »
Min Kyu Choi’s folding plug for traveling Britons This is a brilliant idea. Apple needs to hire this guy immediately. Watch the end of the video to see how he stacks them. Brilliant. I love creative design like this. [via core77]
Posted in Apple, Macintosh, Organization on May 18th, 2011 14 Comments »
If you use a calendar on your Macintosh you should try out Fantastical. It’s a small application that sits in the menubar and pulls information from iCal, Entourage, Outlook, Google or Yahoo calendars. I’m really loving it, one of the best applications I’ve found in a while, right up there with Reeder and Sparrow for [...]
Posted in Apple, Audio, Creativity, Macintosh, NPR on May 17th, 2011 No Comments »
Malcolm Gladwell Looks at Technology Innovations Robert Siegel (All Things Considered) and Malcolm Gladwell look at the mythic story of how Steve Jobs toured Xerox PARC in 1979 and came away with the basic ingredients of the Macintosh computer. This is a brief discussion of a piece Gladwell has in the May 16th issue of [...]
Posted in Apple, Gadgets, iPad, iPhone, Macintosh, Places on Apr 13th, 2011 No Comments »
Apple iPhone-maker Foxconn ponders big Brazil move Tech companies are keen to sell to Brazilian consumers hungry for high-end electronics, but gadgets are often priced out of the market because of high production costs and import tariffs. Apple’s cheapest iPad, for example, retails for about $860 in Brazil, versus $400 in the United States. India [...]
Posted in Apple, iPad, iPhone, Macintosh, SSD (solid state drive) on Apr 4th, 2011 4 Comments »
MacBook Air Evolving Into Mainstream Product? The new MacBook Air adopted an SSD-only design, introduced an 11.6″ model, and saw a considerable price drop from the previous models. This is not true. The MacBook Air doesn’t have an SSD; it has its solid state storage (flash memory) soldered onto the motherboard. This is why it [...]
Posted in Apple, Macintosh, SSD (solid state drive), Tech Stuff on Mar 24th, 2011 26 Comments »
As some of you know, almost a year ago I did an SSD upgrade on a MacBook Pro. And, if you’ve been following along, you know that I recently purchased a new MacBook Pro with Apple-supplied SSD. I have two machines sitting here, one with an OWC SSD that I put in myself, one with [...]
Posted in Apple, Macintosh, SSD (solid state drive) on Mar 23rd, 2011 No Comments »
Truly, it is made of unicorns The Air is leaps and bounds faster than my Pro, despite having a less powerful processor and graphics card. The speed gains must therefore come from the SSD drive. All computers (especially Macs) feel fast when they’re fresh out of the box. Over the months things start to slow [...]
Posted in Apple, Macintosh, SSD (solid state drive), Tech Stuff, Tools on Mar 23rd, 2011 31 Comments »
I just bought a new 15″ MacBook Pro with 2.0GHz i7 quad-core processor, 8GB memory, 512GB SSD, Hi-Res Antiglare (matte) screen. I didn’t want to buy it but my granddaughter forced me to. (wink) Backstory As some of you know I upgraded my 3 year old 2.5GHz MacBook Pro with the addition of an OWC [...]
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