tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-151914422024-12-18T22:26:20.715-05:00Opinions<br>Tips &amp; Tricks for Mac You Ought To KnowUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger65125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15191442.post-18734391719813641332011-10-25T00:22:00.002-04:002011-10-26T13:02:43.510-04:00

I found this short excerpt of Steve's interview in 2010 D8, a time when he was already publicly and visibly known to be quite ill. During the Q&A session, a member of the audience asked Steve if he would add anything to his famous speech in Standford; the question struck him with deep emotions that was rather unexpected from a figure like him. It is quite remarkable that, knowing what was

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Bookstores everywhere is scrambling to put the hard copies of Steve Jobs biography by Walter Isaacson on display this morning. E-book sellers have already started selling the electronic versions since midnight. Source: Simon And Schuster You can get a copy of Steve Jobs biography atApple's very own iBook store: Steve Jobs - Walter IsaacsonAmazonBarnes & Noble Hurry in and get your copy

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Apple has made available the video archive of its internal event on October 19, 2011 celebrating the life of Steve. Apple stores worldwide closed momentary to allow its retail employees to participate in the event via live cast. Go to this site on Apple to watch the event while still available. The event was hosted by Tim Cook, the new Apple CEO. Al Gore and Jony Ive were among those who gave

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When it comes to 2-way communication, Siri is quite limited. Before I go further on this allegation, let me make myself clear that I think Siri's natural language parsing is by no means a small achievement. Seeing it in action I spent a little time with Siri today and made this video to share: Overall, Siri is very good at understanding natural English, to the point that you have nearly no

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The stock market has been on a roller coaster ride lately. Today is historical in the corporate history of Apple, not so much in overtaking the largest oil company in market capitalization as reaching its highest price per share yet, at $418.75 shortly after the morning bell. All that from a company that nearly failed a decade ago.

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Today I took a trip down to the local Apple Store here in Houston Galleria, and saw this remarkable scene. Eulogy for Steve Jobs at Apple Store, Houston. Looking at the eulogy written allover the window on Post-it® Notes , I found Arabic, Chinese, Spanish, Portuguese, English, and many other languages. As you can see in the pictures above, there is even one coming from the Andriod nation. I

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Here are the new features in the Calendar app in action. I am using the iPad to demonstrate the tricks, but the operations are essentially identical on the iPhone.

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"What's that?" you said. Yup, remember the Week view we saw in earlier post? Turns out, even when your device is in portrait mode, you can go to the adjacent dates just by swiping left or right. That's right, just like how you navigate pages of apps on the home screen. Should've thought of that long ago, Apple. Just saying. By the way, when you move an event by touch (see previous post), you

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The Calendar app in iOS5 is shipped with some new and useful tricks that is going to make your schedule making a little more touchy-feely.The Long-Press GestureUp until iOS4, the only way to add a Calendar event is to tap the "+" button on the top right corner in the app.New in iOS5, when in Day view, you can long-press anywhere with open slots, and a new event will appear on the screen right

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By now you should have learned that iOS 5 is officially released. Without further ado, let's go over the steps to upgrade your iPhone / iPad / iPod Touch to the latest operating system: Make sure you remember your Apple accountThe account you use to purchase items from iTunes and the App Store will be your iCloud account. You will need that for iOS 5. Have it ready and it will come in handy

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Today the world misses Steve Jobs. A man of his influence and celebrity status reaching far beyond the tech community, Steve had fiercely defended his and his family's private lives. It is a relief to learn that he was able to be with his dearest ones in his last days. A statement from Steve's family:Steve died peacefully today surrounded by his family. In his public life, Steve was known as

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Comes tomorrow, Apple will be unveiling the new iPhone (whatever that comes after iPhone 4), iOS5, and maybe more. In many ways, tomorrow's event and its aftermath will be very uncertain; exhilarating, but uncertain. The Post Steve Jobs Apple It baffles me that we still see no shortage of pundits flirting with the idea of receiving yet another dose of epinephrine-inducing encore called "One

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The clock is ticking down as I type this post. It's less than 24 hours to iPad's launch. The who's-who from Good Morning America to David Letterman have been recruited to the Apple's hype machinery in the last hours, and yes the hype is rebuilding since the product announcement back in January 2010. But Apple has also given everyone 60 days and a few videos to consider over buying this "magical"

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In case you haven't heard of it, and you are seeing this writing TODAY, you can download CrossOver for free - today only!CodeWeavers, the famed Mac developer, had charged itself the Great American Lame Duck Presidential Challenge, with one of the criteria being oil price dropping to $2.79 per gallon, among other things. Lo and behold, it came true! And as promised, CodeWeavers is giving out

Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15191442.post-69501535691784106972008-08-28T01:09:00.008-04:002008-10-28T22:07:28.925-04:00

The Apple rumor mill is once again running in full throttle, this time clamoring that Apple will be unveiling the next generation iPod some time in September 2008. Some believe (or hope) that Apple will also refresh the Macbook product line. Speculate away! What's fun about Apple if it isn't worthy of speculation anymore? But honestly, each time when the tech community gets jittery about possible

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Microsoft's little chat program for Mac is not dead. In fact, it is very much alive, so much alive that it is now part of Windows Live.The new version supports bonjour networking within your LAN. There is also a new search function inside the contact list that mimics Spotlight search. That's about all for the consumer side of it. The corporate features are a little bit more exciting, but I find

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We all do a little article research once a while. Whether you found the articles from online journals or through the course reserves in your college library, chances are, they come in PDF format. If you are like me, you wouldn't care to print the articles out; reading them in Preview does it, thank you very much.When reading on paper, we like to make the black-and-white printouts a little more

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MacNify proudly presents the MacNify widget version 2.0. The widget gains new look, consistent with the new Leopard theme on the website. Underneath the new shiny surface are great improvements including: A lot more reliable RSS feed control. Ability to control length article summary on the widget. Download Get MacNify Widget. As always, MacNify is a great way to discover cool and useful Mac

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Do you love the crisp, clean text and graphics your mac is capable of producing on your screen? Sure do... but not everyone does. The grandpa and grandma of the mac users do need serious magnification in order to see the incredibly small and defined objects on the flat panel.Again, MacNify is spilling out the coolest trick to get things done - in this case, blowing your screen.The trickHold the "

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The "Get Info" window is one true hidden gem in Mac OS X. One of the features you will find in Get Info is an option called "Stationery Pad", which basically allows you to create a template out of virtually any file. You can imagine how useful this will be, especially if you always have to create new documents using the same style and formatting, or do calculations in Excel with the same old set

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What fun is there with keeping photos if you can't share them?Thanks to Flickr, now every can share photos easily. Even if you do not have a Flickr account, you most probably have a Yahoo account, which can be used as your Flickr account right away. Goto flickr.com and set up your account now!Easy uploading of photosThanks to the upload tool created by the Flickr team, now you can drag-n-drop

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Your friend has just sent you a bunch of photos over the internet, and you are deciding to keep those that you like in iPhoto, and ditch the rest.What is the most gratifying way to carry out the task, and to do it in style?Set up a SlideshowThe photos you got from your friend are most probably wrapped in a zip file. After unzipping them, the photos can be found in a new folder.Here is how you can

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For the privacy-aware Internet users, Safari's Private Browsing is great. But it has a major downside: you cannot set it as system default, meaning you need to activate it every time you think NOT saving private data is crucial.If you really need that kind of privacy and find Safari's implementation tedious, then forget about Safari altogether. Try Firefox instead.Protect Private Data Using

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I recently changed the hosting service to another service provider. What follows is the change of downloading links of the MacNify Widget and the Toggle Widget-On-Top mini app. It may take a while for the guys at Apple to update their widget listings, so here on this post I am providing the links for you to grab those goodies.DownloadsMacNify Widget. Tips and tricks for Mac you ought to know!

Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15191442.post-1152115201508673792006-07-05T11:57:00.001-04:002008-03-29T21:39:28.967-04:00

Ever since the video playing capability is added to the iPod, the truly convenient and easily accessible method for converting one's existing video files into iPod is simply, well, missing.Then comes iTunes 6.0.5, in which Apple is finally compelled to make the long overdue feature standard and one-click away for the rest of us. Hooray!At last, we can bypass Quicktime Pro which asks for a fee, or

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