Mark Moran

Blogging from the iPhone

2008-07-22T17:27:00.000-04:00

I just downloaded a new iPhone app; again. This app is Wordpress. The app allows posting to your Wordpress blog from your iPhone. I wouldn't recommend it for multipage posts, but a quick blurb waiting in line isn't hard to do. This is actually my first post using it. Maybe I'll post more often now????

EasyTask

2008-07-19T18:54:00.000-04:00

Task management or to-do lists are a very personal thing. Everyone seems to have their own concept of keeping track of their "to-do" list. Usually there is one common thread: a list. How you shuffle it, organize it, or tag it, is the personal part of it.I was excited to see the to-do option in mail.app with the release of Leopard, but that just never seemed to get off the ground. Additionally

Why buy a Mac Mini????

2008-02-24T16:24:00.000-05:00

I was looking to buy a Mac mini. As I sat down to price them. I noticed that a MacBook was pretty close in price. When I sat down and added it up it was much closer than I thought. It was only just about a $125 to $150 premium for a portable computer.

Another iPhone price drop

2007-09-07T04:33:00.000-04:00

Will there be another iPhone price drop in 3 months? I was just checking out the AT&T site and I happened to notice the date in the price block in the upper right hand portion of their site:

Apple burns me again.

2007-09-06T17:08:00.000-04:00

There I go posting an "early" post, in my early adopter tradition and minutes after I post my complaint, Apple responds.You made it right Apple. I appreciate that. And I'm taking my $100 and using it to stand in line for the next new item.

I've learned my lesson

2007-09-06T12:55:00.000-04:00

I'm happy with my iPhone. I love new gadgets. But I've learned a lesson. You can buy MANY more new gadgets if just wait a little over 2 months if you buy an Apple gadget. I'm an early adopter. I buy the latest, greatest. I deal with the bugs, the kinks and the cost of having the latest greatest and enjoy it. I bought the MacBook Pro an hour after it was announced. There have been revs and

ImageWell Review

2007-07-07T12:10:00.001-04:00

There are just pieces of software that just do what you want. Simple, yet they accomplish just about every aspect of the task at hand. And then to top it off they're free!Imagewell does just that. Ever need to resize that digital picture to post on a web page? Want to upload it to your ftp site? Imagewell does both simply and very well. With the latest version it will upload your picture

iPhone - phone jack hack

2007-07-07T12:10:00.000-04:00

I was happy to hear that Apple was including a 3.5" jack on the iPhone. There would be no having to lug around an adapter for headphones like I did with my Treo. Then i got my iPhone and tried to plug in my Bose noise cancelling headphones and they wouldn't work. Close examination revealed the plug wasn't all the way in because the jack was recessed! This may become one of life's great

Howto reset your iPhone

2007-07-06T22:42:00.000-04:00

There I am loving my iPhone. Talking and surfing. Talking and emailing. Then the fun starts to diminish. Talk, surf, crash. It's like a snowball going down hill, getting worse and worse. It's more like just talk, and crash.Thinking it's a mini OS X, I figure there's got to be a "Force quit" or heck just a reset. Sure enough:Force Quit: Press and hold the "Home" button for six seconds with

MacWorld's list of 10 rights and Wrongs on the iPhone

2007-07-01T17:38:00.000-04:00

I've just found this. It's MacWorld's list of what Apple did right and wrong. The best synopsis of plusses and minuses I've found in my opinion. Probably because I agree with all of them. :)

The iPhone - The next Day

2007-07-01T17:37:00.000-04:00

I've now had my iPhone for 24 hours plus. I've posted my first impressions of it yesterday now I've got a few more comments. This isn't my first "smartphone". I've been searching for a "smartphone" that wasn't actually STUPID for years. I've had just about everything but a blackberry, and none of them could unobtrusively bring my info with me on the road. I was either manually moving things

My iPhone Experience & Review

2007-06-30T16:39:00.000-04:00

Well I know there is plenty of information and blogs about the iPhone today and for the past several months. But I got my iPhone yesterday and I'd like to add my comments as I haven't seen some of these issues mentioned anywhere else.Let me start by saying I've had them all..... I had Palm Pilots (I still have a Pilot 1000 w/ a serial number < 1000), Treos, Windows mobile phones, etc. I've been

Delicate iPhone - NOT

2007-06-30T08:59:00.000-04:00

One of the things that concerned me with my $600 phone, was it looked "brittle". Like if I dropped it an inch my screen would have a big crack right down the center. Well thanks to these folks, I'll still be careful, but I feel a little more confident.PC World Stress TestOooppss

Remote buddy to the rescue

2007-03-27T18:35:00.000-04:00

About a year or so ago I posted plea for uses for the little white remote I got with my MacBook Pro. Well I've found the solution. It's called Remote buddy. It allows you to take any software you can run on your MacBook and reprogram the six buttons on your remote to do just about any function in the software. It comes with a complete set of preprogrammed keys for a series of software.

Airlines are missing an opportunity

2007-03-27T17:57:00.000-04:00

I just flew back from Las Vegas. (Nope, I didn't hit it big as I didn't gamble. It's really doesn't draw me. I rather get my adrenaline rush on a roller coaster.) I was sitting on a full plane, wondering when the last time I was on a flight that did NOT have every first class seat sold out. I turned to my wife and asked if she could remember the last time she was on a flight with first class

Mac OS 10.5 to employ a system-level P2P

2006-05-01T16:59:00.000-04:00

Welcome to the "collective".Mac OS Rumors :: The Original Mac Rumor Site.: "It seems the rumor mill says that Apple will be embedding a BitTorrent client in the next level of the OS. This will allow all Mac users to "donate" bandwidth for System Updates, etc, possibly in exchange for iTunes Store content. Who knows maybe even Apple store items. Using a 3 to 4 year cycle maybe you can pay for

Keeping Your stuff online

2006-04-30T16:59:00.000-04:00

More and more there are more and more functions that used to exist on the desktop that are now online. These online functions like calendars, to do lists, mail and etc are getting better and better. An example is Google calendar. This is probably one of the best calendar applications I've ever used. That includes both online and desktop applications.There seems to be a competition for our

Boot Camp Beta

2006-04-05T16:59:00.000-04:00

Well I think we can kind of infer what Steve Job's announcement was going to be for Apple's 30th Anniversary, but they missed it by 4 days: Apples will run Windows. Note that the Windows is capitalized. Specifically I mean Windows XP.Unless you were living in a cave over the last several days you're heard the news, it's been on the Mac sites, the geek sties, and even the main stream media.. A

Logitech Warranty - The Best

2006-03-14T15:59:00.000-05:00

It's human nature that we love to rant and complain about things. Too seldom due we extoll the kudos, especially to larger companies. Well I figured I had a good opportunity to hand out some praise today. About a month ago I bought a the Logitech wireless iPod headphones at a deal I couldn't pass up. They retail for $199.00, but buy.com had them on sale for $79.99 with a $50.00 rebate.

Apple should have called Rosetta Windows

2006-02-26T15:59:00.000-05:00

About a year ago I bought a 12 inch iBook as I got a good deal on it and I was curious to see what Apple had to offer. I kept hearing about stability and ease of OS X. I was tired of tinkering. You know the times when you're using your computer and you would load a driver, uninstall the driver, try a different version of the driver, uninstall the program, reinstall the program just trying to get

Geeks are from Mars and nongeeks are from Venus

2006-02-11T15:59:00.000-05:00

One of the biggest stumbling blocks to the use of computers by the "masses", is geek v nongeek. I don't mean vs in the sense they oppose each other, but rather the differences in traits. There is a mindset that understands computers. A person with that mindset will intuitively function with a computer. No manuals, no training, they can navigate through and work software new or old. It's more than

MacBook Pro and Presentations

2006-02-03T15:58:00.000-05:00

Of all the demos the one thing I haven't heard asked, or seen demonstrated is: a slide presentation.... I can honestly say I've given a LOT more lectures using Keynote or PowerPoint on my notebook, than I've watched movies. What I'm looking for is --- does the handy dandy remote allow you to load up presentation and control it with the remote? And why IR not RF? :(

Battle of the Software Giants

2005-11-02T15:58:00.000-05:00

Google's stock hit an unholy sum of $379 as of the day of this blog. Google the company that can double as a verb. Where are the Google haters? You know the same type that hate and bash Microsoft for no reason other than they are a big company.How has Google avoided being the big bad corporation? Has Microsoft seen the light and begun wooing the geeks back? The geeks, the people you ask

What is EMR?

2005-10-17T16:58:00.000-04:00

What is EMR?EMR is an anacroym for (E)lectronic (M)edical (R)ecords. EMR can actually cover quite a range of items. EMR can be an electronic wrist band containing a person's vital medical data. It can also be the complete set of "notes" your doctor records during your visit entered into a database during your visit. Taking paper records and scanning them into a electronic version is a form of

What is an RSS feed?

2005-10-15T10:00:00.000-04:00

What is a RSS feed? In it simplest and most common form you can think of RSS as a way to subscribe to a web page. Typically you "surf" to a web page read the content and move on. An hour, a day, a week, or a month later you may return to find the same content, or the other extreme, the entire site has changed. Checking a single web page on a regular basis isn't hard and isn't that