The folks that brought us Pokemon Go have partnered with the Harry Potter and Warner Brother media empire to bring us Harry Potter Wizards Unite. The media says its like Pokemon Go but better with more character depth. I downloaded the free app to try it out but got stuck when I was presented with only two options to share my personal information.…
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Every year about this time, I’m tempted by the allure of a suite of new operating systems for my computer and mobile devices. This year is no different except for the addition of iPadOS which has the promise of letting my backward corporate web applications be functional on my primary daily device.…
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Stop trying to remembers your passwords. Just get Lastpass. Install it on your phone and computer. Pay the annual fee ($12). Done. Let Lastpass generate and remember crazy safe passwords for you. Have a unique safe password for every site. Store secure notes as well.…
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WWDC 2014 starts in about a week. I’m sure that by this time next week there will be a line around Moscone West waiting to get in to hear what new offerings Apple has for their community. I was lucky enough to have been in that line over a dozen times going back to the late 90’s when the event was held in San Jose.…
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The current rumor is that we will have an announcement about the iPad 2 on February 9th. This is roughly one year from the original announcement so this make sense. I would assume they would announce at that time a release date in March.…
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The Apple Computer centric web site
MacNews has a new posting about software for birding and bird watching.
http://www.macnews.com/2010/11/12/category-review-birdingbirdwatching-software-mac-os-x
In addition to these titles there are a number of apps in the iTunes App Store for your iPhone. Some are silly and others are addictive games (Angry Birds).…
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Great source of classic books in EPub format available for free and compatible with iBooks on iPad
http://www.epubbooks.com/genre/science-fiction
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Growl is a notification system for Mac OS X. Howl is a program for receiving those notifications on your iPhone or iPad. Now you can run a long processor script on your Mac and have your computer notify you when it is done.…
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