Category: 731: Mac Treat #158, Geotagging Your iPhoto Library, App Downloads Hit 15 Billion

Gee what will I do this weekend? I think it will involve the outside, motorcycles, exercise and summertime activities here in Vermont. We pay the price in the winter for these awesome summer days so I’m sure going to take advantage! Thank you for reading this issue of Kibbles & Bytes! Your Kibbles & Bytes…

Last week, I was working on a project when my app crashed, leaving a pile of error messages (and an irritated Kali) in its wake. My file was also no more–nothing could be recovered since there was no auto-recovery feature built-in and horror of horrors, I hadn’t saved it yet. Actually, as dramatic as that…

Actually, every __Thursday__ in the Small Dog office I crank the stereo with the sweet sounds of reggae music, which is known as “Reggae Thursday.” Peter Tosh is rocking the place right now as I write Kibbles, so I thought that a reggae special was in order. I’ve been to Jamaica many times, often trading…

This Thursday, Apple announced that more than 15 billion apps have been downloaded from the App Store since its debut three years ago. This announcement, coming less than six months after the store hit the “*ten billion download*”:http://blog.smalldog.com/article/app-store-to-hit-ten-billion-downloads/ mark, clearly exemplifies the exponential growth of the company’s mobile iOS platform and its base of over…

iPhone 4 features an incredible five megapixel camera, and with HDR support, 720p HD video and an endless array of photography enhancing apps, it’s easy to see why it has surpassed many DSLRs to become the “*most popular*”:http://www.flickr.com/cameras/ camera on Flickr. While apps such as “*Camera+*”:http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/stat?id=19XpSnZWhPI&offerid=146261&type=3&subid=0&tmpid=1826&RD_PARM1=http%3A%2F%2Fitunes.apple.com%2Fus%2Fapp%2Fid329670577%3Fmt%3D8%2526uo%253D6%2526partnerId%253D30 and “*TiltShift Generator*”:http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/stat?id=19XpSnZWhPI&offerid=146261&type=3&subid=0&tmpid=1826&RD_PARM1=http%3A%2F%2Fitunes.apple.com%2Fus%2Fapp%2Ftiltshift-generator-fake-miniature%2Fid327716311%3Fmt%3D8%2526uo%253D6%2526partnerId%253D30 are capable of mimicking the depth…

Activity Monitor is a utility application included on every Mac since Mac OS X 10.3 Panther. Essentially a task manager, the application enables users to monitor their Mac’s CPU processes, RAM usage and more. Users can also use Activity Monitor to quit rogue applications or those leaking memory. Though it is an incredibly useful asset…

_Dear Friends,_ As I was driving over Lincoln Mountain last night upon my return from dinner at the Bobcat Cafe over in Bristol, I was once again taken by just how beautiful the Green Mountains are this time of the year. As we reached the peak of the gap on the narrow mountain road, Grace…