Tag: apple

• October 13, 2022

  iPhone 14 Pro

  I ordered a new iPhone! 14 Pro it is, to replace the orig­i­nal iPhone SE that I bought in April 2016. Lov­ing the Dynam­ic Island. It is excit­ing because I am fru­gal with gad­gets (and every­thing gen­er­al­ly!) and I buy iPhones only a few times in a decade. So this is a big moment in the house. Like any phone Apple made, I would say… Read more

• December 23, 2019

  Outlook app issues

  I final­ly removed the Microsoft Out­look app from my phone. It still keeps freez­ing and get­ting in my way. The Out­look tech sup­port per­son was kind and offered fur­ther help when I blogged and tweet­ed my trou­bles with the app in Octo­ber. How­ev­er, I still face this prob­lem with the app. The fre­quent “per­for­mance improve­ments and bug… Read more

• October 31, 2018

  No 20th anniversary iMac?

  I hate it when an Apple event hap­pens and I don’t see any updates to the prod­ucts I need. My work com­put­er is due for a refresh. So I ordered the lat­est iMac any­way despite no twen­ti­eth anniver­sary iMac refresh. Read more

• May 1, 2018

  Kindle, Kano and a money lesson

  I bought a Kin­dle Paper­white and Kano Com­put­er Kit while I was in the US last week. I also did not buy an iPhone 8 Plus. My first attempt to buy Kin­dle was at the end of 2010. But that Kin­dle was lost even before it reached me along with my friend’s lost checked-in bag­gage. Over the years I have… Read more

• April 11, 2018

  Gave up on Mac’s Hot Corners

  I recent­ly learned some Mac tips and one of the things I was excit­ed about and tried is Hot Cor­ners. But after a few months of try­ing them they proved to be Annoy­ing Cor­ners. I often acci­den­tal­ly send my mouse point­er to one of the cor­ners of the screen and invoke them inad­ver­tent­ly. So I dis­abled Hot Cor­ners today.… Read more

• September 8, 2016

  Up at 5 am (10 am in San Fran­sis­co yes­ter­day) to watch Apple iPhone Event today. Read more

• August 31, 2016

  7 more nights to Sep­tem­ber 7 to see iPhone 7. Read more

• June 19, 2016

  Personal Hotspot on Idea Cellular 3G

  Hooray! I just made the Per­son­al Hotspot on my old iPhone 4 work­ing by fol­low­ing the instruc­tions in this Apple Com­mu­ni­ty thread. Now I have inter­net in this place I am going to spend the next two weeks. I am on Idea Cel­lu­lar 3G and their cus­tomer care isn’t help­ful in help­ing me set­up Per­son­al Hotspot. They made me… Read more

• February 18, 2016

  Tim Cook’s letter to customers

  One of my Face­book friends post­ed the link to this inter­est­ing Tim Cook’s let­ter to Apple’s cus­tomers. I am shocked by these two para­graphs: …now the U.S. gov­ern­ment has asked us for some­thing we sim­ply do not have, and some­thing we con­sid­er too dan­ger­ous to cre­ate. They have asked us to build a back­door to the… Read more

• September 18, 2014

  Tim Cook on privacy at Apple

  Read the inter­est­ing mes­sage from Tim Cook on Apple’s stance on pri­va­cy. I am impressed with the fol­low­ing two para­graphs: Our busi­ness mod­el is very straight­for­ward: We sell great prod­ucts. We don’t build a pro­file based on your email con­tent or web brows­ing habits to sell to adver­tis­ers. We don’t “mon­e­tize” the infor­ma­tion you store on… Read more