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How to justify an iPad
Jun 20th
As a normal person with no tech relating business that brings any monetary profit but at the same time loving all that is related to technology I sometimes have the urge to buy all the new and shiny gadgets that the tech world is releasing. The only issue is, beside the fact that I get to play with the new gadgets there is no other way to justify why I buy them because as far as necessity goes, I don’t need them. I think this is the real situation of most people that love gadgets so I will try to see how can I justify an iPad for myself and hopefully help others in their decision as well, or maybe just confuse others as well as myself.
What does the iPad do?
It does all the things that an iPhone or Android phone can do without being a phone, you can surf the net, watch YouTube, read newspapers and books, play games, listen to music and some basic text editing and lets not forget chatting. The only difference is that it has a 9″ screen that of course comes along with bigger keyboard area to type on.
How can i benefit from it?
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New iPhone 4
Jun 7th
Today Steve Jobs announced the new generation of iPhone on the Apple WWDC keynote. We will review in short what are the main characteristics as presented. First of all the design, in this area nothing new since it is the same device as the one presented on Gizmodo back in April, black glass and stainless steel rim using a micro SIM tray. Hardware wise it has an Apple A4 chip inside just like the iPad, and it will come in sizes up to 32GB with 802.11n Wi-Fi wireless networking. Battery life should be 40% longer for talk time, 7 hours of 3G talk, 6 hours of 3G browsing, 10 hours of Wi-Fi browsing, 10 hours of video, 40 hours of music and 300 hours of standby.
What is amazing is the new display with 960×640 pixels and the Retina Display increasing the pixel density (retina display has 326 pixels per inch) , contrast ratio 800 to 1 on a 3.5 inch display. It also has a new camera system with 5 megapixel at 5x digital zoom and LED flash adding 720p HD video recording at 30 frames per second. For this feature they created the iMovie application that will be More >
How to open .msg files on Mac
Jan 10th
This week-end I was asked by a friend to “make” her Mac see the emails saved from Outlook, Windows based PC. For .pst based files it would have been a fairly easy job because there is the application called Little Machines. But this was not the file format in this case because the emails weren’t imported properly so I had to find something that could open .msg type file formats on the Mac and keep the attachments aswell.
This was not such an easy job and that is why I’m putting this little, but useful, application up here with some screen shots and on how to use it. The application is called MailReader and right now is a beta, meaning it has limited functionality but useful non the less. What you can do with it? You can open the .msg files and the attachments you have in it, you can Print it or you can Save it in two different file formats .rtf and .eml (Outlook Express).
Compatibility is for Leopard and Snow Leopard (tested by me on both systems), not compatible with Microsoft but as it’s written on the application site, it is not necessary. Bellow you can see More >
How to change the look of your Dock
Dec 28th
For this simple task we like to use a free application called Leoparddocks ( http://www.leoparddocks.com/index.php ) because it is very easy to use, and have a lot of cool docks to choose from. The process is simple, you download and install the application, once it’s installed you can choose from the hundreds of docks available on the site to download. When you have a few docks you would like to try out just open the application and the Choose Folder option should be selected where you have the Browse button, select the folder with the dock you would like to use and then just hit Change my Dock!
You also have the option to go back to your original Dock if you don’t like the new look.
How to create a rington for iPhone with iTunes
Dec 5th
You choose the song that you would like to use as a rington and right click on it, then choose “Create AAC version”
After iTunes finishes converting the file, you will have it next to the original. Now right click on the AAC version you just created and choose “Get Info” (if your not usre what version you choose, you can check in the summary). From the Get Info window go to “Options” , here you will see “Start Time” and “Stop Time”, set these to your liking but remember that the iPhone can only use 40 second ringtones. After you set the start time and the stop time just click oke.
What you need to do now is to click again on the AAC version where you just set the start time and the stop time of your ring tone and create an AAC version of this one aswell. You will see that this file will have the playing time you set previously.
After this, take the 30second version of the song and copy it to your desktop by simply drag and drop. From the desktop right clik on it and choose Get Info. The extension of the song is .m4a. Just More >
New iPhone Game
Dec 3rd
It seams that PlayMesh has moved iFarm to the iPhone as well, but I must say, they didn’t do it in a very graceful way. iFarm is the game that everybody loves to play on Facebook, including me, but the Free version on the iPhone is just a cheap copy so far. Why? Because it’s very slow, the music is boring and again, very very slow to react on the finger. The iPhone is capable of much more and it was proven by app developers so this is disappointing from PlayMesh.The only good thing is that it has a free version, of course there is paid version as well, and you can play online with it, all peachy but the point of the matter is, it doesn’t worth the money as long as you can play on Facebook for free. But that’s just my opinion.
I hope they will make it better, but I’m not willing to pay, just to see if the paid version actually reacts to the touch.
