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Our company seems equally balanced between engineers and product marketing people. Usually, that’s not a good thing. However, many of the product marketing managers here are former engineers so I’m not scared by the balance. It’s the engineers who helped … Continue »
Capturing a Mac’s screen as a video couldn’t be much easier or less expensive. Apple puts the screen capture-to-video functionality in QuickTime Player. Open it up, select New Screen Recording, and you’re good to go. Need more features? Ah, that’s … Continue »
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. If so, why is it so difficult to drop captions onto photos before uploading to Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, et al? As it turns out, all you need is 99-cents and the … Continue »
It’s never been more apparent that building the whole widget– software and hardware– works to Apple’s advantage. Take OS X Mavericks and the new line of MacBook Air models as an example. What would you expect in a new MacBook … Continue »
The capabilities that are built in to Mac graphic design tools these days are nothing short of a revolutionary change. Photoshop sells a limited version for less than $100. The nearly as capable Pixelmator is less than $15. If your … Continue »
The proliferation of paint and photo editing apps for Mac and iPhone leads me to a conclusion. Either there are plenty of customers and the market is growing, or, it just doesn’t take much to create digital painting and drawing … Continue »
Have you read about the $400 Lytro camera? It takes photos where everything is in focus. Adding focus or depth of field is done in software. You can kinda sorta do the same thing with the camera in your iPhone. … Continue »
About 20 or so years ago, years before the public internet took over the world, I worked for a company which had internal email. It was intra company only, but everyone loved it as a new way to communicate and … Continue »
Chalk it up to genes, but I’m not a musician that people would pay money to see and hear. Actually, my piano is so bad that I’d probably have more financial success where people would pay me not to play. … Continue »
Who doesn’t like Instagram? iPhone or Android, it’s the most popular way to share photos online. Why isn’t there an Instagram app for the Mac? After all, iPhoto on the Mac is where we store all of our photos– iPhone, … Continue »
There once was a time when I thought that privacy would be the important issue of the 21st century. I may yet be proven correct, but so far it doesn’t look as though too many of the great unwashed masses … Continue »
Somewhere down the road, perhaps in OS X Lynx or OS X Garfield, Apple will make the Menubar an official utility holder. For now, those of us who love the utility of the Menubar will suffer when the area gets … Continue »
Judging by the sheer number of todo list and task managers for Mac and iPhone a visitor from outer space wouldn’t know if earthlings were totally incompetent or fully competent creatures. Of course, judging by all the weight loss and … Continue »
One of the inherent benefits of the massive number of apps in the iPhone App Store is that there’s usually something for everyone, an app for every need. Need sushi? Yelp. Need pizza? Yelp? Nah, why bother with a general … Continue »
Managing money is not fun. That is, unless you have lots of money to manage; so much money to manage that you need to hire someone to keep track of it. That might be fun. Otherwise, the rest of us … Continue »
Yes, I know that faxes are still used in business, but when was the last time you received or needed to send a fax? In the era of the internet’s killer app– email– the fax industry just isn’t what it … Continue »
Have you ever downloaded and tried out an app on your iPhone that you later regretted buying? Sure. That’s the nature of mobile apps today. Buy, then try. How about this? Have you ever downloaded and tried out an app … Continue »
Photo editors for Mac or iPhone are probably quite a dime a dozen, but I’ll bet you can find a dozen and not spend a dime. If iPhoto doesn’t haven enough juice for you, but you’ve got plenty of month … Continue »
