Category: 715: Mac Treat #150, Apple World’s Most Admired Company, iDonate Your iPad, iOS 4.3 Bugs

I apologize if I haven’t answered any of your emails in the past couple of weeks. I have gotten so backlogged with interference from life and travel that I am going to have to spend a whole day just getting it back under control. After getting rid of spam and junk, I still have over…

Last Wednesday, Apple released the highly anticipated iOS 4.3 for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. In retrospect, perhaps the update should have stayed in the oven until its official release date on Friday the 11th. While the incremental iOS update brings numerous enhancements to iOS device users–especially those with current gen. devices–Apple’s message boards are…

This Tuesday MacNN “*reported*”:http://www.macnn.com/articles/11/03/14/ipads.to.be.given.to.low.income.district.teachers/ Apple has launched a program enabling those upgrading to an iPad 2 to donate their original iPad to a good cause. As opposed to flipping a 1st-generation iPad to recoup the cost of an iPad 2, Apple’s program connects iPad owners with those who really need it. In a partnership with…

For a forth consecutive year, Apple has been ranked The World’s Most Admired Company by Fortune. Boasting an overall score of 8.16, the company ousted Google, Berkshire Hathaway, and Southwest Airlines, once again claiming the number one spot. Cited for its steady release schedule and continued innovations, the Cupertino giant continues to set the standard…

BTV, LAX, JFK, IAD…no, I’m not talking about those kind of airports–though JFK’s new T5 is pretty cool–I’m talking about wireless networks. If your Mac goes everywhere with you, it’s a safe bet it has joined several wireless networks in its lifetime. You may have even joined multiple networks in the same building if you…

_Dear Friends,_ I think I might be too old for red-eye flights. Boy was I beat by the time I got back to Vermont on Tuesday. I headed out to California on Sunday for meetings in Cupertino on Monday, and left that evening for the flight back east. By the time I got back to…