Fruitful news for small business Apple users. By Ron SeyboldIt’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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
I managed to schedule a One-to-One training session at the local Apple Store today. The first available date was, sure, the Monday of the week following Christmas, December 29. What a coincidence, a date that follows the ultimate purchase and return week. Anyway, for my meeting I’ll try to make some sense of what Apple [...]
The greatest value in the Apple store is no more, at least not until 2009. One-to-One personal training, crazy cheap at $99 for up to 52 weekly sessions of 50 minutes, has been suspended until after the holidays. Apple sent a message advising everybody their one-year subscription to the service has been extended by one [...]