"Gadget" Greg Gazin Demystifies Tech & Life in a useful, fun & practical way!
So you’ve decided that Mom’s old clamshell phone has more than run its lifecycle and it’s time for her to enter into the 21st century with a new iPhone. Now you know Mom will love you no matter what you get her, but she does like a little pampering, now and again. So why not help her accessorize and accentuate her new little pride and joy?
Apple shareholders are certainly in a party mood after Apple announced results for its fiscal 2012 second-quarter that ended March 31, 2012. With their net profits almost doubling over the same time last year, quoting Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin fame, “it makes me wonder.”
If you’re looking for a rare piece of Apple memorabilia, something that likely no one else owns or has even heard of, check out this early Mac prototype that’s up for auction on eBay with a starting bid of $99,995 US.
For those of you who remember the Mac 128K back in the day, you’ll know that it’s the small original modular Mac with that wonderful little 9-inch monochrome monitor, 128 kilobytes of memory, no hard drive and the single-sided single-density 400 K Sony 3 ½” floppy disk drive that hummed a little tune when you booted up. READ FULL POST AT CANOE TECH BLOG
In a movie or a book a flashback takes you from where you are, back to a moment in time. But if your Mac has one of a number of variants of Flashback or Flashfake, it likely means that your computer is infected with malware designed to allow cyber bad guys to install malicious code on your computer. It can do things ranging from generating fake search engine results, generating profits for cyber criminals via “click fraud”, to data theft and spam distribution and even use your computer as a bot for other purposes. READ FULL POST AT CANOE TECH BLOG
You can share songs, pictures and videos across all your iOS devices, but why limit sharing to just those 3 things? Why not extend your invitation to allow sharing of your custom remote control configurations? Now this might sound somewhat ridiculous and perhaps you think I’ve gone off the deep-end, unless of course, you’re someone who owns a VooMote Zapper. READ FULL POST AT CANOE TECH BLOG
You’re in the middle of recording a podcast and that wretched e-mail alert interrupts you. Or maybe today’s the day you have your tunes cranked up and you’re waiting for a message to come in and you don’t want to be disturbed. READ FULL ARTICLE AT G4Canada
March 20, 2012
EDMONTON, AB, Mar. 20, 2012, Troy Media/ – These days, it seems that Apple news just never lets up. If the lineups were any indication, the launch of the iPad on Friday has been a huge success, with the company announcing that they have already sold three million units in just a few days of it being available. READ FULL ARTICLE AT TROY MEDIA
EDMONTON, AB, Mar. 17, 2012, Troy Media/ – What is the big attraction of the new iPad?
For John Winslow, a diehard iPad fan – he owns both the original iPad and the iPad 2 – and the first person in line (for 20 hours!) at the Apple Store at Edmonton’s Southgate Centre, it came down to one thing: its improved resolution. READ MORE AT TROY MEDIA
As expected, people were lined up way ahead of time and literally camped out overnight to ensure that they would become the proud owners of the “new” iPad the day of its release. Edmontonian John Winslow was no exception, arriving just after noon yesterday at the Apple Store at Southgate Centre.
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Apple announced this morning that the third-generation iPad or just iPad as it’s called will be “arriving” as scheduled on-line on, Friday March 16th and available that same morning at retail stores beginning at 8:00 AM local time.
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