Apple is rocking on September 9 with their iPod season. It look like we will see new thing for iPod Touch and iPod Nano. Some sources say that we can even see 10 different iPod’s Nano. We will keep you up-to-date on new things as they arise on the upcoming event next tuesday, September 9.
Here are 12 reasons by Dr. Mac regarding why college students should by macs insted of PC’s.
It’s back-to-school time again. So if you’re about to send your kid off to college with a new computer, here are some reasons to make that computer a Mac:
1. Issues are the last things a kid needs at college and Macs have fewer issues with viruses, malware, and icky stuff like that.
It has also been my experience that Macs have fewer issues with almost everything else, as well. This was my daughter’s first year away at college and she required technical help from me only once.
2. Most Macs sold today have a built-in video camera and iChat software. So it’s easy to communicate by video, audio, or even plain old text chat. Of course this assumes that you have a Mac of relatively recent vintage.
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I think his right and nothing to argue with that Windows sucks and all the errors you get. On my experience I used Vista for like an hour and a half and I got like 10 errors and was extremely slow that I had to take my ipod and listen to music wile Vista responded. Needless to say it was a very good laptop. Intel core 2 duo, 2gb RAM and more. So why buy a Windows laptop for your kid if you could buy a mac? Why give them a box of problems if you could give them a box of solutions?
I have used in many occasions the iPhone calculator even the new one on the 2.0 Update, and it has never been the love of my life. Today I found on the App Store a new app called Kalculator which if found useful. I bought it and tried it and can say its money well spent. The “single column numeric spreadsheet” as the developers calls it, is a great Kalculator to have when you are on the go. It stores up your history, its easy to use, very effective, responsive, simple kalculator and last but not least great graphic interface. I see the default scientific calculator on the iPhone and I wonder why so much junk and functions if this should be a on the go calculator for fast equations and what we really need is to see our previews equations and not a single line cal. If you want a good scientific cal buy a freaking Texas instrument guys. I want to see an engineer trying to solve a complex equation on the original iPhone scientific cal. its f**** impossible since we have no way of seeing our previews sums and equations. It also brings great features like when you tap with a single finger you bring the result up, when you tap with two finger you bring up the equation, and if you slide your finger it gives you the option to delete a single equation. I think this is kind of neat. I recommend this Kalculator to anyone who likes a great simple on the go calculator.
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I have been wondering what would be the difference between the Apps Stores around the world. I went to the US App Stores and to the Colombian App Store and they are relatively different.
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I’ve been wanting this app for a long long time. Finally they have released it into the wild. You can download it HERE. This is the product description at the App Store.
Is iPod Touch Update worth paying for?
I have used for the new iPod Touch firmware 2.0 since friday it has been great, fast, and responsive.
Pros:
- App Store on iPod is great, the Apps download and are installed fast. You can get great Apps, such as Facebook(free), Super Monkey Ball($9.99), Google(free), Tap Tap Revenge(free) and much more.
- Mail App support 2008 excel, powerpoint and word documents.
- Mobile Me works very good as push mail and contacts, but calendar doesn’t work very good because it pushed my iCal appointments to the iPod but the iPod doesn’t push the new ones to the cloud.
- Apple remote works perfectly with my mac, but have had some trouble setting it up on my Vista. I love it best App ever. I thank Apple for giving it away for free. If you loved the small remote that the mac brought well is similar but you can see what you are playing and see what song comes next. Imagine having this remote at a party at your house?? YOU WILL ROCK!!! I recommend this remote and Super Monkey Ball to people that like games. Yes I know its hard at first with the accelerometer but after you get the hang of this it’s a great App to have fun while waiting at a doctors office, ext.
Cont:
- Mobile me still has to improve a little regarding the push service on the calendar on my experience.
- Some Apps freeze on the iPod when installing directly from the App Store at the iPod.
Il keep you up to date with news about the 2.0 firmware Update
On monday at the WWDC Steve Jobs announced the App Store was coming soon, but it seems Australia Apple Store thinks different. Here is a photo of the App Store ad at the Australia Online Apple Store. What do you think about this?
It seems Apple is encouraging iPhone and iPod Touch developers to charge a small fee for there apps instead of giving them for free, AppleInsider has learned.
People familiar to the program initiated in March note that the individuals are being assigned a liaison or a “development partner”, who serves as a resource, offering advice and gathering feedback on plans for applications that later on will be submitted to the new App Store for approval.
Apple will allow developers to submit more than one version of their apps to the App Store, which will ship as a part of iPhone Software v2.0. For example if you want a full version it can be available at a cost, while a “lite” version would be available for trial download to encourage people to buy the full version.
Apple’s idea of charging a even a small fee is to most likely to pay the cost of the hosting, marketing and running of the App Store in exchange for 30 percent of the profits from each app sold through them, letting devs remain with the remaining 70 percent.
As always iPod Touch owners are expected to be charged for the upgrade unlike the iPhone owners are expected to get the update for free.
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Well Apple did it again what best motivation to get back to school than to have a brand new iPod Touch? Today they announced the back to school promo where they are giving out an 8 GB iPod Touch, 8 GB iPod Nano, or $299 for any other iPod Touch (16Gb or 32GB if you pay the difference), when you buy a qualifing mac – except for a Mac mini.
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Macrumors is reporting that Apple will launch this year’s Back to School promo tomorrow. You will be able to get a free 8GB iPod Touch with a qualifying mac purchase, excluding the Mac mini off course. It seems students will also have the possibility to choose an 8GB iPod Nano. Will have to wait until to see the promo officially. I hope Apple doesn’t disappoint us tomorrow. Yeah yeah I know they never do.
[Via Macrumors]
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