THE MAC AT WORK
Posted on March 19th, 2013 by Joy Schwabach
CANDY APPLES
Posted on January 24th, 2013 by Joy Schwabach
A Forrester Research Report estimates that Apple will sell $39 billion dollars worth of iPads and Macs over the next two years. This year alone, they are expected to sell $11 billion dollars worth of iPads and $7 billion dollars worth of Macs. That sounds like a lot, but their market share has been dropping and that may accelerate. Apple’s share of the smart phone market has dropped from 23 percent to around 15 percent over the past year. Samsung’s market share, on the other hand, has tripled over the past two years, from nine to 31percent. Apple is hoping a cheaper iPhone with brightly colored cases can recover lost share.
MACBOOK AIR LIVES UP TO APPLE NAME
Posted on December 11th, 2012 by Joy Schwabach
Among the true believers, everything from Apple — Macbooks, iPhones or iPads– is treated like a sacred object. So when the new Macbook Air came out this summer, our natural skepticism raised its wary head. After a suitable hiding period, we went out and bought one. Okay, it’s great.
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ALL SHE WANTS FOR CHRISTMAS
Posted on November 26th, 2012 by Joy Schwabach
MY MACBOOK
Posted on November 3rd, 2012 by Joy Schwabach
“My MacBook, Mountain Lion Edition, 3rd Edition,” by John Ray, $25 from QuePublishing.com. This book has everything you need to make the switch from Windows to Mac,
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THE LOST INTERVIEW
Posted on July 29th, 2012 by Joy Schwabach
“Steve Jobs, the Lost Interview” is now available at the iTunes app store. This is a rare interview that was briefly shown in theaters last year. Jobs had just left Apple at the time and had big plans for his NeXT computer company. Even as hard-core Windows fans, we were sold by his visionary appeal. (Bob actually got to try the NeXT.) You can watch the interview on your computer, tablet or smartphone. Launch iTunes and click “movies,” then search for the title. It’s a $4 rental.
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THEIR LIFE IN COMICS
Posted on July 8th, 2012 by Joy Schwabach
The Steve Jobs biography by Walter Isaacson is a great read at over 500 pages, but you might prefer the comic book version, which we saw on Amazon for $1.07. Now there’s a Bill Gates comic. You can get the print version at your local comic book store or the Kindle edition on Amazon. The Gates bio goes back to his earliest days writing machine code in zeroes and ones. Coming soon are the comic bios of Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page. You can pre-order the Brin/Page comic book at Amazon for $8.
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GETTING WITH IT
Posted on May 17th, 2012 by Joy Schwabach
Our 89-year-old aunt’s iPad arrived the other day and for several days it stayed in the box. (Imagine, for the sake of contrast, a 3 year-old’s reaction. He’d have it out of there in a minute and would probably have it figured out in 15.)
Still, our aunt is ve
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THE POCKET DOORBELL
Posted on March 9th, 2012 by Joy Schwabach
TOO MUCH MAIL
Posted on March 7th, 2012 by Joy Schwabach
Here’s how we get hung-up: You have an important email message to send. So you go to your email program and are just about to send it, when … you see all these enticing messages waiting for your attention. Twenty minutes later, you think to yourself: “Just what was that message I had to send?”
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