Review

PixelPipe: Upload 720p HD video from iPhone 4 to YouTube

July 6, 2010 How To
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I saw a recent Apple Byte episode in which host Brian Tong mentioned that there is no way to upload a full 720p HD copy of a video captured on an iPhone 4 without first syncing to a computer. I can imagine why he would think that. Just a few days after getting my shiny [...]

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Review: Reeder for iPad

June 22, 2010 Review
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I’m a tech news junkie.  I want to know what’s going all the time.  One of the first apps I installed on my iPad was NetNewsWire.  That is my favorite RSS reader for my Mac and it made sense to use it on the iPad.  NetNewsWire syncs my feeds across multiple computers via Google Reader. [...]

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My first 31 days with the iPad

June 2, 2010 Review
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It’s been exactly one month since I received my iPad Wi-Fi 3G on April 30th.  In the last 31 days the iPad has become my go to device for almost everything.  Each morning, after I prepare for my day, I walk over to my night stand where I lay the iPad before I turn out [...]

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My iPad 3G: The first two days

May 4, 2010 Review
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My iPad arrived just after noon On April 30th. I worked from home that day, ears keenly tuned to the sound of my doorbell chime. From my window seat I saw the Fedex truck pull up and ran to open the front door before the delivery man had time to ring the doorbell. My wife [...]

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ShareTool – remote access for any Mac application or service that uses Bonjour

December 31, 2009 Review
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When my MobileMe account came up for renewal, I let it expire. I did not need it. I had found cheaper and better alternatives. When Apple’s $99 MobileMe service was released I was quick to register. With MobileMe I could access my mail, contacts, and calendar information in the “cloud” and keep everything in sync [...]

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OmmWriter Beta – Zen writing for the Mac

December 13, 2009 Review
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I was catching up on reading the news feeds this morning when I came across a post on the smoking apples blog about a new text editor called OmmWriter. I’m not sure why I downloaded it. Maybe because of what OmmWriter’s cleanly designed web site promised. So here I am writing this blog post in [...]

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