News: “A look at the framework of Apple’s iPad ad”

Posted: March 8th, 2010 | Author: Rex | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , | No Comments »

A look at the framework of Apple’s iPad ad on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
Topics: IBook, Safari

Filed under: iPad The iPad , like the iPhone , used the Oscars to make its ad debut . As is typical with an Apple ad, the iPad’s ad featured a montage of different uses for the device, all while set to the backdrop of a catchy tune. In…


News: “Apple: It is all about the UI and the User Experience”

Posted: February 26th, 2010 | Author: Rex | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , | No Comments »

Apple: It is all about the UI and the User Experience on Asus Eee News, Mods, and Hacks
Topics: MacBook, MacBook Pro, Safari

Something there must be about Apple products that makes old jaded techno hearts like mine skip a beat or two. Where the Kindle and the Nook both merited half-serious considerations in recent months while I searched for an cost-effective ebook reader,…


News: “5 tips for switchers”

Posted: February 23rd, 2010 | Author: Rex | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , , , | No Comments »

5 tips for switchers on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
Topics: Mac OS X, Mac OS X v10.5, MacBook Pro, IBook, PowerBook G4, MacBook, Safari, System Preferences

Filed under: Switchers, Tips and tricks Every now and then I’ll have an “I never knew about that” moment as I come across a setting or nuance in Mac OS X that I never realized existed. Take, for instance, character viewer, which allows you to display…


News: “Ask TUAW: Key remapping in Boot Camp, iPad tethering, file-sharing with a media extender, and more”

Posted: February 19th, 2010 | Author: Rex | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , | No Comments »

Ask TUAW: Key remapping in Boot Camp, iPad tethering, file-sharing with a media extender, and more on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
Topics: Mac OS X, Boot Camp, MacBook, AirPort, Safari, Automator

Filed under: Features, Troubleshooting, Ask TUAWWelcome back to Ask TUAW, our weekly troubleshooting Q&A column. This week we deal with some technical issues on our production Mac before turning to questions about Windows key remapping in Boot…


News: “Ghana: African programmers developing games for iPhone”

Posted: February 19th, 2010 | Author: Rex | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , | No Comments »

Ghana: African programmers developing games for iPhone on Global Voices Online
Topics: ITunes, Safari, MacBook

Programmers, Eyram Akorfa Tawiah from Ghana and Wesley Kirinya from Kenya are co-founders of Leti Games, a Ghanaian start-up building games for the iPhone and other gaming platforms. Their names would soon become a household one soon after their…


News: “How Unique Is A Unique Visitor?”

Posted: February 17th, 2010 | Author: Rex | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , | No Comments »

How Unique Is A Unique Visitor? on A VC
Topics: MacBook Pro, MacBook, Safari

I access the web each day from at least seven browsers;  Chrome on my macbook pro,  Firefox on my macbook pro,  Chrome on my windows desktop in the office,  Firefox on our “kitchen laptop”,  Safari on our “kitchen…


News: “10 reasons to pass on the iPad? TUAW fact check”

Posted: February 3rd, 2010 | Author: Rex | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , , , , | No Comments »

10 reasons to pass on the iPad? TUAW fact check on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
Topics: MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, IWork, Mac OS X, ITunes, MacBook, IDisk, ISight, Safari

Filed under: iPod Family, Portables, Odds and endsOver at TechRepublic’s 10 Things blog, Debra Littlejohn Shinder has posted an article called “10 reasons why I’ll be passing on the iPad.” Some of her reasoning is sound, but quite a few of her points…


News: “Rumor: Apple Has Another Tablet In The Works. More Like A Mac Than An iPhone.”

Posted: February 1st, 2010 | Author: Rex | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , | No Comments »

Rumor: Apple Has Another Tablet In The Works. More Like A Mac Than An iPhone. on TechCrunch
Topics: MacBook Pro, IWork, MacBook Air, MacBook, Safari

In the movie Contact, when revealing to main character Ellie Arroway (Jodie Foster) that there is actually a second space travel machine that was being built at the same time as the first one, but in secret, S.R. Hadden (John Hurt) says, “why…


News: “Left Out”

Posted: January 29th, 2010 | Author: Rex | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , | No Comments »

Left Out on TechCrunchIT
Topics: MacBook Air, Safari, MacBook

Fear of iPad is now beginning to circulate with increasing velocity. It seems folks are realizing that regardless of how many things were left off the machine, it still will be bought by virtually everybody on the planet who cares about tech and its…


News: “★ Various and Assorted Thoughts and Observations Regarding the Just-Announced iPad”

Posted: January 28th, 2010 | Author: Rex | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , | No Comments »

★ Various and Assorted Thoughts and Observations Regarding the Just-Announced iPad on Daring Fireball
Topics: Mac OS X, Mac OS 9, MacBook Pro, MacBook, Safari

Automatic Transmission Used to be that to drive a car, you, the driver, needed to operate a clutch pedal and gear shifter and manually change gears for the transmission as you accelerated and decelerated. Then came the automatic transmission. With…