Throughout March, the organizers of Macworld Expo 2010 are making the conference session presentations available to attendees. These are usually PowerPoint slide decks, and they are offered without audio commentary. But they are online this month at the Expo’s Web site, a real value for any attendee who couldn’t find enough time to sit in [...]

One of the busiest booths at last week’s Macworld 2010 Expo was one staffed by a 500-year-old company, showing a sparkling-new product. Papershow makes a presentation interactive over the Web or inside a meeting room. It relies on the magic of Papershow paper, a frame of microscopic points, almost invisible to the naked eye, which [...]

A trade show is an odd thing, an entity that exists only in a brief span of time like a polliwog, a text message or an NBC talk show host’s gig. Afterward, it’s remembered best by those who were actually attending the conference, like last week’s Macworld Expo. But the Web is full of ace [...]

The 25 percent-off discount for Macworld Conference packages has been extended through midnight Pacific time Tuesday (Jan 5). The two-day extension includes the offer of a $10 Expo Pass, which can educate about business solutions as much as many training sessions.
But even one day of those sessions is only $79 through tomorrow night. Some reports [...]

The Take Control Of e-book guides are on sale through the end of the year, Dec. 31, at the company’s Web site. These are well-written, easily-search guides to all level of Mac use, including some aspects of Apple computing that a business operator can benefit from.
We’ve reviewed the guide for securing WiFi, for example, and [...]

It’s easy to forget how many strides Apple made since the Year 2000 to become a force in computing. This article from TechRadar.com sums up the magic, from the iPod to embracing Unix as the new Mac OS X to those stores jammed with customers for advice, repair and business counseling.
Here in Austin on Dec. [...]

The organizers of the biggest Apple show of the year are discounting registrations by 25 percent through midnight, Nov. 29. Use code CREATE25 as you check out of the registration site.
This year the conference includes a first ever Mac Work track in the User’s Conference. The eight sessions in the track are designed to ease [...]

In these days before Palm’s Pre smartphone finally arrives, fans of that brand-new device are airing gripes about the iPhone. The iPhone isn’t perfect by a long shot. Especially to those who don’t own one and can’t become an ATT customer here in the US. But even if you do use Apple’s mobile device to [...]

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 [...]

Macworld Expo organizers have moved the 2010 conference and trade show back one month, into a more sensible February. It’s a welcome change for those of us who’ve been attending to learn, shop and network at the old early-January show dates.
The fate of the Feb. 9-13 conference, which Apple abandoned after this year, is not [...]