By now, you no doubt have read of Macworld/iWorld's hiatus. My immediate feeling is that my family has been taken from me. I also feel like an era may have come to an end. 'Hiatus' ordinarily suggests a return sometime in the future, soon or down-the-road. But as we...
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Freshly Squeezed Reviews: Calibre, Your Personal Library of Congress
When I was a homeowner, I fashioned an office out of one corner of the rec room. On one wall, I placed three floor-to-ceiling bookcases and crammed them with books. Naturally I hadn't read all of them. But I made it through about a good quarter of them. And I'm...
Freshly Squeezed OpEd: Wait A Tick! I'm My Father's Mac!
When I first started using computers, it was a lot like my early forays into dating. I was always in the dark and there was a lot of fumbling about. But then I was introduced to the Mac. The computer for the rest of us. Or, put another way, not your father's computer...
Freshly Squeezed Reviews: iPad Video Cutting Board
Product: ProcutX for iPad Author: Pixel Film Studios Requirements: Final Cut Pro X; OSX 10.7 or 10.8 Price: $0.99 Test Rig: iPad Mini w/ RD, Wi-Fi, 32GB Some years ago, I earned my degree in video production. This should've been enough to land me a...
Freshly Squeezed OpEd: The Day That Wall St. Grew Up
Once upon a time, or perhaps twice, there was a special place built of gold where borrowers and lenders of various sorts and sizes would gather daily to transact all manner of business. This place was known as Wall Street. And rightly so, as an invisible wall had been...
Freshly Squeezed Reviews: High Fidelity, Digitally Speaking
Product: Fidelia Developer: Audiofile Engineering, LLC Cost: US$19.99 Requirements: MAC OS X 10.7+ Test Rig: 2012 MBA 13", OS X 10.9.2, 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD In a previous lifestyle, I was a composer and musician. One of my favorite parts of the creative process...
Freshly Squeezed Reviews: What's Your Desktop's Flavour?
Years ago, BeOS (if memory serves) allowed you to alter the entire theme of your desktop. This could be anything from the colors of buttons, the corner shapes of your windows, to having everything on your desktop have a brushed aluminum appearance on your Menu and...
Freshly Squeezed Reviews: Accessory Troika
Usually I review but one piece of hardware or software. And it’s always something that either has a learning curve of some assembly required. But this time, I thought that I would write about three recent purchases that make my computing day a bit more pleasurable....
Freshly Squeezed Reviews: It's A Clean Machine
Product: Washing Machine Developer: Intego Requirements: Mac OS X 10.6 or higher, Intel Core 2 Duo Processor or higher, 50 MB Free Disk Space Test Rig: 2012 MacBook Air, 8GB RAM, 256 SSD, 2 GHz IntelCore i7, Mavericks 10.9.1 As with all Apple apps, there’s an...
Freshly Squeezed OpEd: Comcastopoly
By now, I’m sure that you have read or heard that Comcast has swallowed TimeWarner Cable. Apple had been in discussions for some time now with TWC.This may have been what Jobs was referring to when he said that he had figured out what to do with AppleTV. Some believe...
Freshly Squeezed Review: Voila – Now You See It, Now You Do
Product: Voila v3.4 Developer: Global Delight Requirements: Mac OS X Lion, 10.5.8 or later Test Rig: 2012 MacBook Air, 8GB RAM, 256 SSD, 2 GHz IntelCore i7, Mavericks 10.9.1 ‘A picture is worth a thousand words.’ A cliché and for good reason. Because it's true. With...
Freshly Squeezed OpEd: Emergency Kit
Due to recent events that would make for a riveting feature film (the part of Frank Petrie will be played by Jack Black), I spent an inordinate amount of 2013 in hospital and rehab. But I learned that I could still carry on socially and professionally with a bit of...
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