Tag: Apple
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The Tablet Cometh: Some thoughts on Apple’s announcement
Next Wednesday, Apple will host one of the most anticipated technology announcements of the year, perhaps of this still-fresh decade. The reason for this level of attention is that everyone anticipates that Apple will re-launch a device that the industry has been trying to make work for 20 years — the Tablet computer. As some pundits…
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How to view PDF files on your iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch with DropBox
Dropbox really is an amazing computing and file sharing application. I was initially introduced to it when I needed to easily share files with various computers across the internet — and email was not an option. Recently my wife asked me for another solution to viewing PDF files on her iPod Touch. She’d been using…
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The keys to the library
Given all the hype eBook readers are getting these days, especially during and after CES, I thought I’d explore which was more valuable, the data object, or the data. …more This post is an excerpt from one of my weekly posts on the Future Shop Techblog. Check out the full post here.
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Look! Over there!! It’s a Tablet…but wait, there’s another…
One Tablet, two tablets, three tablets, four. This week’s a zoo, I can’t take it any more! …more This post is an excerpt from one of my weekly posts on the Future Shop Techblog. Check out the full post here.
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Three tech stocking stuffers
By now you should have had all your major gifts bought, wrapped and out of the way, but what about the little things, the cool tech toys that just fit in that stocking, hung by the chimney with care. Fear not, I’ve got a stocking stuffer list that will help you out in these final…
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This is the week that was
Tablet rumblings, a new Google Phone, and Privacy. …more This post is an excerpt from one of my weekly posts on the Future Shop Techblog. Check out the full post here.
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This is the week that was
Google hogged all the lime-lite (and bandwidth) this week with a flurry of announcements. Everyone else seemed to be frozen in their tracks, except for Microsoft, who had to dig out of a bing! fail. And we got über snow on the prairies 😉 …more This post is an excerpt from one of my weekly…
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Things to do with your new iPad, iPod Touch or iPhone
Black Friday has come and gone, and you’ve likely got a new gadget, gizmo or toy — I’m going to assume it’s an iPod Touch or iPhone — which is a perfect opportunity for me to dig into my archives and pull out a few posts that may help you and your new baby. 5 favourite…
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Finally. The must-have app for your iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch
I’ve been in love with Dropbox for a while now, so much so I’m promoting it in my adspace in my sidebar. Dropbox has made it much much easier to transfer files between computers. Sure, I could email them, but that’s not at all elegant. All I do with Dropbox is copy a file to…
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Best music player ever gets an update
I caught Songbird’s updated (back in June) but hadn’t paid attention to what was new with it. I wrote about the previous update here and loved the fact that Songbird finally got watched folders. Well, it seems that in this latest update there was one significant new feature (for me). Songbird added an Equalizer. This is…
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Snow Leopard makes me switch to Windows XP
Last week was full of excitement by Macintosh fans as Apple released the new update to the OSX operating system — Snow Leopard. I was interested and took a look at the buzz and the business side of the release in a post over at the Future Shop Techblog. Then I rolled up my sleeves…