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iPhone Controlled Coffee Brewer

January 7, 2012

With the topic of multitasking and trying to save time in the daily busy schedules everyone has, it gives coffee drinkers a comforting note that coffee can be brewed via the iPhone. This, ladies and gentlemen, is not your grandmothers standard coffee maker. The folks of Scanomat have come up with a brilliant coffee idea: [...]

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How To Update Your Twitter & Facebook Status With Siri

January 6, 2012

Having a jog in the morning and want to respond to a text, travelling to a distance place and want to know the weather condition or trying to locate your favorite restaurant and you do not know the directions, Siri is there for your rescue. Even when you’re driving or you need a break from [...]

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Is the iPhone under threat from Samsung?

November 3, 2011

While most of us are always glad to see a new iPhone come along, there’s no doubt that recent news from the smartphone world has seen a fair degree of a attention focusing on the Galaxy Nexus from Samsung. This is the handset that comes running the so-called Ice Cream Sandwich, which is the Google operating system based around [...]

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Apple releases three new iPhone 4S ads

November 1, 2011

Apple has released three new iPhone 4S ads, highlighting the probably three most important features of iPhone 4S and iOS5: Camera, iCloud and Siri. You can watch them all below: Camera iCloud Siri

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Is the iPhone 4S Future Proofed for Another 12 Months?

October 31, 2011

The iPhone 4 was a device that stayed at the very top of the pile in terms of the best phones on offer for well over a year. In fact, between the launch of the iPhone 4 and the recent launch of the iPhone 4S there has only really been one mobile phone deal that [...]

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MobileMe Gallery & iDisk alternative when MobileMe shuts down

October 28, 2011

With the launch of free iCloud on October 12th, it also meant the end of paid MobileMe. MobileMe was Apple’s paid version for having a @me.com e-mail address, folder online (iDisk), a gallery online, some synchronization between Mac apps etc. It came at a fee of around €79 a year (if I remember correctly). For some [...]

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(Fixed) Mac OS X Lion: /etc/hosts stopped working in 10.7.2, being ignored

October 25, 2011

Besides running this blog, I’m also a freelance web-developer, so I sometimes have a need to modify my local “hosts” file on my Mac, in order to get development/local domains to point to my local web server and also to apply DNS changes before they have propagated through the entire Internet. Usually, you’d do something [...]

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Steve Jobs tried to buy Dropbox in 2009

October 19, 2011

According to Forbes, Steve Jobs invited Dropbox founders Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowski on a visit back in 2009, where Steve surprised them with a very generous offer to purchase Dropbox. It is rumored that Steve Jobs was willing to pay a nine digit-digit price. At that time, Dropbox had only existed for two years [...]

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Top 5 Phone Apps for Bloggers

October 14, 2011

We’ve all been there. You’re out and about, completely immersed in some activity when a moment of sheer brilliance strikes and you know you’ve just stumbled on your next great blog post. Ideas are flying through your head and you need to sit down and write them out rightthisverysecond minus one small detail: you are [...]

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Apple Ahead in US Patent Case

October 11, 2011

A US judge has made an initial ruling in favour of Apple in their attempt to take legal action against HTC for patent infringement. The verdict, which came from ITC administrative law judge Carl Charneski, is not final but is a good sign for Apple and their lawsuit that has been pending since mid-2010. If [...]

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Forget the Five?

October 5, 2011

Our hopes were high. Everyone was ready to bust down the doors of Apple and purchase a shiny new iPhone 5. We were chomping at the bit for information from the exclusive “Let’s Talk iPhone” event. We settled for reading about what was happening at the event instead of watching it. Then, after talking about everything Apple but [...]

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Steve Jobs – the king of keynotes? Some highlights from his keynotes…

October 4, 2011

Steve Jobs recently left his position as CEO at Apple and instead became a member of the board. And so, it is doubtful that we will see him back on the stage anytime soon, doing one of this keynotes where he presents the figures, products and his “one more thing”. Here’s a look at some [...]

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How to: LaCie Safe Manager on 64bit Mac Lion (with LaCie Rugged Safe drive)

September 6, 2011

I’m totally in love with my new LaCie Rugged Safe 1TB drive. It’s a rugged external drive, Firewire 800 / USB 2, which is encrypted using your fingerprint. Sounds fancy, right? It kinda is – and it works wonders. The AES 128-bit encryption is plenty for me. I’m not storing secrets on it, but I’m [...]

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Tim Cook – Apple’s CEO replacement for Steve Jobs

August 26, 2011

Yesterday Steve Jobs decided to step down as CEO for Apple, after health issues for quite a while. He does remain a member of the board though, so hopefully his ideas will remain within Apple. His replacement, Tim Cook, has already been running Apple for the past 6 months or something while Steve Jobs was [...]

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Apple’s new “spaceship” HQ in Cupertino

August 18, 2011

The development proposal for Apple’s new HQ, Apple Campus 2, has now been published on Cupertino’s website. The project has not yet been approved by the city of Cupertino, but Apple is expecting to create new workspaces with their new Apple Campus 2, so Cupertino will probably not have any problems in approving the plans. [...]

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How the iPad helped saved a relationship

July 29, 2011

I recently met up with a friend who told me something that I wanted to share with you iPad lovers and haters out there – how the iPad helped save his relationship with his girlfriend… First, a quick introduction as to how I came to know about this. I’m not ashamed to admit that I [...]

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Apple to unveil iOS 5, Mac OS X Lion and iCloud at WWDC

June 1, 2011

Apple just announced in a press release that it will be unveiling iOS 5, Mac OS X Lion and iCloud at the next WWDC to begin on Monday June 6th. Steve Jobs himself will, as usual, take the stage at the opening keynote address to make the announcements. Usually Apple doesn’t release such information before [...]

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iPhone Tracking: “Engineering Mistake”

May 3, 2011

The latest drama at Apple has been over the apparent tracking of user location via a hidden program deep inside the phone. Apparently this ability came as a surprise to Apple programmers who were busy looking for other forms of data collection committed by their iPhones. In looking for these suspected collections they discovered that [...]

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How to Get the Most Out of Your iPhone Battery

May 3, 2011

Apple’s iPhone revolutionized the smartphone market when it debuted in 2007, and since then it’s continued to set the standard for how the devices look, feel, and perform. Although Apple’s lost its market-share dominance because of competition from other phones like the Android, the iPhone remains a great choice for smartphone users interested in power [...]

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Is the NYT iPad App Really Worth the Monthly Fee?

April 24, 2011

It’s no doubt that the iPad is extremely popular. Like a notebook computer, it can access the Internet and run a wide variety of programs and applications. Its touch screen features are perfect for reading PDFs and other documents since the user can easily scroll up and down and zoom in to text in detail [...]

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3 Android competitors for the iPad

April 10, 2011

Apple is dominating the tablet market with iPad 1 and iPad 2 since ever. Actually there was no real tablet market before the release of iPad 1. The sudden success of the iPad “forced” many other companies to get into the process of developing their own tablet and try to challenge Apple. Among the strongest [...]

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The Best AirPrint Compatible Printers

April 3, 2011

Don’t go wild when you hear you can print wirelessly from your iPod, iPad or iPhone without installing any print drivers or even setting up any printer configurations. Yes, there is a Print icon among all the new standard apps on your i-device, but not only do you have to be running iOS 4.2 or [...]

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Best Wireless Routers for Mac Users

March 22, 2011

There are dozens of wireless routers in the retailers’ electronics departments that infamously claim to be “Mac compatible.” If you or one of your friends has ever purchased one of these routers, they either own a PC or know that compatible is used quite loosely. So what router should you buy if you have a [...]

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Why I will not upgrade to new Sandy Bridge MacBook Pro’s. Or, what I’m hoping for in next upgrade

March 8, 2011

Apple updated their MacBook Pro’s last month with super fast Sandy Bridge stuff. They also got the new Thunderbolt I/O technology which is brand new so there’s basically nothing out there you can connect to it yet, but I’m sure it will come soon – I’m just not sure what we need that much speed [...]

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