Category: 813: Me and My…iPad, RotW: iMac Won’t Read Discs, Smilies on Your iPhone!

Turn talk into text. Instead of a keyboard, use your voice to produce text. Watch your words appear on screen in your favorite Mac applications–and up to three times faster than typing–with an astounding recognition accuracy rate of up to 99% right out of the box. This is the same technology used by Dragon NaturallySpeaking…

Mobile computing without breaking the bank. Here’s a mid-2009 MacBook with maximum RAM with it’s own sleek sleeve. It will still get the job done and leave you some cash to do something fun (like get an iPad)!

Here’s a neat trick: anyone who uses chat programs like AIM or MSN knows you can put smilies in your messages. If you type 🙂 it ends up being changed into a round yellow smilie face. My wife pointed out to me that you could do the same on an iPhone without installing a separate…

Recently, a customer dropped off a three-week-old iMac for an issue he was having with the optical drive. Every disc inserted into the drive would return an error of: “The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer.” Normally, this is a message that will pop up when an unformatted hard drive or thumb…

I absolutely love my new iPad. I loved the last iPad I had and the one before that. I know many of our readers are iPad users and many of you have already updated. I just wanted to give you my take on this device after having used it for a couple of weeks now.…

Happy April, Tech Tails readers! It’s been many years since I last wrote for Tech Tails and it’s my pleasure to introduce this issue. I’m the Director of Marketing for Small Dog Electronics, and I am returning to this position after a near six year hiatus. It was a good break for me and while…