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Apple iPhone OS 4.0 event on April 8, 2010

Soon after Apple releases its new iPad, they announce a sneak preview of iPhone OS 4.0. There’s no hint about what we expect to see in this OS upgrade, but I’m hoping that Apple can provide a solution for multitasking. Their biggest concern is battery life, so perhaps they’ll only allow certain types of computational threads or connectivity to run in the background with certain permissions. I’d also like to see a Documents space like we have for photos and music.

Michael Gaines | Apr, 5, 2010 | 0 comments

Kindle for Mac released

After a long wait, Amazon has finally released its Macintosh version of the Kindle application. While this isn’t the same application that will run on the iPad, this does give hope that Amazon will fully support the iPad with an updated app once it’s released on April 3.

Getting back on the web when you lose your browser

Computer failures usually don’t happen often, but when they do, most people don’t know how to fix them. This happened to my mom a few months back; she was doing a Mac OS X update when she had a power failure. The updater was updating her browser at the time, so when the power came back on and she rebooted her system, she didn’t have a browser. Without a browser, there was no way to download it again.

Michael Gaines | Mar, 13, 2010 | 0 comments

First impressions of Lala

Despite all I’ve heard about music streaming services, Lala never hit my radar until it was announced that Apple bought them last year. Since I was curious about their service, I decided to check them out and see what they had that other music services didn’t.

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Michael Gaines | Feb, 21, 2010 | 0 comments

Fixing the default Macintosh network share name

I’m constantly sharing Mac and Windows machines on the same network, but for some reason, Apple decided to make the default Mac share name the ID of your MAC address. MAC is not the same as Macintosh, but stands for “Media Access Control” ID which uniquely IDs all network cards. This helps, but the name doesn’t really help describe which Mac you’re pointing to if you have more than one.

Michael Gaines | Jan, 25, 2010 | 0 comments