Apple held its media event today at the California Theatre in San Jose, California. Tim Cook, CEO, and Phil Schiller, Senior Vice President of Worldwide Product Marketing, took the stage to announce several product upgrades as well as the much-anticipated iPad mini. The presentation began […]
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*UPDATE (2nd October, 2012): After further consideration it has been decided to continue notifying winners by email. However, instead of sending out individual emails to each winner we shall be sending just one generic notification email to all winners. Winners will still be required to
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Over the years we all collect links to sites we consider might be useful or helpful, and I am certainly no exception. These are not sites we would necessarily visit regularly or often but, just as with physical ‘treasures’ we tend to hoard, we know
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As per Apple’s standard practice of releasing an iOS update a few days prior to the latest and greatest device being available, iOS 6 was released today (September 19th). I decided to upgrade my 3rd generation iPad to iOS 6 this evening. Generally, I
I heard the news that Neil Armstrong, the first person to walk on the moon, died today at the age of 82. I was twelve years old when he walked on the Moon. Things were pretty much black and white when you were a kid
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If you read one post on Daves Computer Tips this week make it this one! My favorite phrase is “You can never have too many backups!”. I’m sure you’ve seen it mentioned time and again here on DCT and my wife says I often mutter
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(It’s been a few weeks since the last time you heard from me. I hope you didn’t miss our regular Gone Social updates too much–I know I’ve missed them. As a kind of full disclosure to this post / welcome back / explanation for my
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[message type=”info”]THIS CONTEST HAS ENDED and the winner is… Kenneth Edwards! The number corresponding to Kenneth’s comment was drawn as the winner. He has been notified and we are awaiting his response. I wish everyone who commented could have won. Unfortunately that would have been
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As expected, Mac OS X Mountain Lion is coming to Macs on July 25th. So what’s new in Mountain Lion? Apple boasts that there are over 200 new features. The most significant are related to the convergence of Mac OS X and iOS, or more
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I’ve long made it a practice to treat my Windows machines as if they have already been compromised. No, that’s not paranoia – that’s 30+ years of practical hands on computing experience. If there’s one thing that experience has taught me it’s this – I
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