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Accessibility | Zoom It & Siri

by Maximilian Lemos on January 11, 2012

Apple goes above and beyond when it comes to helping the visually impaired. With brilliant accessibility tools across all of their product lines, they are looking out for most everyone. In fact one could even say the greatest accessibility tool is Siri. Having a personal assistant to help you perform tasks on your phone without the need of even [...]

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Lion: Hate your Scrolling, Love the Dashboard

by Maximilian Lemos on July 28, 2011

With Lion on the loose for just over a week now, I wanted to give my initial thoughts, as well as speculate to some degree as to what Lion will look like in the weeks ahead. The Dashboard I would like to be the first (or at least the first person in my circles) to [...]

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Christian’s Story: Operation Find My iPhone

by Maximilian Lemos on July 11, 2011

Recently, my brother Christian had his iPhone 4 stolen.  This was a very frustrating experience for him, as you can imagine.  Though this story has a fortunate ending, it just goes to show how important it is to have the proper precautions in place to preserve the digital extensions we have for ourselves. Here is Christian’s story, [...]

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Netflix Beyond the DVD Player

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by Chris Foley on April 16, 2010

My wife and I are big Netflix fans. We don’t have cable TV, or Dish, or Direct, or any of the other ways of bringing broadcast television into the house. As an advocate for moving everything over to digital media, I do purchase the occasional movie or TV season from the iTunes store, but not [...]

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The eight best iPad apps so far

by Chris Foley on April 13, 2010

Inspired by @kenleyneufeld, who posted a photo of his best iPad apps picks on his Facebook page, here is a screenshot of my own iPad, taken just a few moments ago.  These is my home page, and contains the apps I like the most for the iPad. Here’s an excerpt from an article which appeared [...]

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