Category: 633: Mac Treat #96, Don Hearts MobileMe, Woz Turns 59: A Look Back, VT Tax Holiday Is Coming!

Hapy and I have a pick-up truck that we share. The other day he mentioned that he thought it was out of balance, but when he checked, it was simply a bunch of mud and rocks from the spring’s mud season that I haven’t cleaned yet. I’m going to finally do some “spring” cleaning up…

If you live in Vermont, did you know we’re about to have a sales tax holiday coming up in Vermont? On Saturday, August 22, there will be *no sales tax on items that cost $2,000 or less.* You could buy five high-end MacBook Pros for $1999.99 and not pay sales tax on a single one…

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak turned 59 Tuesday. Here are some highlights from his 59 years: *April 1, 1976:* Wozniak and Steve Jobs found Apple (Happy April Fool’s Day!) *1976:* Apple releases the “Apple I,”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_I designed and built by Wozniak *1977:* Apple releases the “Apple II”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_II *1980:* Apple goes public *1981:* Wozniak is involved in an…

*”Push” mail, contacts and calendar.* MobileMe is the cloud that stores this information so that your Macs and iPhone are always synced with the latest information. You add a contact on your phone from someone you have just met and it is automatically synced back to your Mac. You work on your calendar on the…

Telling iPhoto when it guessed incorrectly is helpful, but even more helpful is telling iPhoto to whom the errant face actually belongs. With iPhoto 8.0.2 or later, you can Control-click on a thumbnail in Confirm Name mode to assign a different name to a person. Macworld posted an excellent article about 7 Faces tips: http://www.macworld.com/article/141746/2009/07/faces_tips.html

When iPhoto ’09 was introduced as part of iLife ’09 back in January, its facial recognition feature “Faces” received a lot of attention. With Faces, you simply put a name to a face in just a few photos, and iPhoto will then suggest a set of possible matches you can confirm with a click. iPhoto…

_Dear Friends,_ It looks like summer will finally arrive this weekend in Vermont. We’ve been cheated out of summer with constant rain and cool temperatures but the forecast for this weekend is more like it–with sunny skies and temps in the 80s and 90s. Which of the 4,000 summer things that we have not been…