I love the way this picture turned out. I took it from the road to NRAO off US 60 at dusk. I’m looking west, obviously. The picture has not been photoshopped or in anyway altered other than setting it as my iPhone lock screen wallpaper I have a similar image in my Sunlight album on Picasa (some rights reserved).…
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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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The email notice reads
WWDC for everyone.
http://developer.apple.com/videos/wwdc/2010/
We are pleased to offer all registered Apple Developers free access to sessison videos from the Apple Worlwide Developers Conference 2010.
Yes, the typos was in the email just as you see it.…
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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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Looks like AT&T is folding under the pressure: Your request couldn’t be processed. We’re sorry, but there was an error processing your request. Please try again later.
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Probably not a good idea to release a Mac Mini on the same day as the iPhone pre release. The store was down for 8 hours.
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So will the iPhone go on sale at midnight PT or later in the day?
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If you want a simple amplifier for your iPhone, just stick it in a glass speakers down. The glass will resonate and do all those magical things that Bose is so famous for. The bass response is not all that great so it is more suited for audiobooks and podcasts.…
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With just over a week left until Steve Jobs takes the stage for the keynote address at this years annual World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco, I am thinking about what we might see. After every keynote there is always a short-lived euphoria that results from being inside the reality distortion field followed but a postpartum depression.…
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Once of the best features of Amazon Kindle is the ability to sync your location between devices. I would love to have that ability in my Audible.com audiobooks. I often listen to books on my iPod in my car. I have the same book on my iPhone but it is very difficult to get back to the same spot.…
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Be sure you know your login credentials before updating from Tweetie 2 to Twitter 3. Since the company has changed the usernames and passwords have to be re-entered.
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Each year Apple holds its World Wide Developers Conference. This conference used to be held in San Jose but had to be moved to San Francisco when it got too big. Attendance tops out about 5,000 developers who descend each summer to Moscone West.…
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