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| 1 | Elements 8 is a snap for photographers of all skill levels | Business |
| Adobe Photoshop Elements 8 for Mac manages to do something that's difficult to find in software: It caters as well to beginners as it does to advanced photographers. Typically, software hits the high or low end of the scale. | ||
| 11/21/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 2 | Something big: 27-inch iMac | Personal Technology |
| Apple's all-in-one computer, the iMac, has always done a good job of putting the customer's focus where it belongs: on what's happening on the screen. Even though the iMac could hold its own in any museum, you're interacting with Mac OS X and the software. | ||
| 11/7/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 3 | You can't have too many backups for Mac hard drives | Business |
| I've written in this column about the importance of having a good, reliable backup of your computer's data. Of course, you know it's a good idea, but backing up is like flossing: you know you should be doing it regularly, but something more important or interesting to do often comes up instead. | ||
| 10/25/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 4 | Snow Leopard: The big improvements come under the hood | Business |
| At one point in a briefing with Apple about the new Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, the conversation veered into surprising territory: We started discussing improvements to seemingly mundane items like ejecting disks and canceling file copy operations. | ||
| 8/27/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 5 | Apple's Snow Leopard emphasizes better performance | Business |
| Unlike new versions of most operating systems (including earlier Apple versions), the changes in Snow Leopard focus on improving core technologies and performance instead of introducing a slew of new features. The top-tier enhancements in version 10. | ||
| 8/26/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 6 | Apple to release latest operating system on Friday | Business |
| This fall's season of new operating systems is beginning earlier than many expected. Apple is set to release its latest version, called Snow Leopard, on Friday, ahead of its previously announced September availability. The Apple release, officially Mac OS X 10. | ||
| 8/24/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 7 | Track down the source of your problem | Business |
| Last year, my mother-in-law bought a new iMac to replace the Power Mac G4 that had labored for years under her desk. Unfortunately, it soon began to intermittently shut itself off without warning. Clearly, some troubleshooting was in order, but where do you begin? Is the problem in the software? | ||
| 8/15/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 8 | Review | iPhone 3GS: Check out the improvements | Personal Technology |
| It's easy to forget that Apple is the brash young upstart in the cellphone industry, because in just two years the iPhone has become the reference for how mobile phones should work. | ||
| 6/26/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 9 | Big changes from Apple beyond new iPhone | Personal Technology |
| I expected Apple would reveal the next iPhone model, the iPhone 3G S, because it was at the same conference last year that Apple unveiled the iPhone 3G. | ||
| 6/20/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 10 | Quiet period for Apple offers chance to pass along tips | Personal Technology |
| The entire line of consumer desktops was updated in early March; the most recent new hardware was the diminutive iPod shuffle around the same time and an updated Xserve in early April. | ||
| 5/26/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 11 | The joy of programs you may never use | Personal Technology |
| If you use Mac software for an extended length of time, you'll discover the pure joy of using programs that contain features you may never use. It's a reassuring feeling, like sharing a conversation with someone who has a history of rich and varied experiences. | ||
| 4/25/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 12 | Taming a sprawl of data on external hard disks | Personal Technology |
| But that slow accretion strategy left me with all that data scattered over at least 10 hard disks, many of which weren't always connected or powered on. Taming it all involved deciding how to answer a couple of important questions: Where would I store all of this data? And how would I back it up? | ||
| 3/14/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 13 | iLife '09 features grow more creative | Personal Technology |
| If you haven't noticed lately, our digital media — notably photos and video — are really starting to stack up. But once you have all that data, what do you do with it? | ||
| 2/14/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 14 | Steve Jobs' no-show lets other Mac products shine for a change | Business |
| At Macworld Expo last week in San Francisco, Apple underwhelmed attendees by unveiling a trio of expected upgrades instead of introducing something new and snazzy. It's not fair that our expectations for Macworld are so high, but that's the bar that Apple has set for itself over the past decade. | ||
| 1/16/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 15 | False alarm: Macs still immune to most viruses | Personal Technology |
| Currently, Mac OS X is essentially immune to the types of viruses that are so common under Windows that Microsoft has finally decided to offer anti-virus software along with Windows. | ||
| 12/6/2008 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 16 | Nikon, Canon push digital still cameras to a new level | Business |
| These new models are DSLR (digital single-lens reflex) cameras, the larger, more professional versions that feature interchangeable lenses and more sophisticated manual controls. | ||
| 11/15/2008 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 17 | Apple: No more new products this year | Business |
| With the release of the iPhone 3G and the iPhone 2.0 software, redesigned laptops, a newly designed iPod nano, and updated Apple TV software during the year (among others), I can't imagine anyone in Cupertino has had much sleep. | ||
| 11/8/2008 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 18 | Adobe's big, new Creative Suite helpful in many ways | Business |
| Every software release is big, but in the Macintosh world, Adobe's Creative Suite is bigger than most. Entire industries rely heavily on programs such as Photoshop and InDesign, so when Adobe rolls out a new version of the suite, it's a big deal. | ||
| 10/11/2008 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 19 | No sign of iPod fatigue with Nano | Business |
| The new fourth-generation model, announced this week, returns the iPod Nano to its design roots: unlike the squat design of the previous incarnation, this one is tall and thin, with a rectangular screen that occupies more than half of the front of the device. | ||
| 9/13/2008 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 20 | Readers help me fine-tune e-mail | Personal Technology |
| My column about switching from Eudora to Apple's Mail software for e-mail generated great feedback. I didn't have the space to cover all I wanted, so I'm going to elaborate on some other aspects of how I use e-mail on my Mac. | ||
| 8/30/2008 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||