The Reflex is a departure from Otterbox’s usual case design. It’s much sleeker and streamlined than the Defender Series, while still offering superior protection for your iPhone 4. While on the expensive side at $44.95, the level of protection you receive while still maintaining functionality is well worth the investment. I’m constantly reminded of this as I use my iPhone throughout the day.
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Level8 develops their products with a focus upon compatibility with Apple products. In fact, Level8 products can only be purchased in Apple Stores or at Apple.com. Their attention to detail and focus upon matching their bags and sleeves to Apple products is impressive. Level8’s 8 Points of Precise Protection highlights this dedication to quality and functionality.
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It’s hard to express the sense of relief I feel after the 2011 WWDC keynote by Steve Jobs today. FINALLY. Apple does get it.
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It’s no secret that I like Apple products. The only computers in our house are Macs, my wife and I both have iPhones, and I was in line to buy an iPad 2 the day it was released.
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As European Apple fans, we sometimes have to suffer from the American-ness of Apple’s product launches. But it’s not just Apple causing troubles for us; there are a lot more problems non Americans are facing. Let’s discuss a couple of points of view in this article.
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Star Walk is an app that is a skywatcher’s dream. When you first open the app, the first thing you notice is the impressive quality of the graphics. There is a tremendous amount of detail and resolution that helps make your experience on an iPad so noteworthy. The opening screen provides a wealth of astronomical data that most stargazers can appreciate. The rising and setting times and elevations of the Sun, Mars, Jupiter, Venus and Saturn accompany the impressive graphics of each of these celestial bodies. Further information on the day length is also provided with the Sun’s data. The lunar phases from yesterday to two days from now are also presented in an impressive three-dimensional view.
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Like the iTunes App Store, the Mac App Store can be browsed by Categories, Featured, or Top Charts. But there’s nothing within the Mac App Store interface that shows which apps are on sale, or have lowered their price. That’s where Store News comes in.
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Larry laments a really, really bad decision to not back up a web server for almost seven years! There are consequences.
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Two small, versatile, high-value computer accesssories: Presenter Pro Remote with Green Laser Kensington $80 XtremKey LaCie $50 to $230, depending on capacity In commando,
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Solar System for iPad initially opens with a song written specifically for the app. An instrumental version of the song “Biophillia” was written for the app by the Icelandic artist, Björk.
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Two Unusual iPad Case/Stands Reviewed by Jackie Richards, Guest Writer PowerBack Battery Case with Kickstand and Dock Kensington $90 to $130 online PowerBack is
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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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Scrivener might be the best word processing/writing app I’ve ever used.
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The advantage of (on-line and DVD) video tutorials, such as the series (“Logic Pro 9 Essential Training”) at lynda.com (membership required) and Logic 9 Explained (see below) is that you can see what’s supposed to happen as you follow along ‘” in real time if you like, with Logic running. The advantage of a book is that you have hard copy with an index for safe-keeping indefinitely. Each has its merits.
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I love technology. I may not be an early adopter, but eventually I get all the latest and greatest: Kindle, iPhone, iPad, Flip Mino…well, you get the idea. Does this make me a material girl?
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In the age of Google, Dropbox, Chrome OS, online backup, and remote access solutions, it’s pretty evident that cloud computing is already mainstream. What types of cloud computing and how much of our data is going to wind up in the cloud are issues that are still being worked out. And nowhere do those questions need to be asked more than with Apple’s MobileMe service.
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This being my first exposure to the Mac, I wasn’t impressed and felt that even Windows XP offered a better working experience. As technology progressed Vista came along and Mac OSX developed into a greater than great operating system and the hardware offered by Apple started convincing me as well.
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Orb has three products: Orb Live: $9.99 Orb Music Player: $69.00 Orb TV: $99.00 http://www.orb.com Orb has three different products which are quite similar
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I have a lot of email accounts. Probably more than I should. One is personal, one for MyMac, one for work, one for junk,
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