Some products are harder than others to review just because of how complex they are, or because of all the different potential uses a particular program might have. Most Adobe products fit into both categories and Premiere Pro from the CS6 collection is no exception.
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With not much else to report on, tech blogs seem focused on two things concerning the iPhone 5/ iOS 6 launch. The first is that the iPhone was SUCH a disappointing launch with ONLY 5 million units sold the first weekend. ONLY 5 million sold. The only constraint wasn’t a lack of customers, but a lack of hardware. Apple probably could have sold another 5 million that first weekend if they had them, but they didn’t. So for analysts to claim that they should have sold 7-8 million is nonsense and apparently that’s the basis for their disappointment?
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When we talk about tech on this site it’s usually of a relatively recent vintage. Certainly few people want to read about computers from 30 to 50 years ago and that’s understandable. Life is short and we want our tech to be sleek and fast and able to slice through a Photoshopped image with 20 filters in less time than it took for me to write this sentence. There is one kind of tech that many of us will stop and admire no matter how much out of date it is. Even more than the space program, techies love old cars.
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Writing reviews for good products is easy…usually. However when writing about a battery pack capable of recharging an iPad like the Just|Mobile Gum Max Power Pack, the hardest part may be draining your iPad enough to need it.
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It’s the last day of the Macworld/ iWorld Expo and I feel like I owe you website readers an apology. I haven’t written much this trip and while I have a pretty good reason for it, it still doesn’t feel right. This was the “Take as little as possible to the Expo with just iOS devices to do everything I needed to” experiment.
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As said previously, I’m going all iOS this year. That means all audio, blogging, and video editing must be done strictly with the hardware and software only available through Apple’s iOS ecosystem and nothing else.
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It’s always an adventure going to the Macworld Expo. At least it is the way I do it. It’s been said that the fastest way between two points is a straight line. I rarely take a straight line anywhere. I prefer to meander between those two points, stopping to smell the flowers or if the opportunity presents itself a good steak and cheese sub.
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As I’ve been moaning about for the last year on the MyMac.com Podcast, I’m not taking a Mac laptop to the Macworld Expo this year. I’ve decided to do everything on my 1st generation iPad to include audio, video, and blogging. All edited with a trusty iOS device. Oh I’ll have my iPhone 4S too to actually record the audio and video, but everything else will be done with my iPad.
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I love my iPad. I truly do and its insanely great form and function blended together in an all around awesomely inspirational touch-based interface makes using it a joy. Just one little quandary. I hate using the onscreen keyboard.
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It’s near the end of year which means that yes, it’s time for another Holiday rant from Guy. It’s been a couple of years since I did this and with a family taking up so much of my time, I’m going to re-purpose some of the older content already published. Let’s call it something now and today. How about, ‘Re-cycled Content’. Yep that sounds nice and green and full of what ChristHannaKwanzmas should be (but isn’t) all about. To begin with, let’s go back a few years and give you the explanation of what ChristHannaKwanzmas is. READ on!
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I ordered a Godzilla mousepad for my son Peter as he (well, and the rest of us too) are huge fans of the big fella. Unfortunately the company I ordered it from made a mistake and sent the wrong one. It wasn’t that big a deal as Peter certainly has lots of other stuff to keep him busy as far as presents go. I didn’t expect an answer until after Christmas (hey, people have lives and all that) but when I got home from work tonight, the company had already responded. Here’s the email I received:
Read MoreBach (head of Microsoft’s Entertainment and Devices division) has said that the Nexus One phone from Google will fail as an overall strategy since
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My tale of woe (well…woeISH anyway) involved a Godzilla mousepad from More than Posters. Long story short, they sent the wrong one and replied almost immediately to my email which I didn’t expect being during the holidays and all that.
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DOES anyone need a tablet computer? Not really unless it’s running specialized software for inventory control, doctors, nurses, ect. Why would Apple release a device to compete in that space that’s a niche of a niche? The answer is that they wouldn’t. But a number of things have been going on that points in a few possible directions.
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The iPad currently pretty much sits alone on top of the tablet market. Sure there’s been lots of, ‘HEY! Look at ME! I’M a tablet TOO!’ contenders, mostly running some version of Google’s Android version 3.x OS, but they’ve hardly been much of a threat for a variety of reasons. Oh I’ll get to those reasons in a bit, but for the most part they’ve been like those guys you see outside popular nightclubs with the Mr. T-like bouncer glaring at them menacingly every time they step too close to the velvet rope separating the haves from the have-nots.
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Should Apple REALLY think different and stop making Apple-branded Macs? How does a Lenovo Mac sound to you?
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OK, Apple is running a new contest. The person to download the 10 billionth app will receive an iTunes gift card worth $10,000. Obviously I’M going to win this contest so no one will need to bother to even consider their worthiness. Why am I so confident? It’s all in the math baby!
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When I first heard about Apple’s Mac App Store my initial impression was this was going to be ANOTHER add-on to iTunes which needed it as much as a hole in the head.
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The Twelve Days of Macmas On the first day of Macmas, my Retailer sent to me More Ram from OWC. On the second day
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