One of the most popular activities at any modern office office is the conference call. Of course as time and technology allows, the conference call has morphed into audio/video/web conferencing. When you’ve only got one person on each side of the “call”, it really doesn’t matter what hardware or software you use… or the call [...]
Archive of posts filed under the Apple category.
Your iPhone 5 prep-kit
Last Friday night, roughly two million people in the United States, myself included, stayed up for the iPhone 5 pre-order. It was a whole lot of hurry up and wait, with this week being the ultimate wait. As Friday’s release date approaches, phones start to ship, and everyone is starting to get antsy… don’t forget [...]
MacBook Pro with Retina supports at least 4 screens
Yesterday someone asked me about multi-monitor support for our work machines. I rattled off the standard statistics for Dells, MacBook Airs, MacBook Pros… then realized I wasn’t sure what the Retina Pro supported. This could not stand, so I had to go test it out! The Retina has 2 Thunderbolt ports plus 1 HDMI port. [...]
Review: MacBook Pro with Retina
When the MacBook Pros with Retina display were first announced, I figured we’d never buy them at work because they were more expensive. As it turns out, if you take a non-Retina MacBook Pro and add 8 GB RAM and a 256 GB SSD which makes the system specs identical to the Retina Pro (sans [...]
Making a bootable USB drive of OS X Mountain Lion
As of this morning, OSX 10.8 “Mountain Lion” is out. It’s a whopping $19.99 on the App Store and a couple hour download (depending on your internet connection). If you’ve got multiple machines to install, or just like to be prepared, you can make a bootable USB thumb drive of Mountain Lion. It’s really easy, [...]
Review: MacBook Air 2012
Well it’s 2012 (in case you haven’t been paying attention for the last several months), which means there is a new MacBook Air to review. The new version has been out for about a month now and I just got my hands on a couple to play with. This year’s review of the MacBook Air [...]
WWDC 2012 Keynote Wrapup
As a professional IT person, I make a point of watching the livestream for events like WWDC Keynotes. Within 24 hours someone is asking me if they can have the new X, what I think about the new Y, or some questions about the exact details of Z. Plus I prefer to get my information [...]
How to successfully launch a mobile app – for newbies
The other day a family member emailed me and essentially asked me “How do you make a mobile app?”. I could have written back “Write code, publish it”, but that would have been the smart ass remark. It’s not that I don’t love to be a smart ass, but I presumed they wanted a real [...]
(The New) iPad 3 Review – Solid unit, uninspiring upgrade
So the “The new iPad” or the “iPad 3″ (depending on your preference, mine is for the latter) has been out for a couple weeks now. As is my custom, I got my hands on one (16 GB 4G Verizon) and took it for a test drive. Since the iPad 3 really has only a [...]
iPad 3 is hot? Try the original 3G/4G chips
I’m a little confused about all the current fuss over the iPad 3 (sorry… “The New iPad”) and its love of warm temperatures. An electronic device is warm – this is astonishing? Really, It’s all Consumer Reports fault for being… antiquated.
