Posts Tagged ‘iphone’

Revisiting RSS

Friday, January 20th, 2012

Several years ago, when Safari got built-in RSS, I was thrilled. Finally RSS became useful to me and I’ve been using it — and Safari — ever since. Recently, though, that has changed.

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More adventures in plumbing

Tuesday, January 17th, 2012

It’s no great secret that I’m an idiot. I prove it on a regular basis, including yesterday, when in an effort to save $250, I ended up spending close to $400.

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Siri, Kinect and other input methods

Monday, January 16th, 2012

Consumer electronics companies seem hellbent on replacing the remote control, the mouse and the keyboard. Touch screens, speech, motion detection and other methods of inferring a user’s desires are all the rage. Too bad most of them make life harder.

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Four-Finger iPad Tip

Wednesday, January 11th, 2012

As the regular reader of this site (hi mom!) knows, I spent Tuesday relying on only my iPad. One of the tricks I employed to quickly switch from app to app is the four-finger swipe.

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Back to the Mac

Tuesday, January 10th, 2012

Yesterday I wrote a brief post about using my iPad for a day instead of my Mac laptop, as I left the latter at home by accident. Today it was back to my Mac — thankfully.

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