Category: Macintosh
March 18, 2010
Amazon said next year and, well, it’s next year. Still, Kindle for Mac arrives sans a couple of important features, including full text search and note taking, with a promise to deliver them, as well as software for the iPad, at some undetermined date.
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Posted in Mac, Mac software, Macintosh, iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, news | No Comments » Posted by: Ronald O Carlson
March 17, 2010
NPR and The Wall Street are known to be remaking, at least in part, their sites in order to service Apple’s Flash free iPad. And, to my mind that’s a good thing™. However, why not let anyone with an aversion to Adobe’s buggy and resource hungry multimedia plugin connect to these Flash-free havens?
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Posted in Adobe, Mac, Mac software, Macintosh, iPad, opinion | 1 Comment » Posted by: Ronald O Carlson
March 16, 2010
Let the haters rail! Of the guys with their feet in the enterprise mud, a large a majority of those with dual platform experience are saying the support cost leader is the Mac with users of the fairer platform using 20 percent fewer resources.
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Posted in Apple, Mac, Mac software, Macintosh, Security, Windows, news, opinion | 1 Comment » Posted by: Ronald O Carlson
March 16, 2010
Whatever oxygen — think profit — was left in the consumer computer market is now or will soon be owned by Apple. Whereas Mac sales grew steadily throughout most of the recession, now Apple’s computer sales are quite literally booming.
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Posted in Apple, Mac, Macintosh, iPod, news | No Comments » Posted by: Ronald O Carlson
March 12, 2010
Fire up Software Update because Apple’s got an important download for you. This maintenance release of the company’s popular WebKit-based browser offers important feature tweaks and fixes, including improved third-party plug-in stability (i.e. Flash) improvements.
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Posted in Adobe, Apple, Free Software, Leopard, Mac, Mac software, Macintosh, Updates, Windows, news, snow leopard | 1 Comment » Posted by: Ronald O Carlson
March 8, 2010
For pretty much everyone else selling stuff, Christmas 2009 was so-so at best. However, Apple not only posted yet another record holiday vis-a-vis Mac sales, the company saw computer volume shoot up over 30 percent in January, as well.
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Posted in Apple, Mac, Macintosh, news, opinion | No Comments » Posted by: Ronald O Carlson
March 7, 2010
One of the first things you’re likely to notice after connecting a Mac mini to your TV is the smudgy black appearance of text and lines, for example, which can make navigation difficult for some users. Here are a pair of free apps, both from the same clever guy, to sharpen the picture.
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Posted in Apple TV, Free Software, Mac, Mac software, Macintosh, OS X, Tips, Tutorials, mac mini, snow leopard | No Comments » Posted by: Ronald O Carlson
March 6, 2010
With Safari users suffering badly from a range of Flash-related problems, users are looking for relief. Thereupon, from improved plugin load times to a fix for a JavaScript issue in the current release, as well as improved HTML5 video playback, the next release of Safari promises a lot.
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Posted in Apple, Free Software, Mac, Mac software, Macintosh, news | No Comments » Posted by: Ronald O Carlson
March 5, 2010
Yesterday, there was rampant speculation during the Developer Center Web site outage that Apple would announce important changes to its mobile — iPhone, iPod touch, iPad — program. Now, with the site back online, the changes have happened on the Mac side.
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Posted in Apple, Mac, Mac software, Macintosh, iPad, iPhone, iPod, iPod Touch, news | No Comments » Posted by: Ronald O Carlson
March 4, 2010
Here’s a brilliantly simple way to download YouTube videos without any additional software or using a dodgy online conversion service. So, saddle up — you’re one simple keyboard shortcut away from downloading anything you want whenever you want.
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Posted in Free Software, Mac, Mac software, Macintosh, Quicktime, Tips, Tutorials | 1 Comment » Posted by: Ronald O Carlson