WaterField Design (http://www.sfbags.com)’s Smart Case doesn’t bring anything dramatically new to the MacBook Air market, but offers good-looking protection for the ultra-sleek laptop.
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If you’re considering the US$129.99 iSound Portable Power Max (http://macte.ch/K38or) back-up battery, ask yourself two questions:
Am I regularly running out of juice on my iOS devices?
Do I need to charge more than one such device while I’m on the road?
If you answered yes to one of these questions, you might need an Portable Power Max. If you answered yes to both, you definitely need one.
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Posted by Greg Mills
Back a few years ago, I invested in Dreamweaver and bought a manual the size of the New York City yellow pages required to understand how to do things with it. I built a few web sites with that cumbersome software, but it seemed like a Windows sort of program that had been ported to the Mac as an afterthought. It really didn’t have the drag and drop Mac sort of interface and the learning curve was of galactic proportions. The notion of having to take a 3 credit hour college course to learn a software program is so Microsoftish.
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Posted by Greg Mills
It has been rumored for a while, that there was some sort of collaboration going on between Apple and Nuance, the Speech to Text company. Speech to Text is something that has been the fodder of science fiction and actual cutting edge computer software for a long time. Star Trek and Battlestar Galactica both have demonstrated graphically the science fiction come true concept where someone just speaks and the text flows onto a computer screen. Easy to simulate, hard to accomplish.
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Recently, I began ripping my entire DVD collection to save for viewing on my Mac. I have a BIG DVD collection and that requires lots of storage, which is where Western Digital’s (http://www.wdc.com/en/) newest generation of the My Book Studio comes in.
The external hard drives — great for use with Macs and Apple’s Time Machine — are now available with a 3TB storage capacity. When you’re ripping DVDs for convenience’s sake (and with an eye to the day when Apple doesn’t include any optical drives on a Mac)
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