Your new cable is smarter than you think

Over the years I have heard a lot of people complain about Apple and their cables. It seems to most people that Apple comes out with a new cable all the time, keeping consumers on their toes and reaching into their pockets. Just a few weeks ago I told a client that their new iPhone …

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Apple – stop taking drugs!

I’ve long believed that the people who design computer software are the same people who design the taps in restrooms. You know the ones: you simply want to wash your hands but instead of turning on a tap, you’re forced to perform a series of cryptic hand gestures in front of a brushed-steel monolith, only …

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Making the iPhone work for the elderly

When Microsoft produced their iPhone competitor…no seriously they tried, they often accused the iPhone of just being a “sea of icons”. Well they were certainly onto something and indeed went on to sell their Metro interfaced phones by the bucket loa…no wait, that’s right…it went bust. But they did have a point because the iPhone …

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The iPhone’s Spooky Action

Well, its not quiet limited to the iPhone, but it made for a good title anyway. Are you are still emailing yourself links, messaging yourself photos, or—heaven forbid—manually re-typing a tracking number from your phone onto your laptop? You are? Well you are working way harder than you need to and missing out on one …

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You have more than one clipboard*

*If you’ve updated to Tahoe. Remember the 80s? Big hair, shoulder pads, and a single, solitary clipboard on the MacPlus. If you wanted to move three things, you did it three times. Copy. Paste. Copy. Paste. Copy. Paste. It was a digital dark age, a barbaric wasteland of inefficiency and that was the state of …

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