Dave on March 19th, 2009

While on vacation in Florida, I used the Amazon mobile app for iPhone to order a pair of the new Apple In Ear Headphones. The cunundrum I had was that while IEH are usually the best for isolating sound I had yet to find a pair that I could comfortably wear. I used to have [...]

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Dave on March 18th, 2009

We ordered a new Mac Mini for my wife to use for her business. She has been using a Dell up till this time and with the new offerings from Apple, we decided now was the time to make the switch. It will be interesting to gauge her tranistion to the new platform, but I [...]

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Dave on March 8th, 2009

I have been using the Kindle app for the iPhone for a better part of this half week. So far, I am quite impressed with the application. I would not want to read all of my books on my iPhone, but when I am out and about (or held hostage at a shopping mall by [...]

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Rob Griffiths provides a helpful tip on using Smart Albums in iPhoto ‘09 to reduce the gargantuan load of tagging faces:
You can create a similar Smart Album for photos with no face entries, but there are a couple of additional steps needed to make it work better. As a first step, create a new Smart [...]

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Rob Griffiths writes for Macworld
As I looked through the specs for the new Mac Pro, iMac, and Mac mini lineup, one thing struck me: FireWire 400 appears to be essentially dead—at least as far as Apple is concerned. With the release of these new Macs, Apple sells just one machine with a FireWire 400 port—the [...]

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From Greg Kumparak at MobileCrunch:
Not looking to drop $360 bucks on a gadget purposed almost solely for book reading, but still want to partake in Amazon’s new found love for eBooks? You’re not alone – and if you’ve got an iPhone or iPod Touch, you’re in luck. As we’d assumed they would, Amazon [...]

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Dave on March 3rd, 2009

The Unofficial Apple Weblog reports:
It’s Tuesday, and the Apple Store is down (have reports from Australia, New Zealand, the U.S. and the U.K., so far).
Keep your fingers crossed for a new version of the Mac Mini!
via Apple Store is down, new Macs on the way?.

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Dave on March 1st, 2009

I spent most of my day, Saturday, driving to the Orlando Apple Store and back in an effort to revive my iPhone. The problem began on Friday. I was heading over to my Father-in-law’s home to help with a small remodeling project. I decided to leave my iPhone at the home where we are staying [...]

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Andy Ihnatko, technology free lance writer, posted this YouTube video demonstrating the new stabilization features of iMovie ‘09, part of  iLife ‘09. He used a Flip Video MinoHD Camcorder to shoot the video. Amazing stuff!

I had very similar results with a video I shot from my Canon SD1000 digicam.

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Dave on January 24th, 2009

Christina Warren from TUAW has an article at Download Squad on installing Windows 7 beta on a Mac:
Although Intel Macs can run Windows 7 in Boot Camp, for most users, the easiest and most hassle-free method will be to use virtualization. This way, you can test out all the features of Windows 7, without having [...]

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