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Reflection — Screencasting on the iPad just got a lot easier

RickMacMerc — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 21:10:52 +0000

Since I got my iPad 1, I’ve been looking for an effective way to screencast tutorials for it. Jailbreaking The easiest way was Jailbreaking it, but that meant changing my iPad in ways that was going to bite me in the ass on the next iOS update. Hardware Another way was using the 30-pin dock [...]

Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion …what you need to know

RickMacMerc — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 19:08:23 +0000

This morning Apple issued a press release announcing the developer preview of it’s upcoming upgrade to Mac OS X, code named… drum roll… Mountain Lion!1 What’s the big deal with Mountain Lion? Apple says it has over 100 new features but, as we all know, not all features are created equal and some will go [...]

Rick shares his picks for Thanksgiving iPad apps

RickMacMerc — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 23:04:25 +0000

In Canada, due to our earlier harvest, we celebrate Thanksgiving in October. So, just as soon as we’ve stopped remarking, “Can you believe the summer is over already?” we start into marveling at the fact that it’s time to think turkey and stuffing. In this visit to Urban Rush, I demonstrate five iPad apps that [...]

Back to School iPad apps

RickMacMerc — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 20:53:43 +0000

The iPad App Store is a vast confusing marketplace. So many apps! No way to really test them before buying them! You need someone to seek out the great apps and advise you. I am that someone. The following iPad apps are the ones I chose to present on Urban Rush on September 16, 2011. [...]

Rick Yaeger is The App Man on Urban Rush

RickMacMerc — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 01:39:36 +0000

In my first of hopefully many appearances on Urban Rush, I am dubbed “The App Man” and demonstrate a few cool apps for your iPad. As with any live tech demo, not everything goes according to plan. But I must admit, not everything that went wrong was entirely unplanned. Apps demo’d: LEGO Harry Potter: Years [...]

How to do a hashtag on a Mac

RickMacMerc — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 18:02:39 +0000

This post, originally called “How to do a Hashtag on a Mac… or anything else for that matter”, has been updated due to the help of a few readers who pointed out my mistake: not everyone who uses a Mac uses a US or Canadian keyboard and, outside North America, the keyboard mapping between PC [...]

Bodega: The Mac Apps Store for the rest of us

RickMacMerc — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 22:56:10 +0000

If you were watching the “Back to the Mac” presentation by Steve Jobs1last week, you heard about the upcoming Mac OS X 10.7 Lion and the announcement of a Mac Apps Store. Jobs suggested that people like the iPhone Apps Store and how it’s so easy to find new software and buy it all from [...]

Things to do with an old MacBook Air: Blow it up!!

RickMacMerc — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 07:03:11 +0000

Scott Gawlik from Crazy Cow Productions submitted this cinematic curiosity. The guys picked up a couple of M-1000 explosives in Chinatown and decided to send their now-outdated-but-not-quite-obsolete MacBook Air to a higher place. It puts me in mind of Jonathan Coulton’s “A Laptop Like You” where he sings… In a year or two You will [...]

VIDEO: The Incident… an awesome game you can play on your iPad with your iPhone

RickMacMerc — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 15:43:41 +0000

The Incident might sound like Jersey Shore‘s “The Situation‘s” little brother, but it is really an addictive retro-style game for your iPhone, iPod touch or iPad. In the Big Bucket Software game you play Frank Solway, our hero, as the world comes crashing down all around him. We’re not really sure why, but a multifarious array [...]

VIDEO: Screen Shots to the extreme with Skitch

RickMacMerc — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 16:52:31 +0000

Last time we looked at taking screen shots on your Mac using just your Mac’s built-in powers of awesomeness. This time we take it up a notch. Skitch is a free desktop application and web service1 from Plasq that allows you to easily take the same kind of screen shots you can take on your [...]