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iPad vs. the World of Tablets
Tis the season... for tablets, that is. It seems that all the big tech names are coming out with one. So, how are you to choose? It all depends on your particular needs.
The tablets we looked at include the iPads, the new iPad Mini, the Kindle Fires, and the Google Nexus 7.
The sleekest, best performing powerhouses? The iPads. They are known for their performance and features and they will integrate beautifully with other Apple products. Apple also has the best selection of good quality apps, by far.
If you shop around at this time of year you can get a 16 GB iPad 2 for around $400. If you’re willing to buy a refurbished model, it could be a little less. You can find the two newest versions of the iPad for as low as $499. These third and fourth generation iPads both have top of the line features including the eye pleasing retina display.
The newest player in the Apple field, the iPad Mini is selling for $329. It’s obviously smaller, and the performance and features are similar to those of the iPad 2, including a non-retina display. Read More...
The tablets we looked at include the iPads, the new iPad Mini, the Kindle Fires, and the Google Nexus 7.
The sleekest, best performing powerhouses? The iPads. They are known for their performance and features and they will integrate beautifully with other Apple products. Apple also has the best selection of good quality apps, by far.
If you shop around at this time of year you can get a 16 GB iPad 2 for around $400. If you’re willing to buy a refurbished model, it could be a little less. You can find the two newest versions of the iPad for as low as $499. These third and fourth generation iPads both have top of the line features including the eye pleasing retina display.
The newest player in the Apple field, the iPad Mini is selling for $329. It’s obviously smaller, and the performance and features are similar to those of the iPad 2, including a non-retina display. Read More...
What You Want, When You Want It: Apple TV
Apple TV is one of the simplest and most useful products that Apple offers. Yet, it’s one of the least understood. What is Apple TV? It’s a useful little converter box that lets you stream movies, television shows and content from your computer or iPad right to your existing HD television screen. It’s also much more affordable than you might think, selling for $99.
The third generation of Apple TV is a small black box that measures a little under four inches on each side. It can handle 1080p video and has an additional wireless antenna for improved WiFi reception.
Apple TV can stream much more than you might think. It’s set up to seamlessly stream HD movies and TV shows from iTunes, the entire Netflix streaming catalog, Hulu Plus shows, live professional sports games and more. Read More...
The third generation of Apple TV is a small black box that measures a little under four inches on each side. It can handle 1080p video and has an additional wireless antenna for improved WiFi reception.
Apple TV can stream much more than you might think. It’s set up to seamlessly stream HD movies and TV shows from iTunes, the entire Netflix streaming catalog, Hulu Plus shows, live professional sports games and more. Read More...
Making Life Easier w/ Reminders in OS X Mt. Lion
A basic review over the features and capabilities of Reminders. Reminders is an easy to use yet powerful tool for accomplishing tasks, and it comes with MacOSX Mountain Lion.
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Resolving Dropped WiFi Connections on Mac OS X
Having problems with you WiFi connection? Check out this video for some settings you can change on your Mac to help improve your wireless connection.
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New & Improved CRM Software for Business - Daylite 4
MarketCircle has unveiled a new version of Daylite, the CRM (Client Record Management) solution that small and medium sized businesses rely on to manage their customer information. Daylite has always been a very good product. The improvements to the new version, Daylite 4, are significant and in our opinion move this piece of CRM software into a “must own” category for companies that need to manage customers and sales processes. Read More...
Save Time with Passbook
Passbook is one of the most useful features in the new iOS 6 operating system for the iPhone.
What is Passbook? It's a handy feature that lets you store and quickly access electronic versions of tickets, boarding passes, merchant cards and more.
How does it work? First, you need to download apps for those merchants that you plan to put into Passbook. When you open Passbook for the first time, a button will appear that will take you to the Passbook section of the Apple App Store. You’ll see all of the supported Passbook apps, like Fandango, American Airlines, and Walgreens to name a few. Read More...
What is Passbook? It's a handy feature that lets you store and quickly access electronic versions of tickets, boarding passes, merchant cards and more.
How does it work? First, you need to download apps for those merchants that you plan to put into Passbook. When you open Passbook for the first time, a button will appear that will take you to the Passbook section of the Apple App Store. You’ll see all of the supported Passbook apps, like Fandango, American Airlines, and Walgreens to name a few. Read More...
The New Slim iMac
We are happy to welcome the newest addition to the Apple family. The new iMac has arrived and it comes with some impressive new features.
What you’ll first notice about this sleek new model is its size. It’s almost a full inch slimmer and up to eight pounds lighter than any other iMac. Apple also re-engineered the display. The result is up to 75% less glare, a sharper screen image, and more vibrant colors.
It may be slim, but it’s also a powerhouse. It comes with the latest OS X Mountain Lion operating system and impressive performance technology. It’s extremely fast thanks to Core i5 or i7 processors and the latest Nvidia graphics processing. It also comes with up to 3TB of storage and a Fusion Drive option that adds 128GB of flash storage to the hard drive. The iMac dynamically manages the memory, shifting less used programs to the hard drive, reserving the faster flash memory for the most often used apps. The result? Faster day-to-day performance. Read More...
What you’ll first notice about this sleek new model is its size. It’s almost a full inch slimmer and up to eight pounds lighter than any other iMac. Apple also re-engineered the display. The result is up to 75% less glare, a sharper screen image, and more vibrant colors.
It may be slim, but it’s also a powerhouse. It comes with the latest OS X Mountain Lion operating system and impressive performance technology. It’s extremely fast thanks to Core i5 or i7 processors and the latest Nvidia graphics processing. It also comes with up to 3TB of storage and a Fusion Drive option that adds 128GB of flash storage to the hard drive. The iMac dynamically manages the memory, shifting less used programs to the hard drive, reserving the faster flash memory for the most often used apps. The result? Faster day-to-day performance. Read More...
Using Mountain Lion's Mail VIP Folders (Tutorial with Video)
Have a VIP in your life? With Apple’s newest operating system, Mountain Lion, you can automatically keep copies of that person’s messages in a SmartFolder in your Mail program. This will eliminate the need to search multiple folders for specific messages you may need in the future. It also eliminates the need to manually drag messages into folders. Read More...
Unlocking the Power of Preview (Tutorial with Video)
Preview has always been a useful program for reading PDFs, viewing graphics, and running slide shows. Now Apple has taken this program a huge step forward giving you the power to enhance, edit, and modify images and PDFs, all without a separate image editor or PDF tool.
The new Preview is part of the Mountain Lion OS X 10.8 operating system. The following are some of the most exciting new features of Preview. Read More...
The new Preview is part of the Mountain Lion OS X 10.8 operating system. The following are some of the most exciting new features of Preview. Read More...
Keeping your Mac Safe with Mountain Lion's Gatekeeper
Accidentally downloading malicious software can cause countless problems on your Mac. That’s why the Mountain Lion operating system includes a new Gatekeeper feature. It helps protect you from inadvertently downloading software that may look safe, but will actually damage or steal your data. Read More...
Mountain Lion Notification Center (Tutorial with Video)
One of the new features of the Mountain Lion operating system is the Notification Center. What are notifications? They are quick notes that appear on your screen alerting you to activity in your other apps. They are a lot like the notifications that you may have seen on an iPad or iPhone.
Depending on your preferences, notifications will scroll across your screen like a banner or pop up as an alert.
You can view all of your notifications, including ones you may have missed, by visiting the Notification Center. A two-finger swipe from right to left will get you to the Notification Center. You can also get to it by clicking the menubar icon in the upper right of the menubar.
Notifications are fully customizable and easily managed. That means you can choose which notifications appear, how often, how they look and how they sound.
To manage each of your notifications go to the Apple icon and choose Notification Center and System Preferences, or you could just click on the gear symbol at the bottom of the Notification Center.
You can specify whether notifications appear as Banners or Alerts. Banners appear and disappear on their own. Alerts stay on your screen until you take an action. Read More...
Depending on your preferences, notifications will scroll across your screen like a banner or pop up as an alert.
You can view all of your notifications, including ones you may have missed, by visiting the Notification Center. A two-finger swipe from right to left will get you to the Notification Center. You can also get to it by clicking the menubar icon in the upper right of the menubar.
Notifications are fully customizable and easily managed. That means you can choose which notifications appear, how often, how they look and how they sound.
To manage each of your notifications go to the Apple icon and choose Notification Center and System Preferences, or you could just click on the gear symbol at the bottom of the Notification Center.
You can specify whether notifications appear as Banners or Alerts. Banners appear and disappear on their own. Alerts stay on your screen until you take an action. Read More...
The Newest iPad and iPhone Features in iOS 6
Apple’s new iOS 6 operating system, available this fall, will bring some significant improvements to the iPhone and iPad.
Some of the most notable changes are to Siri. She will be able to open apps, pull up sports scores and stats, and even make restaurant reservations through Open Table. Siri will also be able to integrate into the hands-free systems of many vehicles.
A new application called Passbook can organize movie and sporting event tickets, store membership cards, retail coupons and airplane boarding passes. You can even use Passbook to check in for a flight, buy movie passes and redeem coupons.
The new iOS will also have its own mapping app with real-time traffic updates and turn-by-turn navigation spoken by Siri. Maps are vector based which means graphics and text are incredibly detailed. You can tilt and rotate to view an area and the Maps app will keep the names of streets and places where they belong. Read More...
Some of the most notable changes are to Siri. She will be able to open apps, pull up sports scores and stats, and even make restaurant reservations through Open Table. Siri will also be able to integrate into the hands-free systems of many vehicles.
A new application called Passbook can organize movie and sporting event tickets, store membership cards, retail coupons and airplane boarding passes. You can even use Passbook to check in for a flight, buy movie passes and redeem coupons.
The new iOS will also have its own mapping app with real-time traffic updates and turn-by-turn navigation spoken by Siri. Maps are vector based which means graphics and text are incredibly detailed. You can tilt and rotate to view an area and the Maps app will keep the names of streets and places where they belong. Read More...
AirDrop Filesharing - Tutorial Video
AirDrop is an easy way to securely share files with other nearby Mac users. It’s Wi-Fi based, so there’s no need to change your network settings. You simply drag and drop your files to other AirDrop users. Read More...
iOS 5 Quick and Convenient Camera Access - Helpful Camera Tips
The new iOS 5 operating system brings more than 200 new features to the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch.
Some of the most useful new features are part of the Camera app. With iOS 5, your camera is now literally one touch away. That’s because you can open the Camera app right from the lock screen. So you won’t lose precious time unlocking your device with a passcode and then finding and tapping the Camera app.
The camera also has grid lines, pinch-to-zoom gestures, and single-tap focus and exposure locks so you can compose your picture right from your device. Then with a click of the volume-up button you can quickly snap a photo.
You can also edit photos right on your iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch. With crop, rotate, enhance, and red-eye options built right into the Photos app, you can work on your photos right on your device. You can also organize your photos into albums, and if you have Photo Stream enabled in iCloud your new new photos are pushed right onto all your iOS devices.
The main advantage of the iOS 5 operating system is that all of the photo features you need are conveniently available in one place and can be accessed right on your iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch from the lock screen. Read More...
Some of the most useful new features are part of the Camera app. With iOS 5, your camera is now literally one touch away. That’s because you can open the Camera app right from the lock screen. So you won’t lose precious time unlocking your device with a passcode and then finding and tapping the Camera app.
The camera also has grid lines, pinch-to-zoom gestures, and single-tap focus and exposure locks so you can compose your picture right from your device. Then with a click of the volume-up button you can quickly snap a photo.
You can also edit photos right on your iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch. With crop, rotate, enhance, and red-eye options built right into the Photos app, you can work on your photos right on your device. You can also organize your photos into albums, and if you have Photo Stream enabled in iCloud your new new photos are pushed right onto all your iOS devices.
The main advantage of the iOS 5 operating system is that all of the photo features you need are conveniently available in one place and can be accessed right on your iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch from the lock screen. Read More...
Working with Full Screen Apps in Mac OS Lion
The OS X Lion operating system gives you an option to work in full-screen with most applications. This is useful when you need to focus on one task without distraction.
To get to full-screen mode, click on the double-ended arrow in the upper right corner of your screen. That app will then fill your entire screen so that's all that you will see. Read More...
To get to full-screen mode, click on the double-ended arrow in the upper right corner of your screen. That app will then fill your entire screen so that's all that you will see. Read More...