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Can You Live Without the New iPad?

Posted on March 7, 2012 by Bruce Keener

Hum … difficult question. The New iPad is certainly garnering a lot of attention, as is evident from all the press coverage, nicely summarized at Techmeme. If I had not just bought a new iMac, I’d be ordering the new … Continue reading →

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Can Your Mac Run OSX Mountain Lion? [OSX 10.8]

Posted on February 22, 2012 by Bruce Keener

When Apple released the Developer Preview of its next Mac operating system upgrade, to be called OSX Mountain Lion, I tried to install it on my 5 year-old iMac, to no avail. After searching on the web, I discovered that … Continue reading →

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Take Security Seriously

Posted on February 12, 2012 by Bruce Keener

John Gruber quotes the following from Nicole Perloth’s recent article in the New York Times: When Kenneth G. Lieberthal, a China expert at the Brookings Institution, travels to that country, he follows a routine that seems straight from a spy … Continue reading →

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Harsh Words for Android and Google

Posted on January 21, 2012 by Bruce Keener

I pay close attention to what Danny Sullivan and Paris Lemon have to say. So when both recently spoke very critically of Android, I put off any intention I had of getting an Android phone. Danny’s article mocks the supposed … Continue reading →

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Instapaper: My Favorite App

Posted on January 20, 2012 by Bruce Keener

Because I have so many interests, I read a lot. A huge chunk of this reading is of web pages that have been formatted by Instapaper. Basically, whenever I come across an article that I want to read later, I click on … Continue reading →

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From Yojimbo to Evernote to Yojimbo to … (Mac)

Posted on June 10, 2011 by Bruce Keener

In my recent reading of some of Michael Hyatt’s articles on Evernote, it occurred to me that maybe I should give Evernote another try. I signed up for premium access to it when it first came out, but then got … Continue reading →

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Chrome Preventing Macs from Entering Sleep Cycle

Posted on May 27, 2011 by Bruce Keener

Google’s Chrome has become my favorite browser for my iMac. It does have one problem, though, at least on my Mac (an almost 5-year old iMac, 20-inch display, 2 GB RAM, 2.16 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, running Snow Leopard … Continue reading →

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How Much of Your Data do You Really Want in The Cloud?

Posted on December 16, 2010 by Bruce Keener

With WikiLeaks and The Gawker Incident so fresh in our minds, many of us are wondering just how secure supposedly secure data really is. (If you are not up-to-speed on what happened with Gawker, see my previous post and its … Continue reading →

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Book Review: O’Reilly’s “Best iPad Apps” by Peter Meyers

Posted on November 29, 2010 by Bruce Keener

I’ve been wondering if there are some cool iPad apps I’ve missed out on. So, when the opportunity opened for me to review O’Reilly’s Best iPad Apps, I jumped on it. I knew I’d landed a good book when its … Continue reading →

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The Technology the Pro’s Use

Posted on November 10, 2010 by Bruce Keener

If you’d like to know what technology leading entrepreneurs, developers, writers, and researchers use, a site called The Setup (or usesthis) is a must read for you. I have already spent a couple of hours looking through the software and … Continue reading →

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