Apple Pay has been around for a while, but in general, the places I shopped were slow to adopt it. It take a while for a credit card processor to get on board with NFC payments, and then get compatible devices rolled out to all of their endpoints. I did load it up my iPhone […]
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iPad workaround
A few months ago, while camping, my iPad apparently took a spill, and the power button broke. It’s flush with the casing, and it refuses to pop back out, telling me that the internal mechanism is probably not working either. Today I decided to take it to the Apple Store to get an estimate on […]
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Lightning ports
As much as I love Apple, there are a few things that bug me sometimes. One of them in particular, lately, is the lightning port. We’ve had our iPhones for almost 3 years, and one part that is starting to cause an issue on all of our devices is charging off the lightning port. It […]
Read moremacOS Sierra
This past week another new operating system from Apple was released. macOS Sierra is the latest iteration in the tradition of the OS formerly known as Mac OS X. I got it installed on my machines and have been checking out some of the new features. My initial comments are around two items. First, the […]
Read moreNo more headphone jack
Wednesday was Apple’s big announcement of the iPhone 7 and of course the big reveal was that the new iPhone does not have a standard headphone jack. Apple played this off as needing the space for other things, but then quickly said that they were being brave trying to create a new standard, and shift […]
Read moreWWDC 2016
I had the opportunity today to review the Apple WWDC keynote announcements from today through a live blog. For the most part this was a pretty sedate keynote, but there were a couple neat standouts. There were no new hardware announcements this time, focusing the keynote on new software for Apple devices. It does make […]
Read moreSmall is the big thing
On Monday Apple announced it’s latest iPhone, and it’s returned to its 4 inch roots. The new iPhone SE is the same form factor as the old iPhone 5/5s, yet it’s packed with the power of the 6s, the latest and greatest phone from Apple. This is the first time in a few years where […]
Read moreHacking iPhones
The big tech news of the week is Apple’s statement that it would not create special software to help the FBI crack into one of their phones, despite being used by terrorists. The punditry is divided on this issue. No one would argue that the security of our nation, and of other people around the […]
Read moreMicrosoft Hardware surprises
Once again today the tech world was set abuzz about Microsoft’s foray into the hardware world. I’m not sure how much more I can add here to the dialogue, but I wanted to point out one article in particular. Entitled Microsoft has warmed my cold cynical heart with hot new hardware author Vlad Savov muses about how […]
Read moreApple thinks big
Finally catching up this afternoon on all the Apple announcements from today, and I wanted to give a few quick thoughts on all the new items that were released. AppleTV This is a big one for me. My aging 2nd Gen AppleTV has been having issues with rebooting, it can’t play YouTube anymore, and is […]
Read moreApple Music thoughts
My blog on Apple’s Music service announcement is actually over at my tech blog today at http://www.libarttech.net/2015/06/the-beat-goes-on.html So that I don’t leave you empty handed, here’s a picture of a birdbath.
Read moreTrackpads
My blog today is on my tech blog where I talk about my brief experience with the new Apple force touch trackpad. Tomorrow I’ll be back with some thoughts on a camera purchase decision… for now, here’s a picture of a cat.
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Second Runnings 