Category: 701: Apple Releases Aperture 3, Your Computer Is Not Compromised, 27-inch iMac Screen Issues

I was on vacation last week, enjoying some fresh powder (6 feet!) and admiring the iPad from afar (no, Steve didn’t check with me prior to scheduling Apple’s Special Event to see if I had a conflict. He’s been warned.). While on vacation, I wanted to make sure that I was still (somewhat) connected to…

A few weeks ago I “wrote”:http://blog.smalldog.com/techtails/?c=tt688 about a 27-inch iMac with screen flicker issues, and “followed up”:http://blog.smalldog.com/techtails/?c=tt694 in a later issue of Tech Tails. It seems the flickering screen and other display issues persist, and Apple released a firmware update for the 27-inch iMac to address them. If you have a 27-inch iMac, this update…

Every so often, a call comes through to our tech support department about a pop-up window saying that the computer is infected with a virus or some other malware. A larger and larger chunk of the Mac community is recent Switchers, those who’ve made the switch from Windows to Mac. If you have a computer…

Apple today announced Aperture 3, the long-awaited updated to its prosumer photo editing and management application. There are over 200 new features, many of which borrow from and expand on features found in iPhoto ’09. It’s been two years since the release of Aperture 2, and this new version is a sleek balance between evolution…

Happy Tuesday, While much of the East coast got hammered with several feet of snow, we’re still making do with an inch or two on the ground in the Mad River Valley. There are vast areas of bare ground to the north and south, and I’m thinking this winter might be a bust for snow…