Yesterday Apple announced that anyone with an iPad, iPhone 4, or iPod touch (4th generation) that is running iOS 4.2 can sign up for
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Author: Scott Willsey
Scott is a long time Apple enthusiast whose first personally owned computer was the original 128k Macintosh introduced in 1984. He has 35+ years of computing experience, working with Apple II, Mac OS X, Windows, and a variety of flavors of Unix and Linux, and (of course!) iOS.
Scott can be reached on Twitter at @scottaw and his website is at saw66.com.
Callpod Vetro Bluetooth Headset – Review
I’m not traditionally a headset person. I have always despised the telephone for being a monoaural device. Using only one ear makes me feel like I’m using one side of my brain, and conversations require both.
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Photoshop CS5 HDR Pro and O’Reilly HDRI and PS CS5 Webcast – Review
As digital photography has rapidly increased in popularity in recent years, so have advanced photographic techniques such as High Dynamic Range Imaging, commonly known as HDR. Digital cameras are limited in the range of light intensity they can handle in a given scene. Situations with both very bright and dark areas will exceed the dynamic range capability of the camera sensor.
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Nano Nano
Apple claims that statistics show that most previous model iPod nano owners were not making use of the video recording capabilities. And though Apple wouldn’t openly admit it, the camera on the nano was nothing to brag about. Compare it to even an older Flip Mino and you’d probably never use the nano camera again.
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Book Review – Take Control of Apple Mail in Snow Leopard ebook
Take Control of Apple Mail in Snow Leopard is 133 pages, and covers every conceivable aspect of Apple’s Mail application. The book walks you through setting up accounts, reading and searching messages, address and contact handling, sending email, encryption and signed email options, managing mailboxes, synchronizing mail across multiple devices, and many more Mail related topics.
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AppleCares, and so should you!
One of the joys of buying consumer electronics is having to decide whether or not to purchase a warranty for your shiny new toy. Most warranties are fairly limited, expensive, and generally worth thinking about carefully before deciding to purchase. But not so with AppleCare. AppleCare is a no brainer. If you’re considering buying an Apple product, and you’re not planning on getting AppleCare, then Lucy, you have some ‘splainin to do.
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Back to the Future with Phone Supersizing
As an iPhone 3GS owner, I’ve been watching with interest as companies have started releasing Android phones with larger screens. The Motorola Droid X
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Review – Norton Online Backup 25 GB
Symantec is well known in the PC world for their security and antivirus products, among others. They also have traditional backup and system imaging solutions, so branching into online backup services seems like a natural extension for them. Given their experience in providing software and services to the huge Windows market, I was excited to see how their online backup offering stacked up to the competition from a Mac user’s point of view.
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Mac the Shutterbug
Digital photography has revolutionized the photography industry. I remember when, for most people, learning about photography primarily centered on learning the craft up to the point of removing the film from the camera and sending it in to get it processed. Sure, I dabbled in black and white film developing and photo printing in the early 80’s, but anything other than black and white print film was beyond my capacity to deal with myself. Now, thanks to digital cameras, computers, and specialized software, photographers have a whole other facet of photography to enjoy learning and mastering.
Read MoreiPhone: The Missing Manual, 3rd edition, and iPhone For Dummies, 3rd edition
Reviews
Convincing people to purchase a book about a product as intuitive as the iPhone might seem like a difficult task, but in the 3rd editions of their respective iPhone books, the popular The Missing Manual series and the ubiquitous For Dummies series have both released books worth recommending to almost any iPhone owner.
Take Control of Exploring and Customizing Snow Leopard – Book Review
Take Control of Exploring and Customizing Snow Leopard by TidBITS Publishing provides comprehensive information for efficiently and productively using the latest version of Apple’s OS X operating system.
Tweetie 2 Costs Money?!
Yesterday, I went to work. I did several hours of troubleshooting and repair on a complex piece of equipment. As part of that, I
Read MoreMailPlane – Review
MailPlane makes working with Gmail accounts through the web as smooth and comfortable as dealing with email using a standard mail client such as Apple Mail. A review from new MyMac.com writer Scott Willsey!