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Program : Google Currents Price: Free Platform: iPhone, iPad, Android URL: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/google-currents/id459182288?mt=8 Website: https://www.google.com/producer/home When Google Currents was announce yesterday, we were initially a bit skeptical that the app would do what it said it would. But then we have seen so many supposed publishers come and go quickly due to the fact that they did not do the job as advertised. As for Google Currents, the app works well and for those who bothered to read the instructions on…
This morning, Google announced the availability of Currents, their Flipboard like application for the iPhone, iPad and Android. The App system itself produces very nice clean type and has a number of popular magazines already in the system, including out Call-A.P.P.L.E. News. You can download the Google Currents version of Call-A.P.P.L.E. News at: http://www.google.com/producer/editions/CAowyI4W/call_apple_news You can download the Google Currents App from the following location: http://www.google.com/producer/currents?referrer=utm_source%3Dlinkshare%26utm_medium%3Dweb%26utm_campaign%3DCAow6LoV
This article is presented for those with Intel Macs (and PCs) who choose to have an alternative operating system available. It is possible to install it as a Dual-Boot system, Virtual Machine, or just run it from the live DVD. Late last month (November) Mint 12 was released to the public (free). Mint is a full multi-media distribution of Linux. There has been a lot of extremely positive press about this version. It’s almost as if someone hired the PR…
Ghostery is an add-on to FireFox (and other web browsers) which stop sites from tracking users as they surf the web. Installing it depends on which web browser and which version is being used. A good place to start is either tools, extensions, or add-ons. Once installed and the browser is restarted, Ghostery will go through three or four configuration screens. The last screen lets the user select which tracking cookies/bugs to block. One of the options is to let…
Happy Canadian Thanksgiving everybody. This review will be just a quick one. I’m not an expert with this sort of thing and have only dabbled with it from time to time… What is it? Handbrake is simply a transcoder. It converts DVD’s to video files and video files from one format to another. Does it work? Yes. It does what it was designed to do quite well and actually is fairly stable in spite of having not been updated in…
A press release this morning from the KansasFest organization announces that John Romero, whose programming legacy is set over 97 titles, will be the keynote speaker at the 2012 Kansasfest. The event which will run July 17 to July 22, 2012 is the annual gathering of Apple ][ enthusiasts, hobbyists, hackers and others. Each year the event draws about 50 people and is always high spirited and full of computing surprises. For more on this event, we include the press…
An announcement from Ken Gagne of the Kansas Fest committee on CSA2 Specifies the 2012 rendition of KFEST. “KansasFest 2012 will be held at Rockhurst University in Kansas City, Missouri, from Tuesday, July 17, through Sunday, July 22. Note that these dates do NOT conflict with Comic-Con… they finally realized the juggernaut they were up against and moved their event! :- D So any geeks interest in both events can have their cake and eat it, too. More details will…
According to the OfficeforMac blog (http://blog.officeformac.com/), SP1 for Office 2011 is to be released within the next week. According to the blog, the biggest change in SP1 will be the ability for Outlook to sync between Outlook 2011 and Apple Sync Services. For more about the update, check out the Microsoft Office for Mac Blog at: http://blog.officeformac.com/
KANSAS CITY, MO — March 30, 2011 — KansasFest, the 22nd annual convention dedicated to the Apple II computer, is now open for registration. Users, programmers, hobbyists, and retrocomputing enthusiasts are invited to Rockhurst University in Kansas City, Missouri, from Tuesday, July 19, 2011, through Sunday, July 24, for six days and five nights of sessions, demos, announcements, contests, and camaraderie. The week kicks off with keynote speaker Bob Bishop, co-founder of Apple’s R&D lab alongside Steve Wozniak and creator of many…
The annual Pwn2Own competition has had it’s first day results come in. The idea behind the competition is to present some “hackers” with a series of web browsers on various machines. These machines are configured by various software manufacturers. The first hacker to generate a remote exploit on a particular machine gets to keep the machine plus $15,000. Although armed with 62 last minute patches, Safari was the first to go down. It took only five seconds. Next to go…
Conan O’Brien has been known for his ability to have the latest and greatest in Apple gadgets and to poke fun at them at the same time. While his iPhone skit was quite funny a while back, his new iPad2 commercial is absolutely brilliant in the manner it parodies the launch. Stating “Apple is getting a bit cocky” in his monologue, he then turns to the following commercial to take the joke home.
Apple introduced its new iPad 2 today at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, California by none other than the master presenter himself, Steve Jobs. He mentioned that he could not let this historic announcement go by without showing up at the show, which is interesting because this presentation was a lot less historic than the iPhone coming to Verizon…. in my opinion anyway. Back to the iPad as it were, never owning an iPad myself…
Once again, the rumor mills have been running up all types of conjecture of what folks think the iPad2 will be. I can tell you what it will not be. It will not contain anything from the MacBook Pro other than 1 or two new technologies. Most of it will be rehashes and improvements of current technology. First off, memory has been a major issue on the machines from the get go. I have friends who have the 16gb model…
The reason why people would want to set up one computer to store files for another computer are varied. For example I backed up my Linux box (PC) to a Mac before the power supply died. In my case the choice of a Mac comes down to two reasons. Ease of set up and stability. A common access method is to use ftp (file transfer protocol – note the lowercase letters). In OS X go to the System Preferences and…
Adam Engst, the creator of Tidbits newsletter will be speaking at the MachinTech Computer users Group on April 12, 2011. According to the posting by Andy Suhaka, the MacinTech Treasurer, “MacinTech Computer Users Group, a small MUG in the southeast Denver metropolitan area (the Denver Tech[nological] Center), will be hosting a visit by Adam Engst on 12 April. The meeting will be held at Plymouth Congregational Church, 6 – 9 p.m. This is located at 3501 S. Ciolorado Blvd., Englewood,…
Apple, Inc. wasted no time in back to back announcements this week. With their MacBook Pro new models barely onto the show rooms, Apple announced their March 2nd event for the unveiling of the iPad2. Many people have speculated on the specs of the iPad2 for some time now and this is the first sign that we have that the iPad is not delayed as many sites were saying but that it will be available soon. The event for…
By A.P.P.L.E. Staff This month, the gang over at MacHeist has had two events. The first was ta short event to give away the software package Squeeze by LateNiteSoft. While this particular package would appeal to those who are lacking in hard drive space, we feel that squeezing data is not necessarily the best idea. However, now the folks at MacHeist have come out with the nanoBundle 2 and have included some really cool packages. The packages included in the…
By A.P.P.L.E. Staff Photos By Jim Gottlieb One again, the even aptly named MacWorld Exposition has come and gone. While the naysayers were saying that the event would die without the main players there, the event did go on. Apple, Inc. of course pulled out over a year ago, prior to the last version of the event. But Alas, the show must go on and go on it did. What you saw this year was that instead of many big…
Every year about this time, everyone begins clamouring over each other to put out the juiciest rumor about what would be presented at MacWorld Expo by Apple. So we decided we would put our hat in the ring as well and give our two cents to the pot. For months now, everyone has been putting OS X on every PC subnotebook known to man including the EE-PC. While this might not seem like a stretch, we think it is quite…
Ken Gagne, owner of Juiced GS Magazine has announced the release of the new and improved Kansas Fest website. The gathering which brings Apple ][ enthusiasts together from all corners of the earth, is held every july in Kansas City, Missouri. With attendance at around 50 members each year, new items related to Apple ][ computing are announced each year, making this one of the must attend conventions for any Vintage computing fan. According to the press release from Ken…
