For The Sake of Clarity - The Digital Tavern » Mac My Day http://blog.digitaltavern.com -- There are no strangers here, only friends you haven't met Fri, 25 Jun 2010 19:33:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 iOS4 | iPhone 4 | Release Day Apple Store http://blog.digitaltavern.com/mac-my-day/ios4-iphone-4-release-day-apple-store http://blog.digitaltavern.com/mac-my-day/ios4-iphone-4-release-day-apple-store#comments Fri, 25 Jun 2010 03:04:58 +0000 allan http://blog.digitaltavern.com/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 http://blog.digitaltavern.com/mac-my-day/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 hard to [...]

]]> http://blog.digitaltavern.com/mac-my-day/how-does-apple-grab-so-much-attention-always/feed 4 Catching Up With The iPad, Al Stewart and Oregon Pinot Noir. http://blog.digitaltavern.com/mac-my-day/catching-up-2 http://blog.digitaltavern.com/mac-my-day/catching-up-2#comments Tue, 06 Apr 2010 18:56:30 +0000 allan http://blog.digitaltavern.com/mac-my-day/catching-up-2 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 [...]

]]> http://blog.digitaltavern.com/mac-my-day/catching-up-2/feed 0 Reds. Photography. And Blogs. http://blog.digitaltavern.com/mac-my-day/reds-photography-and-blogs-2 http://blog.digitaltavern.com/mac-my-day/reds-photography-and-blogs-2#comments Tue, 16 Feb 2010 04:18:48 +0000 allan http://blog.digitaltavern.com/mac-my-day/reds-photography-and-blogs-2 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.

]]> http://blog.digitaltavern.com/mac-my-day/reds-photography-and-blogs-2/feed 0 Taking MacJournal For A Spin As A Blog Client/Front End http://blog.digitaltavern.com/mac-my-day/taking-macjournal-for-a-spin-as-a-blog-clientfront-end http://blog.digitaltavern.com/mac-my-day/taking-macjournal-for-a-spin-as-a-blog-clientfront-end#comments Fri, 19 Jun 2009 16:32:59 +0000 allan http://blog.digitaltavern.com/?p=897 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 image [...]

]]> http://blog.digitaltavern.com/mac-my-day/taking-macjournal-for-a-spin-as-a-blog-clientfront-end/feed 0 What’s With The iPhone? http://blog.digitaltavern.com/mac-my-day/whats-with-the-iphone http://blog.digitaltavern.com/mac-my-day/whats-with-the-iphone#comments Wed, 11 Feb 2009 13:27:02 +0000 allan http://blog.digitaltavern.com/?p=744 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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]]> http://blog.digitaltavern.com/mac-my-day/smartphone-anxiety/feed 0 Love It. Hate It. BootCamp Can Change Your World. http://blog.digitaltavern.com/mac-my-day/love-it-hate-it-bootcamp-can-change-your-world http://blog.digitaltavern.com/mac-my-day/love-it-hate-it-bootcamp-can-change-your-world#comments Wed, 12 Apr 2006 05:36:24 +0000 allan http://www.allankarl.com/blog/?p=11 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 OS [...]

]]> http://blog.digitaltavern.com/mac-my-day/love-it-hate-it-bootcamp-can-change-your-world/feed 0 Apple iLife '05 Initial Impressions http://blog.digitaltavern.com/mac-my-day/apple-ilife-05-initial-impressions http://blog.digitaltavern.com/mac-my-day/apple-ilife-05-initial-impressions#comments Sat, 12 Feb 2005 01:33:42 +0000 allan http://www.allankarl.com/blog/?p=54 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 [...]

]]> http://blog.digitaltavern.com/mac-my-day/apple-ilife-05-initial-impressions/feed 0 iLife '05 and iWork – Initial Impressions. http://blog.digitaltavern.com/mac-my-day/ilife-05-and-iwork-initial-impressions http://blog.digitaltavern.com/mac-my-day/ilife-05-and-iwork-initial-impressions#comments Sun, 23 Jan 2005 01:35:29 +0000 allan http://www.allankarl.com/blog/?p=56 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 [...]

]]> http://blog.digitaltavern.com/mac-my-day/ilife-05-and-iwork-initial-impressions/feed 0 Time To Switch? http://blog.digitaltavern.com/mac-my-day/time-to-switch http://blog.digitaltavern.com/mac-my-day/time-to-switch#comments Sat, 22 Jan 2005 01:37:53 +0000 allan http://www.allankarl.com/blog/?p=57 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 here. [...]

]]> http://blog.digitaltavern.com/mac-my-day/time-to-switch/feed 0 Early Bird Gets The "eye" stuff http://blog.digitaltavern.com/mac-my-day/early-bird-gets-the-eye-stuff http://blog.digitaltavern.com/mac-my-day/early-bird-gets-the-eye-stuff#comments Sat, 22 Jan 2005 01:08:35 +0000 allan http://www.allankarl.com/blog/?p=58 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, [...]

]]> http://blog.digitaltavern.com/mac-my-day/early-bird-gets-the-eye-stuff/feed 0 The Hugeness of Blogging by Ballmer http://blog.digitaltavern.com/mac-my-day/the-hugeness-of-blogging-by-ballmer http://blog.digitaltavern.com/mac-my-day/the-hugeness-of-blogging-by-ballmer#comments Sat, 04 Dec 2004 07:04:59 +0000 allan http://www.allankarl.com/blog/?p=63 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 successes of [...]

]]> http://blog.digitaltavern.com/mac-my-day/the-hugeness-of-blogging-by-ballmer/feed 0 Where Did The Digital Tavern Go? <br>Domain Nightmares & Fun! http://blog.digitaltavern.com/mac-my-day/where-did-the-digital-tavern-go-brdomain-nightmares-fun http://blog.digitaltavern.com/mac-my-day/where-did-the-digital-tavern-go-brdomain-nightmares-fun#comments Fri, 03 Sep 2004 10:41:29 +0000 allan http://www.allankarl.com/blog/?p=81 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 [...]

]]> http://blog.digitaltavern.com/mac-my-day/where-did-the-digital-tavern-go-brdomain-nightmares-fun/feed 0 Numb to the Num Lock http://blog.digitaltavern.com/mac-my-day/86 http://blog.digitaltavern.com/mac-my-day/86#comments Sat, 28 Aug 2004 14:44:15 +0000 allan http://www.allankarl.com/blog/?p=86 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 [...]

]]> http://blog.digitaltavern.com/mac-my-day/86/feed 0 Symbian Pet Peeve. http://blog.digitaltavern.com/mac-my-day/symbian-pet-peeve http://blog.digitaltavern.com/mac-my-day/symbian-pet-peeve#comments Sun, 22 Aug 2004 11:43:10 +0000 allan http://www.allankarl.com/blog/?p=88 I really love my Symbian-based Sony Ericsson P900 SmartPhone. Like a TREO or a Palm-based device, I used a stylus pen to enter text for messages, calendar, contact or simple navigation using the Symbian UIQ v2.1 interface.

But unlike the original Graffiti that I used to use with my last SmartPhone that was Palm-based to make a [...]

]]> http://blog.digitaltavern.com/mac-my-day/symbian-pet-peeve/feed 0 More Airport Express http://blog.digitaltavern.com/mac-my-day/more-airport-express http://blog.digitaltavern.com/mac-my-day/more-airport-express#comments Sat, 21 Aug 2004 14:35:30 +0000 allan http://www.allankarl.com/blog/?p=90 If you haven't read my Airport Express experience jump over there now and get up to speed. I've had a number of comments and emails regarding the sporadic “skipping” or cutting in and out of the audio that I experienced. As noted earlier, since I took the Airport Express off WDS and configured a profile to simply just “join [...]

]]> http://blog.digitaltavern.com/mac-my-day/more-airport-express/feed 0 Living Wirelessly: Airport Express Update http://blog.digitaltavern.com/mac-my-day/living-wirelessly-airport-express-update http://blog.digitaltavern.com/mac-my-day/living-wirelessly-airport-express-update#comments Sun, 25 Jul 2004 04:38:23 +0000 allan http://www.allankarl.com/blog/?p=93 My new Apple Airport Express arrived earlier this week. Within 45 minutes I had it connected to my wireless network here and streaming music to my home theatre sound system. About the size of a cigarette pack, it compacts a Airport Base Station in a portable device that adds ethernet and USB ports for expanding the network or adding [...]

]]> http://blog.digitaltavern.com/mac-my-day/living-wirelessly-airport-express-update/feed 0 New iPods? Great Article On iPod Ubiquity! http://blog.digitaltavern.com/mac-my-day/new-ipods-great-article-on-ipod-ubiquity http://blog.digitaltavern.com/mac-my-day/new-ipods-great-article-on-ipod-ubiquity#comments Sun, 18 Jul 2004 17:27:34 +0000 allan http://www.allankarl.com/blog/?p=94 New iPods? Great Article On iPod Ubiquity!

Newsweek may have spilled the beans. But details are scant. A great article on the rise of the iPod. My favorite line?

[...] Even though Macintosh sales have gone up recently, he knows that the odds are small of anyone's owning a Mac as opposed to the competition. He doesn't want

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]]> http://blog.digitaltavern.com/mac-my-day/new-ipods-great-article-on-ipod-ubiquity/feed 0 15,000 Songs and Counting. I Want To Access & Listen To Them Everywhere! http://blog.digitaltavern.com/mac-my-day/15000-songs-and-counting-i-want-to-access-listen-to-them-everywhere http://blog.digitaltavern.com/mac-my-day/15000-songs-and-counting-i-want-to-access-listen-to-them-everywhere#comments Sun, 18 Jul 2004 15:33:07 +0000 allan http://www.allankarl.com/blog/?p=95 Using netTunes, Airport Express and AirTunes. Isn't this what the Digital Hub was supposedly to be all about?

It was just about a year ago when I completed converting my more than 1,200 CDs into AAC/MP3 format where they now reside on a 2000 vintage G4 Cube. The Mac Cube is my Music Server. And since relegating this great [...]

]]> http://blog.digitaltavern.com/mac-my-day/15000-songs-and-counting-i-want-to-access-listen-to-them-everywhere/feed 0 Ebay Scam & Identity Theft http://blog.digitaltavern.com/mac-my-day/ebay-scam-identity-theft http://blog.digitaltavern.com/mac-my-day/ebay-scam-identity-theft#comments Thu, 15 Jul 2004 16:05:27 +0000 allan http://www.allankarl.com/blog/?p=96 If you've purchased or sold anything on eBay more than a couple times you've probably run into eBay's rigorous security and SafeHarbor teams. Several months back I cleaned through my garage and found a bunch of old audio equipment I no longer used. Rather than toss into the dumpster, I took some digital photos, wrote some basic copy and posted [...]

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