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[16 Mar 2011 | No Comment | 1,512 views]

Apple released drivers for Xerox, HP, and Epson printer and scanners back on February 24, and the previous Brother driver release came on January 21 — those are pretty tight intervals, suggesting that users were experiencing problems or that Apple recently …

Deals, Mobile »

[15 Mar 2011 | One Comment | 1,008 views]

Regular Fairer Platform readers know that I’m a big iHome fan — we’ve got three in our house and probably could use two more. So, whenever there’s a tempting new offer from SDS Technologies, I do my best to get …

Deals, Mac, Software »

[15 Mar 2011 | No Comment | 1,598 views]

Apple’s recently launched Mac App Store is a great resource despite the fact that it’s actually hard to discover what’s new and what the best deals are — it’s more than a little opaque. A new app from Christian Kienle …

Mobile, Reviews, how to, Software »

[14 Mar 2011 | 3 Comments | 5,363 views]

On the market for less than a year, the iPad has forever changed magazines with the biggest names in publishing diving in head first — People, Popular Science, Wired and more. However, just because a publication has gone digital doesn’t …

Deals, Mac »

[14 Mar 2011 | No Comment | 1,040 views]

Apple’s ultra portable MacBook Air has been a hot seller since it was updated in the Fall. For those of us budgeting every penny, it’s good to know you can get the full experience — five-hour battery, fast SSD, thinnovative …

Mac, Software »

[13 Mar 2011 | No Comment | 1,536 views]

Geeks go back and forth all the time about merits of real world performance versus benchmarking. I’d like to say I have an opinion on the subject, but my 2007 iMac just keeps running smoothly whether I consider the issue …

Mobile, Music, movies, TV »

[12 Mar 2011 | No Comment | 2,564 views]

From Apple: The iPhone User Guide is the definitive source of information for using iPhone, direct from Apple. This guide, in eBook format, gives you an overview of iPhone, its features and built-in apps. It helps you get started with …

Deals, Mac, Mobile »

[11 Mar 2011 | No Comment | 1,847 views]

Apple’s iTunes Store is absolutely jammed packed with free stuff and most of it’s pretty high quality. Here are resources for learning 20 of the more common languages around the world. From Arabic to Tagalog and English and Swedish, every …

Mobile, Reviews, how to »

[11 Mar 2011 | 3 Comments | 3,786 views]

From release day until November, the iPad’s bundled Notes app came with one font, Marker Felt. Apple boosted that to three with the release of iOS 4.2.x and there was much rejoicing. Now, they’ve gone and tweaked the mix with …

Apple luv, Mac, Software »

[11 Mar 2011 | One Comment | 2,000 views]

Fireside International, a Mac equipped media school in Haiti of earthquake fame, recently received a donation from Rosetta Stone worth a cool $45,000. The catch is that their Macs are older PowerPC models and the donated software only runs on …