It’s often overlooked, but one of the most essential tools that a tech can have is their chair. Geeks spend long hours in front of a computer, and the chair is make or break for your workstation, your ergonomics, and in the end, how much you can get done in a day.
Volume Number: 25
Issue Number: 11
Column Tag: Real World Review
by the MacTech Editorial Staff
Read MoreAn iPad by any other name would still be an iPad. And another name would probably have been a better choice for several reasons.
One: as many folks have pointed out, it sounds like a feminine hygiene product.
Two: it’s too close to iPod. You can bet that there’ll be articles in which an understandable typo will say “iPod” when it means “iPad.” And vice versa.
Three: there are other claims to the name: STMicroelectronics, ST, a French-Italian company, uses the IPAD name in chips sold to mobile phone makers. IPAD stands for “Integrated Passive and Active Devices.
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Here are the latest iPhone/iPod touch/iPod apps announced. You can find ’em at the Apple App Store (http://www.itunes.com/appstore/).
Wonder Bread has served up its first iPhone/iPod touch app. The Sandwich Wonder-izer app is free and lets you create sandwich combinations from a list of more than 120 ingredients –from cheddar cheese to cucumbers and sprouts to salami — while calculating the sandwich’s nutrition values in real time with each added ingredient.
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comScore (http://www.comscore.com), which measures the digital world, released data from the comScore MobiLens service, reporting key trends in the U.S. mobile phone industry over the three month period between September and December 2009.
Read MoreZiggySoft has released a new version (2.3.7) of iWeb Valet (http://www.ziggy-soft.com/News.html(, a tool to enhance and upload iWeb pages. The upgrade: adds basic support for international fonts; removes FTP real-time logging to increase listing speed; corrects an iDisk transfer bug; and enhances the Text menu.
Tension Software has updated Password Repository (http://www.pomola.com/products_passwordrepository/passwordrepository.html), a Mac OS X password storage utility, to version 2.11.9. It’s a maintenance release that fixes some bugs.
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