An iPhone problem led me into my library of O’Reilly Missing Manuals, an ever-growing sheaf of pages that’s approaching one full foot of dandy advice and training. A Missing Manual for Apple products is often likely to have the crack advice of David Pogue among its authors, making them a pleasure to read and a [...]

Creating content is still months away from the iPad’s capabilities, but consuming information is ready today. While publishers like Time-Warner want you to purchase single issues of their magazines for the iPad (at about $5 each), Zinio has a free app and a better idea: delivery of a paid full year’s subscription, ready to display [...]

Zinio means to make a big impression by the iPad’s opening weekend. The company has been selling magazines (single-copy and subscriptions) for 10 years online and on computers, admittedly “before the market’s time” according to CEO Jeanniey Mullen. But fast-forward from the time of Windows XP to the Apple touchstone that boots up on a [...]

Most small businesses and creative enterprises know they need a database. But the learning curve may seem steep for anything but Excel, but Filemaker has a solution that leaves that spreadsheet in the dust: Bento. The latest release of this compact and muscular tool links iPhoto libraries to the $49 database. Bento arrived in the [...]

Rumors of his demise got flipped off when Steve Jobs took the stage today at a media event to introduce a new $149 iPod that will challenge the video Flip cameras. The iPod Nano could become a key business tool for creative pros and writers on the road. The device comes with a voice recording [...]

David Pogue is amazing. The New York Times columnist (his Circuits writing is a fun must-read) has another life as an O’Reilly “Missing Manuals” author. His new Missing Manual on Digital Photography illuminates the sometimes-murky world of taking pictures with digital cameras. Even more important, Pogue sharpens the focus on what to do with the [...]