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Tag Archives: article
The Macalope Weekly: Missed connections
You can almost see the “missed connection” personal ads these pundits would write: “You: gullible reader, looking for more information about the technology industry. Me: technology pundit willfully ignoring implicit costs, pushing really bad ideas, and misrepresenting survey results to generate page views.” Will they get together?! Read on! No such thing as a free lunch Writing for The Motley Fool, Steve Heller has some fun with language! “Apple Has a Siri-ous Problem.” Ahhhh, the Macalope sees what you did there! To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Continue reading
Remains of the Day: Shape up, ship out
iOS devices are in the army now, Intel’s former CEO recounts his Apple misstep, and Apple’s got its work cut out for its WWDC keynote. The remainders for Friday, May 17, 2013 lead the way. Apple Mobile Devices Approved for Use on U.S. Military Networks (Bloomberg) The Pentagon has given thumbs up to iOS 6 devices on military networks, though the Defense Department is still waiting for Apple’s much anticipated “Find My Enemies” app. Paul Otellini’s Intel: Can the Company That Built the Future Survive It? (The Atlantic) To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Continue reading
Review: Make a visual display for your data with Status Board for iPad
Panic’s $10 Status Board for the iPad is an app that fits a niche so spectacularly, it leaves you kind of breathless. Designed to display and update data from a variety of sources, Status Board offers an amazingly customizable way to display your most important data on almost any screen, from your iPad to an HDTV. Display On! Once completed, your Status Boards can be displayed on your iPad or HD TV. It’s important to note that Status Board is a niche tool; it’s not something you’re likely to use casually at home or if you only have one iPad. But it is perfectly suited to situations where you want to publicly display specific information that’s updated on a regular basis. Open Status Board for the first time, and the app walks you through a quick setup process to configure and create some of the app’s prefabbed status panels. These panels are little rectangles of data you can move, resize, and rearrange in almost any way you choose. By default, the app comes pre-loaded with calendar, clock, and weather panels, and can also display Twitter timelines, RSS news feeds, and the subject line of your latest email messages. Some of the panels allow you to customize the way your data is displayed. So, for example, your Twitter, email, and news feeds can be displayed as a either a list or as a ticker; the ticker shows one message at a time, and it slides across the screen, sits for a couple of seconds so you can read it, then slides the next update into view. I loved the ticker feed, but was disappointed there was no option for adjusting the delay setting to something slower of faster than Status Board’s defaults. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Continue reading
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Cloud cover: What Creative Cloud means to you
Are you pissed off at Adobe yet? If the answer is yes, you’re not alone. If you use at least one of the company’s professional software packages derived from the late, great Creative Suite, your life is about to change. Some 14,600 of your compatriots are so unhappy about it that they’ve added their names—and various scathing comments—to an online petition that seeks to persuade Adobe to back off its plan to transform its Creative Suite from traditional licensed software to a cloud service, and go back to its old way of doing business. Knowing that such a reversal will never happen is contributing to customers’ rage. Photoshop CC Adobe used its Max 2013 creativity conference to announce its plans to end the sale of its popular creative software—including Photoshop, InDesign, and Premiere Pro—in favor of a cloud-only subscription service. By itself, the switch was not surprising. Ever since Adobe launched Creative Cloud last year , and outlined an elaborate subscription strategy that covered nearly every segment of the market, it seemed only a matter of time before everything went to the cloud. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Continue reading
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Remains of the Day: Where in the world?
Mr. Cook goes to Washington, an Apple Store grows in San Francisco, and Mac spyware turns up in Norway. The remainders for Thursday, May 16, 2013, are going global. Apple on offense over $100B offshore stash (Politco) Yes, that’s right: Politco. Tim Cook’s giving interviews to political sites in advance of his testimony in front of the U.S. Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. The topic? Offshore holdings by Apple and other companies. In his Politco interview, Cook categorically denied funneling domestic products overseas, and said that the company paid all of the taxes it owed. Furthermore, Cook apparently plans to make some suggestions about overhauling the tax code, which will finally let those salivating tech writers drag out the “Apple tax” headlines again. Apple to open new store on Union Square (SFGate) To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Continue reading
Intel chips could have powered first iPhone, CEO Otellini says
As Paul Otellini relinquishes the reins of chipmaker Intel, the outgoing chief executive reveals in an in-depth profile that he ultimately passed on a contract to build the silicon which powered Apple’s original iPhone, a regretful decision given the handset’s wild success. Continue reading
Now you see it: How Apple’s Retina display is a boon to accessibility
iOS’s accessibility features are great, particularly on the iPad— as I’ve written elsewhere —but for disabled users, accessibility is more than just a niche set of options in the Settings app. But perhaps the greatest accessibility feature is the most obvious part of a smartphone: the screen. As a visually impaired user, my effective use of these devices depends on the quality and brightness of the screen. In order for me to achieve optimal use—especially on the iPhone, the device I use the most—I’ve found that I really need a Retina display set to maximum brightness. Pixel perfect My eyesight is such that I see “pixels” naturally, meaning that everything I see is fuzzy. While no Retina display will ever be able to completely eliminate that fuzziness, such displays can drastically reduce it. I used both the orignal iPhone and original iPad with great success with their displays set to full brightness, but seeing my iPhone 4’s Retina screen was a total game-changer (in some cases, literally). It was the combination of the big, bright LED-backlit display with the high pixel density that made all the difference. Suddenly, even the smallest text was readable, and I was able to spot details in images that were previously indistinguishable. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Continue reading
Five Dictionary tricks I can’t live without
You’ve probably ditched your paper dictionary, but do you know how to use OS X’s built-in one? This week’s video shows you how. Transcript Whether you need to know what a word means or just how to spell it, the days of leafing through hefty paper dictionaries are gone. But few Mac users really know how to make the most of OS X’s built-in Dictionary app. Today I’ll show you five tricks for doing just that. 1. Use pop-up definitions A useful, and chronically underused, OS X feature is systemwide pop-up definitions. In most Mac applications—including Safari, Mail, Pages, TextEdit, Twitter, you name it—just position your cursor over the word you want to define and press Command-Control-D. A pop-up window appears containing the definition, synonyms, and any relevant Wikipedia entry. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Continue reading
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