Every year when the new shiny comes out, I find a worse way to buy my Apple products. Who can forget when the iPhone 4 came out and I stood in line how long to get it? I think it was 7 or 9 hours, can’t remember exactly. Then the next time I thought I’d […]
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Series 4 Apple Watch: How Much Different Is It in Size to Series 3?
Apple has accomplished something really extraordinary in the physical design of the Series 4 Apple Watch. They have managed to give us a far bigger display area in a watch that is barely larger than it was in the previous generations. I wanted to figure out a way to convey this without just splatting out […]
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10 Reasons to Get an Apple Watch
I was chatting with my good friend Dorothy (aka MacLurker in the chatroom and in our podfeet.com/googleplus) about the big Apple announcements and we got talking about the Apple Watch. She tends to be of the more frugal amongst us and instead of going for the new shiny, she casts a more critical eye on […]
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iThoughts Foundation – ScreenCasts Online Video
I took on the challenge of creating a tutorial for my favorite mind mapping app, iThoughts from toketaWare for Mac, Windows and iOS. Creating a screencast tutorial is the best way to learn a tool, and this one was no exception. I’ve been using it for over five years and had no idea of the […]
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Scanner Pro Takes the Pain Out of Scanning Documents
I hate scanning almost as much as I hate printing, and I really hate printing. I hate dragging out my Fuji ScanSnap scanner. I hate making room on my desk for all the unscanned papers and for the ones that shoot out of the scanner. I hate fighting with getting the pages into the scanner […]
Continue readingRowenta VU2660 is the Best Fan I’ve Ever Owned
People think of California as a really hot place and are always surprised when they come here and realize that the coastal areas really aren’t that hot. The weather people here have a standard line they replay most days: “Early morning low clouds, followed by hazy afternoon sunshine.” We can stay at a pretty much […]
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Affinity Publisher Beta – First Look
As you’re well aware, I’m a fan of the Affinity products from a company called Serif. They first came out with Affinity Photo as a challenger to Adobe’s Photoshop. Later they developed Affinity Designer as a challenger to Adobe Illustrator to compete in the vector-design arena. They’re at it again, this time with a beta […]
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Security Bits – Forced Smartphone Decryption Breaches 5th Amendment, Apple Fails to Remove Malicious App, Google & MasterCard Sharing Info
Followups Instapaper comes back to the EU at last — www.macobserver.com/… Facebook is refusing to comply with a GDPR data request, so a complaint has been lodged with the Irish Data Protection Commissioner (DPR). The DPR has opened an investigation, but has said the case is likely to get escalated from Ireland to the European […]
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Retouch Your Photos with TouchRetouch for iOS
Now that we take so many of our photos with our mobile devices, it’s even more important that we have good editing tools that fit the interface of a mobile operating system. You know I’m wild about Affinity Photo for iPad but it’s a sledgehammer of an app. Sometimes you just need to fix a […]
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Three iPad Apps to Entertain a Toddler
I remember when we had little kids, we just didn’t have nice stuff. What was the point, right? Everything was going to be covered in jelly and thrown around without discrimination. But now, our youngest child, Kyle, is 27 and he hardly ever throws his toys in the house anymore. These days, we sorta don’t […]
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