What excited me most about the Apple press event today was not the 2048×1536 pixel retina display1, or the quad-core A5X CPU, or the 5MP digital camera. What excited me was the introduction of iPhoto. Now iPhoto is not as feature rich as iPhoto for OS X but it gets the jobs done. The feature list is impressive2 but the two features...
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Instapaper, Read It Later, Readability are web based services allow you to save long web pages to read later, when you have time, on your computer, iPhone, iPad, or Kindle. These web based services have native iOS that have become popular on mobile devices but desktop operating systems have gone without.
On the Mac, the only option...
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The word is out, Apple will release a new version of OS X this summer. I got news of this from a friend who is a Mac developer. The interesting thing he pointed out to me was that Apple dropped the word “Mac” from the OS. It’s just OS X Mountain Lion. After looking over the previewed feature list I can understand why. OS...
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UPDATE: A writeup on TUAW suggest that certain features are missing from the update.
Last night Apple released version 6.0 of the Apple AirPort Utility for the Mac as well as Time Capsule Firmware Update 7.6.1. The new release does not appear to have gained any new features or fix any bugs. However AirPort Utility 6.0 has been...
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When Apple released the iPhone 4 last summer they added a front facing camera and updated iOS with a new application called FaceTime. FaceTime allows two people with iPhone 4 to video chat. The feature is very popular with parents who travel a lot. They can use FaceTime to stay in touch with the kids or other loved one. The...
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It’s been almost two months since Apple launched the Mac App store on January 6. The Mac App Store is Apple’s attempt to bring the same easy of use of the iTunes App store to Mac app purchase and installation. While it does not quite deliver on that promise it does make things simpler than they have been in the past. It’s a...
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