iPhone and iPad from a Sharp Canadian Perspective
Jason Snell on his six colors blog features the Utility watch face as one of his favourites. I think I will use this face a lot too. My preferences are to have the alarm in the top left corner, timer in the top right corner, analog time in the middle, and full date along the […]
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Along with Stephen Hackett, MacStories and six colors I too have reviewed the Apple Watch faces and think the Modular face as the closest to what I want but with the same desire that the option be available for local time to be in the middle complication so it is more prominent and larger. It
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My choice of Apple Watch. Apple Watch Sport 42mm Case 7000 Series Space Gray Aluminum Ion-X Glass Retina Display Composite Back Sport Band Black Fluoroelastomer Space Gray Stainless Steel Pin Like most revolutionary products the Apple watch is misunderstood. Apple watch Review 2015-05 I think it will work best in using it for a few things
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MacSparky, of MacPower Users fame, has a cool trick for being more productive when calling people who have an extension for their telephone number. Instead of entering the phone number in contacts as 866-6790×1567 use the special character (;) for prompting the extension 866-6790;1567 so when you call you will be prompted to add those
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Upgrading and Obsolescence The mobile computer (aka smartphone) is a rapidly growing market and is one of the most competitive in the computing domain. More people have smartphones than any other type of computer and for many of them the smartphone is their only computer. Suppliers of smartphones and mobile computer software are driven by
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Review: uNu DX Protective Battery Case for iPhone 5: We did run a battery test with DX to ensure there were no differences in battery performance between the two cases. In our testing of Meridian, it was able to provide a 99% recharge to a fully depleted iPhone 5. Under the same conditions, DX actually
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Drop is an iPad connected kitchen scale and app for $80. I am no cook but the Nomiku also looks interesting to precisely control cooking temperatures using the sous-vide cooking method. The $299 price is only for people who are serious about their specialized cooking.
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Frederico Viticci has done a wonderful job summarizing the new IOS 8 capabilities that have been announced yesterday. There is a lot to learn about and the potential with the new tools is exciting to think about. Developers will be busy this summer. This fall is going to be something to look forward to with
Ted Landau wrote a WWDC summary which almost perfectly expressed my thoughts. I too was impressed how Apple has addressed some longstanding issues of iCloud and app communication. They have also managed to bring together the best evolution of OSX and IOS and still have them retain their strengths. One very significant item Ted left
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With WWDC just around the corner in the first week of June it is exciting to anticipate the possibilities for IOS improvements not the least of which is improved inter application communication. This would go a long way in supporting capabilities which could really advance the possibilities for workflow improvements. 9to5Mac has an article that
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