A Look Inside T-Mobile’s Emergency Response Teams
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It’s a Book! First Copy of My “iPad Pocket Guide”!
My prolific friend David Blatner started a tradition in the office we once shared. Whenever he published a new book (which is still pretty often) and received his first author copy, he’d bring it around to someone else’s desk and say, “It’s a book!” Now that I’ve published dozens of books myself, I still do ...
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My review of the 15-inch MacBook Pro (2010)
I’ve been pretty singularly focused on the iPad since its release, having finished my iPad Pocket Guide (due in stores likely in the next week or so!) and now working on a Take Control ebook about the iPad. But while I was writing the Pocket Guide, Apple sent me a new 15-inch MacBook Pro review ...
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My review of the 15-inch MacBook Pro (2010)
I’ve been pretty singularly focused on the iPad since its release, having finished my iPad Pocket Guide (due in stores likely in the next week or so!) and now working on a Take Control ebook about the iPad. But while I was writing the Pocket Guide, Apple sent me a new 15-inch MacBook Pro review ...
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Increase Your iPad Media Storage for Just $49
[This post also appears at TidBITS.] Here’s a cool iPad tip suggested by one of our awesome TidBITS readers. Commenter “Mikey” asks: Can you use the SD Card Adapter to watch or import h.264 movies? The idea is that if you watch many movies or other video content, you’d want a lot of storage on ...
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I think I’ve figured out the Big Deal about the iPad
One difficult thing about being a tech writer and having an iPad is answering the questions, “Why would I want one?” and “Will it replace my laptop?” Well, I think I’ve finally figured out why the iPad is a Big Deal: it’s a spontaneous computing device. Read more in my Seattle Times column this week.
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Talking about G10/G11 Book on MacVoices
On a recent MacVoices podcast, I joined Chuck Joiner to talk about the making of my (almost ridiculously long-titled) book “Canon PowerShot G10/G11: From Snapshots to Great Shots.” What’s great about this episode is that we were joined by photographers Jeff Lynch and Justin Van Leeuwen, who contributed photos for the book through an experimental ...
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Free Sample Chapter of My iPad Pocket Guide
The iPad was released last weekend, and to celebrate I’ve made an excerpt from my book The iPad Pocket Guide available as a free download from Peachpit.com. (You need to click the “Sample Content” tab toward the bottom of the page to access the download link.) As I mentioned previously, I’ve been working on the ...
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Free Sample Chapter of My iPad Pocket Guide
The iPad was released last weekend, and to celebrate I’ve made an excerpt from my book The iPad Pocket Guide available as a free download from Peachpit.com. (You need to click the “Sample Content” tab toward the bottom of the page to access the download link.) As I mentioned previously, I’ve been working on the ...
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iMovie Crashing with Aperture 3? Now Fixed
Aperture 3, Apple’s pro photo application, has had a bumpy start since its release in February. Unfortunately, one of the early casualties was iMovie ’09, which could crash when building thumbnails of movie files in Aperture’s library. That problem is now fixed with iMovie 8.0.6 and Aperture 3.0.2. They’re available as standalone downloads or via ...
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Love This Photo of Coffee and Tylenol
Marco Arment (developer of Tumblr and Instapaper) has a cold. And a really great photo illustrating how he’s fighting it:
Jeff Carlson | Never Enough Coffee Creations 