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iPhone 4 Tips and Tricks

June 30, 2010

Apple emailed me today with a link to a page with a number of tips and tricks you can use on your new iPhone 4. For anyone who is interested in the new iPhone, or who just bought one, this is great stuff. Just for example, did you know that if you are in Safari, [...]

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Safari 5 hidden features

June 23, 2010

Safari 5 has several features not widely known. Here are a couple of my favorites. RSS icon replaced by Reader Before Safari 5 there’s been a RSS icon to the right of the address field, where you could click to subscribe to a site’s feed. The icon is gone, but the functionality can be accessed [...]

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IOS 4.0 Available

June 21, 2010

The new iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch operating system is available, and downloading as I write. I’m excited! I plugged my iPhone in to my Mac, fired up iTunes, and… my software was up to date, supposedly. I clicked the button to update, and lo and behold, I was offered the option of downloading and installing, downloading only, [...]

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Adobe CS5 comments

June 19, 2010

My pal David Trevelyan, a gifted artist and sculptor living in Bali for the last 20 years is a Photoshop and Illustrator genius. He taught me the basics for everything I know about both, about a year after I taught him how to start his new PowerBook 100 up. He and I email info, drawings [...]

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iPhone 4 pre-orders 600,000 in one day.

June 16, 2010

It took about 3 dozen tries… well, maybe 2 dozen, but I finally got a “reservation” to pick my new iPhone 4 32GB (Black) up at the Santa Rosa, CA. Apple Store on June 24. Stay tuned for first impressions. I’ll no doubt be posting that day. Problems with the pre-order process I can’t speak [...]

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Mac OS X 10.6.4 update released

June 16, 2010

Apple released the newest update to Mac OS X 10.6 yesterday. They have more info on this page. Updating instructions from Apple: Updating your system You should back up your system before installation; you can use Time Machine. Do not interrupt the installation process once you have started to update your system. You may experience [...]

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Mac Minis upgraded

June 15, 2010

Apple just announced the new Mac Mini, with new features: An aluminum unibody enclosure Up to twice the graphics performance Industry-leading energy efficiency An HDMI port and SD card slot The HDMI port will make the new Mini a very interesting solution for Home Theater installations. Basic configurations are: 2.4GHz with 2GB RAM, a 320GB [...]

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Security problems in Adobe Flash Player, Reader and Acrobat

June 9, 2010

CERT Alert TA10-159A Adobe Flash, Reader, and Acrobat Vulnerability Update! Security update for Adobe Flash Player and Adobe AIR released. Adobe Flash Player v.10.1 released 06.10.10 to plug the vulnerability listed below. Adobe AIR 2.0.2 released 06.10.10 Excerpt below: Original release date: June 08, 2010 Last updated June 08, 2010 Source: US-CERT Systems Affected Adobe [...]

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No big surprise, the new iPhone 4 launches June 24

June 7, 2010

Macworld.com says it as well as anyone in their article posted today. The iPhone 4 will be available June 24, following the IOS (the new operating system for iPhone/iPad/Touch) rollout June 21. iPhone 3 and 3G owners and iPad users will have some of the benefits of the new IOS, but the iPhone 4 has [...]

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Adobe Security Alert

June 6, 2010

An Adobe security advisory warns of this critical security flaw that is apparently being actively exploited: Security Advisory for Flash Player, Adobe Reader and Acrobat A critical vulnerability exists in Adobe Flash Player 10.0.45.2 and earlier versions for Windows, Macintosh, Linux and Solaris operating systems, and the authplay.dll component that ships with Adobe Reader and [...]

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