Category: Employee Thoughts
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Fine Art and the iPad
British artist David Hockney, known for his contributions to the Pop Art movement of the 1960’s has found a new medium for creating as well as displaying his creations: the Apple iPad. Hockney, aged 73, began making doodles on his iPhone in 2008 using the application Brushes http://www.brushesapp.com/ and began emailing them to a small…
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Solid State Drives (SSDs) Are Not Perfect
Apple’s latest MacBook Air models represent the first MacBooks exclusively equipped with an SSD, or solid state drive. Instead of spinning platters, these drives use non-volatile flash memory (like that inside the drive hanging off your keychain). The SSD in the MacBook Air delivers silent, cool, reliable, and fast operation; while they are more expensive…
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Awesome Free Mac Add-ons
Apple computers come with enough software to last a decade of fun use. However, sometimes there are just things you need to do that OS X doesn’t support out of the box. Here’s a list of my favorite free Mac apps! System add-ons: NTFS-3G (SUPER–USEFUL, allows full use of Windows & Linux-formatted drives) Perian (Used…
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6th Generation iPod nano Review: Pros vs. Cons
This time last week, Apple presented attendees at their media event with a completely revamped iPod line. While updates to the iPod shuffle and touch followed a fairly linear and predictable progression, the new iPod nano deviated from the pack. Featuring a radical new design and a multi-touch based interface, the iPod drew initial reactions…
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iPad Paintings by Corliss Blakely
Corliss Blakely, a life-long Vermont artist, is now painting on the iPhone and iPad, which has “opened up a new world for artists,” as she puts it. Corliss has translated her realistic style in oils to the new technologies, stating, “the world is changing and artists now have a wonderful new canvas to create on.”…
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Where is Netflix for iPhone?
The recent speculation surrounding the Apple TV’s streaming capabilities brought another streaming service to mind. Where is Netflix for iPhone? You may remember in early June when John Ciancutti, Netflix’s VP of personalization tech, took the stage to demo the alleged app. Following the stage demo, Ciancutti announced the app would be available this summer,…
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Why It's a Great Time to Buy an iMac
About this time last week, Apple rolled out a wave of new product updates. Among them were updates to the 21.5-inch and 27-inch iMacs. After some contemplation, I’ve decided that now is the perfect time to purchase Apple’s well rounded all-in-one offering.* There are numerous enhancements which give this generation of iMacs an edge over…
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Tips to Speed Up Your iPhone 3G
With all of the fuss surrounding the elegant and speedy iPhone 4, it is easy to forget about its curved backed forebear: the iPhone 3G. While many 3Gs and iPhone 4 owners enjoy multi-tasking merriment under iOS4, plain vanilla 3G users are having a radically different experience. Instead of an enhancement, iOS4 on iPhone 3G…
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Backup of Your Backup – Part 3: RAIDS
Continuing on the the theme of redundant backups, nothing is more fitting than discussing RAIDS: Redundant Array of Independent Disks. RAIDs are commonly used by businesses and pro-users but they can also provide solutions for home users as well depending on one’s needs. While there are several types of RAID options, today we will be…
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Backup of Your Backup – Part 2: Bootable Backups
Last week, I wrote an article about the importance of having a backup of your backup. The main scope of that article was to showcase Time Machine’s “archive” feature. I received several great responses from readers who create their secondary backups in a variety of ways and I realized there seems to be a real…