Two Years of iPad
My how time flies; it’s already been two years since the iPad was originally released, and what a ride it has been. I remember the storm of rumors around it beforehand, and when it was first announced, it was panned by critics as either a big iPod...
Will Apple’s Retina Display make it to MacBooks?
Apple’s third generation iPad announcement came with a lot of upgrades, but due to most of the announcements being leaked out long before showtime, there were few surprises. The least surprising was the long-rumored Retina display, which makes it ea...
Time Machine to the Rescue
Apple released an awesome backup feature called Time Machine back in 2007 when OS X 10.5 Leopard was introduced. Why? Essentially Apple spent the decade building awesome computers in the digital life concept of music, photos, and movies. Apple likely r...
Mountain Lion. Seems cool to me.
From my quick assessment perusing popular online forums, Apple’s announcement last Thursday of the next version of OS X, Mountain Lion, has struck a nerve with some people among the Mac faithful. If you’ve listened to the OWC Radio Podcast, you may...
Will The Internet Separate?
The Internet has been a relatively unregulated zone of international freedom the entire time it’s been used by the general public. In America, we take this freedom for granted as the Internet has always been that way, we invented it, and in America, ...
Hear Your iDevices’ Full Potential
Little known and less often written about is the sound quality that the iPhone 4, iPad, and the latest iPod touch are capable of outputting. Apple must’ve upgraded something in the hardware or software design because these iDevices can output near la...
That’s Outta This World
One of the pictures of the day over at nasa.gov has piqued our space imaginations over here at OWC. The picture shows a very cool pic of the Aurora Australis from space, similar to the Northern Lights known in the northern hemisphere. Get the fu...
Are We Headed Towards Driveless Desktops?
The recent iMac drive replacement issue topic made me go outside the box in my own thinking, and made me wonder if Cupertino, yet again, had another ace up its sleeve we just weren’t seeing yet. I thought long and hard because something was alway...
iPad 2 3G: AT&T vs Verizon
The iPad 2 was announced earlier this week, and like its predecessor, there are WiFi-only and 3G+WiFi versions available. While Apple is offering 3G wireless models for both AT&T and Verizon, you have to pick one or the other – there is no &#...
App Store Subscriptions: Apple Right. Publishers Wrong.
Much has been said in about Apple’s new App Store Subscription policy which essentially says that apps can no longer link to external web sites to buy content or subscriptions. All subscriptions/content must be able to be purchased in the app, with d...
We Live Macs Too!
The iPod was on its third generation of monochromatic display glory, and the PowerMac G5 was new. It was early 2004 and that was the last time I purchased a “Mactop” before I recently jumped into an Intel based Mac laptop this December. My trusty...
Listen To The Music
With the latest focus on iPhones and iPads it’s easy to forget the iDevice that started it all … the iPod. While an iPod Touch, iPhone or iPad do so much more than just iPod functionality, the iPod has become so entrenched with the music listen...
