LindauerMacs Blog

March 2009

Talking Email Keyboard lets you drive and email!?

March 24, 2009

Not sure this is a good idea, but if you are on handsfree, you can use this new app from G.P.Imports lets you “type while on the road”. Really. That’s a direct quote from the App Store listing for Talking Email Keyboard. It makes sense for people who have difficulty with the iPhone keyboard, or [...]

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Saving images as jpegs, and saving again…

March 24, 2009

OK, most of us know that we should not take a jpeg image and save it, edit it and save again. Want to know why? Here’s a little video called Generation Loss by hadto ib vimeo. He saved a jpeg, and saved again with slightly more compression. 600 times! And made the individual images into [...]

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Get some space back from iTunes

March 24, 2009

Rob Griffiths at Macworld.com published an article today that made my jaw drop. Why didn’t I think of that? Here’s a great way to get some precious megabytes back, if you are short of storage space, from your iTunes installation. Updates that never die iTunes downloads and installs software updates for iPods and iPhones connected [...]

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iPhones/iPods as Translators

March 22, 2009

Police and U.S. Military have been using iPhones and iPods as translators for a while now. We can too! There are several apps available, such as the Collins Pro Spanish-English Translation Dictionary. Check the iTunes App Store for translation apps for the language you need. Some will be easier to use, and some will have [...]

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Safari 4 beta Tweaks

March 2, 2009

MacFixIt has some great info re: Safari 4 beta. Below are links with a brief synopsis of the articles: Reverting Safari’s Tab Behavior The full article can be found here. One of the biggest gripes I’ve heard about the new Safari 4 beta is the new tab behavior. Safari 4 may be faster rendering Javascript, [...]

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Safari 4 Beta – Pros and Cons and More

March 1, 2009

Safari 4 beta – is it worth a try? There’s a lot of buzz about the Safari 4 beta released to the public this past week. Here are a few bits of info gathered around the web, to help you decide if you want to try the beta version, or to give you a chance [...]

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