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August 31st, 2011 | Mac My Day, Marketing & Messages

Apple Slammed With Lawsuits & Apple Slamming Lawsuits On Copycats

I don’t expect that most readers are as interested in the ongoing patent wars that involve Apple, Google, Motorola, Samsung, Nokia and others. But I’ve been following the Samsung conflict with Apple. The issues of the lawsuits and the patent disputes are well beyond any discussion here. For those of you interested feel free to browse the links following this [...]

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August 30th, 2011 | Mac My Day, On Blogs & Blogging

Web Apps, Apple Magic Mouse and Safari Gestures: A Bad Combo

For Mac users that have upgraded to Lion and are using any web-based applications such as Basecamp, WordPress, Tungle or just about any webpage with a form, I’ve got a personal pet peeve.

Apple Magic Mouse Is Much To Sensitive Gesture Multi-TouchI use the Apple Magic mouse. Essentially the surface of this mouse mimics a touch or track pad (taking advantage of [...]

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July 26th, 2011 | Mac My Day

Mac OS X Lion. 10 Important Impressions After One Week.

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I jumped in head first. I bought the latest update to Apple’s OS X operating system the day it was released. Though this can be a risky move because OS X 10.7 (aka Lion) is a major upgrade and, as such, incorporates a number of dramatic changes to the code as well as the staple applications that make up [...]

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July 16th, 2011 | Mac My Day

Vintage Steve Jobs

201107160009.jpgI was happy to find that Gizmodo reprinted (posted) an interview from Playboy Magazine with Steve Jobs from sometime in the mid-1980steve-jobs-young.jpg ‘s. I guess there is some controversy as to the actual date of the interview. Suffice to say this interview took place just before Steve Jobs turned [...]

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March 22nd, 2011 | Mac My Day

Five iPhone Apps Every Successful Person Needs to Use & Master

201103222230.jpgIt’s no secret I love my iPhone. My friends, clients and associates will all attest for my relentless efforts to help them take advantage of this powerful tool and help them be more productive—and successful.

However, most iPhone users who purchase and download apps rarely use them the day after they bought them. In fact, only 10% of iPhone applications [...]

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January 7th, 2011 | Creative Pursuit, Mac My Day

HDR Photo Examples Using iPhone 4G

I continued to be impressed with the camera and its capabilities on Apple’s iPhone 4 or 4G, however you wish to refer to it. Yesterday afternoon while roaming around Orange County and Newport Beach I was stunned by the dramatic sky and clarity as ominous clouds hung over the coastline and the rugged terrain of Catalina Island seemed so close [...]

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June 24th, 2010 | Mac My Day

iOS4 | iPhone 4 | Release Day Apple Store

I didn’t really need an excuse to convince myself to buy a new iPhone. Yet putting it through the complete wash cycle in the automatic washer clinched the deal. Returning from a recent motorcycle and camping journey through the Sierra Nevada mountains (if you’re not following my Continue Reading

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April 20th, 2010 | Mac My Day, Marketing & Messages

How Does Apple Grab So Much Attention? Always.

201004201823.jpgUnless you’ve been sleeping or simply unaware or uninterested in the world of technology or Apple, you know that gadget website Gizmodo somehow managed to get its hands on what is likely the next (4G) generation of the Apple iPhone. With Apple’s trademark, if not Gestapo-style secrecy it’s [...]

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April 6th, 2010 | Mac My Day, Music

Catching Up With The iPad, Al Stewart and Oregon Pinot Noir.

Time for a quick update on the Digital Tavern. Pardon the diversion, but this post will focus on some personal and business items that I hope you’ll find interesting or at least somewhat amused.

First, it’s all the hype and there’s no doubt you’ve seen it on the news, heard strangers talking about it in line at Starbucks or the [...]

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February 15th, 2010 | Creative Pursuit, Mac My Day

Reds. Photography. And Blogs.

And those behind many of such tea parties efforts to make the current administrations efforts to move the economy, improve healthcare and fight the war on terror appear like “Bolshevik Plots,” might take a few hours of their day and take a trip back in time and reflect. … My upgrade is on the way and I’m confident that once and for all this will put those still hanging on to Adobe’s LightRoom effort will ultimately give in and recognize the superior tools, advanced features and ease of use that has been the case as Aperture has matured over the last three years.

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June 19th, 2009 | Creative Pursuit, Mac My Day

Taking MacJournal For A Spin As A Blog Client/Front End

While it’s been long since I’ve posted to The Digital Tavern, today someone suggested I explore using MacJournal. So this is my first test blog. ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Here I insert an image…. but I wonder how I can tell MacJournal where to put the file when uploading?

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After my test, I find that I can insert an [...]

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February 11th, 2009 | Mac My Day

What’s With The iPhone?

200902102324.jpgI’ve had my iPhone for about five months. I love it. Has it changed my life? No. Has it made somethings easier? Yes. Has it saved me time? Not really. It actually costs me more time. Yeah. I’m addicted to it. I say that with caveats. And sometime in the future, I’ll present a more comprehensive critique.

One thing for [...]

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May 19th, 2006 | Mac My Day, On Blogs & Blogging

SmartPhone Anxiety?

Seems Doc is intrigued by the latest Palm Treo SmartPhone announcement. That is until he discovered the new Treo 700 would only be offered on the Verizon and Sprint Networks. Back in the day Verizon and Sprint were the only carriers pushing the CDMA standard — something I believe San Diego-based Qualcomm developed while [...]

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April 11th, 2006 | Mac My Day

Love It. Hate It. BootCamp Can Change Your World.

Perhaps I'm a bit late on jumping in on this discussion. But now since some of the dust has settled and users have tested and commented, I feel it's time for me to chime in on just some thoughts, wishes and observations.

Early last week Apple released a Beta copy of BootCamp, a clever little software add-on to [...]

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February 11th, 2005 | Mac My Day

Apple iLife '05 Initial Impressions

A couple random thoughts about my experience with iLife '05 – Apple's update to its digital hub, digital media suite of applications which include iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD and GarageBand.

1) GarageBand – Wow. I'm am so impressed. But perhaps the best find is the integrated instrument tuner. Simply pull this up and tune your guitar or other instrument. Plus, its [...]

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January 22nd, 2005 | Mac My Day

iLife '05 and iWork – Initial Impressions.

Well I've installed both iWork and the new iLife '05 and overall I'm mildly excited about the new applications. Why? Well Pages seized up on me after creating a simple layout using one of the Apple templates. When relaunching the program it didn't recover the document like Word does most of the time. Keynote is impressive but I wish they'd [...]

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January 21st, 2005 | Mac My Day

Time To Switch?

Order Your Mac Mini

Okay. So you thought I was kidding when in my last post I asked if you'd ordered your new Mac Mini. But no. I'm serious. I saw one the other day. And for those Digital Tavern readers who laboriously struggle through their days reading these and other pages on Windows-based system, your liberation is [...]

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January 21st, 2005 | Mac My Day

Early Bird Gets The "eye" stuff

In the morning some people roll out of bed and take a shower. Others might turn on the TV for a dose of morning talk. Still others might make a cup of coffee while reading the morning paper. Today, I opened my Mac and tracked a few FedEx packages.

You see I bit the bullet earlier this week. That is, [...]

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December 4th, 2004 | Mac My Day, Marketing & Messages, On Blogs & Blogging

The Hugeness of Blogging by Ballmer

Microsoft CEO tells Detroit Press columnist Mike Wendland that “Blogging is huge.” And that's why Microsoft hopes to take advantage of its popularity by launching MSN Spaces. Seems Microsoft is always playing catch up, but then again I never accused the Redmond behemoth of being innovative. Microsoft has tried to capture dollars and clicks from the [...]

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September 3rd, 2004 | Mac My Day, On Blogs & Blogging

Where Did The Digital Tavern Go? <br>Domain Nightmares & Fun!

We're here. Never really went anywhere.

If you have tried to visit this site in the past few days you might have imagined something terrible happened to The Digital Tavern.

Did it go up in smoke? Hacked by teetotalers? Kidnapped by terrorists? Or abandoned by a wayfaring troubadour more interested in curing his wanderlust than feeding words into the internet [...]

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August 28th, 2004 | Mac My Day

Numb to the Num Lock

I’ve been pulling my hair out trying to figure what kind of alien virus screwed with my PowerBook. Punching keys causes random acts of screen pop ups or disappearing windows. Phantom web pages load in Safari when using a normal key combination. And iTunes. Won’t respond. Ahhhh. What has happened? What have I done?

Ok, Allan. Duh. The reason there’s [...]

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