Steve Davidson sent in a great dumb question. I define great as “Clearly explained without an obvious answer, and yet I eventually figure it out.” Here’s Steve’s question: Hi, Allison. I have a stumper for you. Using my iPad, I frequently find myself putting together a document by drawing information from multiple sources (e.g., planning […]
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Photo Processing On the Go
In April I spent a week exploring Singapore, followed by three days in Melbourne, Australia and I took my “big boy” DSLR camera along to capture some of the sights. I also took a few other things with a view to solving a problem… how to take some of the 30 megabyte RAW files from […]
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Glitch.com Web Learning Tool Review by Caleb Fong
Originally I was going to compare Codepen to Glitch, but then I discovered a feature of Codepen that I didn’t realize was there and have to re-evaluate my original comparison. So today … it’s just focused on glitch.com. But I’m getting ahead of myself. What’s the problem to be solved? Namely web hosting. Server husbandry […]
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Pixelmator Photo for iPad Review
Pixelmator Photo for iPad was launched, rather fortuitously, just before I went on holiday. It turned out to be almost the perfect app for processing RAW photos from my DSLR camera while on the go. There are some key features of Pixelmator Photo that stand out for me over other iOS photo apps. Pixelmator Photo […]
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GTA Bluetooth Car Kit Review
While I admit to some envy of Allison driving around in a brand new Tesla, I’m still happy with my new car. I say new. It was new when I got it. 13 years ago. I’ve adhered to the manufacturer’s servicing program almost perfectly, including having the servicing done by them, and it has barely […]
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AirFly Bluetooth Audio Adapter Review by Sandy Foster
This is a review of the AirFly, made by TwelveSouth, an amazing little device. It is available at the TwelveSouth site or at Amazon — be sure to use Allison’s affiliate link, if you decide to shop there! At each place, the AirFly sells for $40. First, what problem does the AirFly solve? Well, how […]
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Retrobatch Review
I’ve been playing around with computer graphics since before you could reasonably display a photo on a computer screen. I’ve grown my knowledge of how to work with graphics as the technology itself has grown and, as a result of this, there aren’t many graphical tasks I don’t at least have some idea of how […]
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Followups Facebook has replaced the infamous study app that breached Apple’s Enterprise Developer Program rules and got them into so much trouble a few months ago with a new app that is not side-loaded, is explicit in what it does, and is Android only (Editorial by Bart: I’m guessing they couldn’t get a useful spying […]
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To give a little background I have been an iPhone user since the 3g was released in Ireland. Prior to that I was on a Nokia of some description, I still have it in a drawer as they are virtually indestructible. I was, at the time, reluctant to change from Nokia as I didn’t see […]
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Tesla Tech – Opening and Closing Doors
I think that the designers at Tesla studied under the school of Steve Jobs and Jony Ives when it comes to making things so minimalistic they’re actually harder to use. Remember the one-button mouse that we all wished had more buttons, so Apple actually shipped a no-button mouse? How many people miss their home buttons […]
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