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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“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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“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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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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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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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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The first time Joy took an iPad on a trip, she was floored by how much she missed a regular keyboard. But most iPad keyboards are bulky: You might as well bring a laptop. An alternative is the new folding keyboard from Logitech.
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