iBooks – The Business Potential
On Thursday, Apple revealed updates to iBooks and iTunesU and released iBooksAuthor, an application that allows simple creation of iBooks. I think the updates are hugely exciting, particularly for education where teacher generated/distributed content looks to be a really killer aspect to the service. The iTunesU updates are superb; I’m a regular user of the service, and the cross-device-syncing as [...]
17″ MBP Unibody to 13″ MBA
I’ve been a die-hard 17″ Apple Laptop fan for years. I’ve had them since the 17″ Powerbook, and my latest, the 17″ Unibody MacBook Pro was a superb machine. I was running Lion on an Xpress card SSD and using the internal 7200rpm drive for my home folder. It was fast, powerful and had a stunning display at 1900×1200.
Moving on from MobileMe
I was a MobileMe user up until about eighteen months ago. I used it for syncing calendar entries, addresses and email between my iPhone, Desktop and Laptop. Largely, it all worked pretty well, though there were a few things that I thought felt dated. The major issue however, was that every few months something ‘weird’ would happen… Appointments I thought [...]