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Archives for December 2015

Sync2Mac8Ways

Backup or sync eight ways with ChronoSync. Bootable, mirrored, remote, scheduled, local, iOS storage, and automatic backups.

Record And Edit Audio On A Mac For Free

Thursday, December 24, 2015
True confession. I'm old. And audio is in my blood. I cut my audio editing teeth the old fashioned way. With a razor, audio tape, an aluminum editing bar, and Scotch tape. That's right. Back in the day, editing audio required actually cutting audio tape and splicing it back together again.Here in... Read More »
Wednesday, December 23, 2015

Apple At A Crossroads (again)

Another example of what serves as business analysis these days from Andy Serwer:Conventional wisdom says Apple is now at a crossroads. The company is so reliant on the iPhone—on track to sell some 231 million units this year, generating roughly 63% of its revenue and likely even more of its profit—that... Read More »

Better Than Average

Hillary Clinton in Iowa:This school district, and these schools throughout Iowa, are doing a better than average job. Now, I wouldn’t keep any school open that wasn’t doing a better than average job.Without getting into the difference between 'mean' and 'average' there's a gotcha in that... Read More »

4 More Years Of Cheap Oil

Somehow it seems as if low oil prices are a prelude to something worse than high prices, but the experts think the drop will continue for a few more years. Nina Lamparski:The OPEC oil cartel sees only a gradual improvement in the global crude market, with prices recovering to above $70 per barrel... Read More »
Monday, December 21, 2015

‘Like A Human Would’

How would you give directions from here to there? Linda Poon with details on an app that gives directions like a human would:Now, there’s an app that gives you directions just as a real human being would. Called Walc, the app uses a large database to point out nearby landmarks— like a restaurant,... Read More »
Friday, December 18, 2015

Top Tech 2015

Dan Tynan with Yahoo's online survey of the Top Tech Products of the Year: Over the last month, we surveyed nearly a thousand regular Yahoo Tech readers, asking them to pick their favorite tech products in seven categories, from best smartphone to top technology and top tech person of the year.In... Read More »

Put OS X’s Missing Window Manager On Your Mac

Thursday, December 17, 2015
Macs have graced my desktop or lap since the early, early days of Apple's once flagship product line. The real early days. As in early 1984. As far as the Mac has advanced since those pre-historic years, Apple isn't quick to build-in some of the items on my Top 10 Apple Please Fix This List.High... Read More »
Wednesday, December 16, 2015

10 Dying Jobs

Lots of clicks and lots of ads, but an interesting list from Kiplinger. We analyzed 784 popular occupations, looking at which jobs have been adding to their ranks over the past decade and which are projected to continue the trend into the next decade. We also looked at recent hiring demand for each... Read More »

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If Superman Used A Mac

Give your Mac's Finder new super powers, manage files and folders faster, control it all with Path Finder. Get full keyboard navigation in a Finder-like app with dual pane view, folder sync, and a long list of tools.

Beware: ‘Peak iPhone’ Is Coming

Daniel Eran Dilger:Katy Huberty of Morgan Stanley cited channel checks and a customer intent survey as the basis for predicting the potential for iPhone sales to fall by as much as 2.9 percent over the next year, reaching a total for 2016 as low as 224 million in a "worst case scenario."In other... Read More »

Apple, Microsoft, Google And The Golden Age Of Annoyances

Tuesday, December 15, 2015
Browsing the inter webs in 2015 is an exercise in futility; a now tried and true method of inflicting oneself with a constant barrage of in your face annoyances, one after the other, sometimes in plural.Our online activities are under a constant barrage of animated ads, pop up auto-play videos, and... Read More »
Thursday, December 10, 2015

On Getting Marshmallow

Android's latest version is called Marshmallow. Kyle Wiggers:Android 6.0 Marshmallow is finally upon us, which means manufacturers are in a rush to determine which of their phones will be bestowed with Google’s latest version of its mobile operating system … and which will be shunned. There are... Read More »

About Time

Apple added support for SD cards to the iPhone. Michael Zhang:After connecting the adapter to your iPhone and connecting your camera to the adapter using a USB cable, your iPhone will open up its Photos app and allow you to choose with photos (JPEG or RAW) and videos you’d like to import.It's... Read More »

R.I.P. iPhone: 2007 - 2021

Great perspective from Barbara Marie Brannan at Mac360 on what people think will replace their iPhones.The real issue here is whether a survey of people who use technology today should be the arbiters and prognosticators of the technology we’ll use in the future. For example, recent research found... Read More »

The Better Way To Count Words On A Mac

Tuesday, December 8, 2015
Me and the Mac go back more years than most Mac users. My first Mac came in the spring of 1984, and with a printer and extra floppy disk drive, was priced well over $3,000. For a Mac with 128k of RAM and a built-in floppy disk. And a dot matrix printer. All that experience also generates a somewhat jaded... Read More »