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Real Racing 2 and Other Games for Mac

I am intrigued. EA Games has brought several of their popular iOS games to the Mac. Including Real Racing 2. The interesting thing is that you use your iPod or iPad as the controller - you know, the steering wheel – to drive your virtual car on the Mac. Seems like fun. And right now [...]

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Apple Education Event Happens Today

The Apple Education Event takes place today at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. It is expected to involve some combination of digital textbooks and the iBook platform. I will keep you updated as details evolve. UPDATE: Lots of good changes to the Apple iBookstore were announced today! Read the summary here. (image from The [...]

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Something Strange Around Here

You may have noticed some changes here at TechnologyNovice.com. About a year ago I started what you could call a “sister” site to this one. It was a place for me to collect all the tutorials and app reviews that I have been working on. The site is called Mac Software Tutorials (betcha couldn’t guess) [...]

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Mac Software Bundle at Productive Macs

Just in time for the holidays – Productive Macs has announced their new Mac Software Bundle. Since I looooovvvvvve productivity apps – I had to mention this here. The bundle includes: Fantastical (read my Fantastical review here) BusyCal Circus Ponies Notebook Home Inventory Default Folder X Launchbar Cashculator and Tags All 8 Mac apps are [...]

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How To Delete Photos from Apple Photostream

[ad#MR - Text and Image Left]Oh – how I hate to be the bearer of bad news. Along with iOS 5 came an awesome feature called Photostream. Take a picture with your iPhone, it shows up everywhere – your iPad, your Mac, on any device that syncs with your iCloud ID. A fantastic feature. For [...]

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iPhoto Has Detected Inconsistencies in Your Library

All I can say is – Thank God I backed up. Today I decided to take the plunge and upgrade to iPhoto 11 because I wanted to be able to use PhotoStream. I actually have Aperture for this exact purpose – but what I didn’t realize that Aperture would cause my Apple iMac to CRAWL [...]

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Wifi Sync Not Working in iOS 5

[ad#MR - Text and Image Left]So, one of the blockbuster features of iOS5 was the wifi sync capability. Unfortunately for me – this is not working. I have tried everything – and I cannot get it to work reliably. Sometimes it does work – so I know that I have the settings right. Other times [...]

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Two New Apple Commercials

Ever since the 1984 Apple ad – I have been a big fan of their commercials. Here are the two latest segments to come out. The first one is for the iPad – and it showcases the more serious side of things. Learning, broadening our horizons, and pursuing our passions are the things they focus [...]