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Dilbert sums up the John Browett mentality of thinking from his Dixons days. Thankfully he got canned when he did. Just what else went on behind the scenes at Apple where reaching the holiday period Apple would rather be without a Head of Retail Operations at all than keep Browett on.
Continue reading → Dilbert Explains The John Browett Mentality
Magican is a free doctor for your Mac that helps clean away all the crud that might be slowing down your Mac. With features like a malware scanner, duplicate file finder and a rather handy fan controller, Magician has one more trick up it’s sleeves. It comes at the low price of being free.
Continue reading → Magican 1.3.1 Review : Helping Clean Your Mac & Protect Against Mac Trojans
Dragon dictate gets an update with a rather interesting bug fix consititing of “Corrected issues related to transcription of M4V file formats.” Any ideas anyone? Click for the full bug list for the 26mb download
Vodaphone have just pushed out information about their new range of tariffs. Those on the older ones pretty much get less data if you have their lowest tariff. The push to data is starting and it’s looking like plans are afoot to subsidise their 4G offerings.
This might not be our usual style of article but it’s cool none the less. A cool info graphic on how smartphones are useful during pregnancy from apps to looking up general information.
Continue reading → Ease the Pregnancy Pain With Your Smartphone
It’s interesting to hear tales from “the other side” (aka Android users) so I asked a friend to write up some tales from The Android Side. This week it’s all about doing many peoples favourite, watching TV in Bed.
Continue reading → Tales From The Droid Side : Trash TV Time.
The floodgates are open. The popularity of the Macbook Pro with Retina Display has proven to the notebook and ultrabook manufacturing market that consumers are ready for a new breed of ultra-high resolution mobile computing devices. For web designers, this could prove another unnecessary headache. Luckily, there are ways around. Here’s how to optimise your site for Retina displays and therefore for increasing number notebook and ultrabook users.
Continue reading → Getting your website ready for the Retina generation: easy fixes
The Dell XPS 12 Duo looks like a MacBook Air merged with an iPad. So cool and ultraportable. – #ApplesDaysAreNumbered http://t.co/SCM1HgCl
Ahh the Apple vs Samsung wars, how they rage on in both the courtroom and internet forums of the world. Quite rightly Samsung should be proud of the sales numbers out there but are they all really they make them to be? This Samsung dominance isn’t just down to “better” handsets but to the overall reaching strategy of flooding the shops at any opportunity and then theres the marketing.
Continue reading → Some Reality Behind Samsung Sales Numbers
Not sure about anyone here but when a CEO of soemone like Microsoft first says “there’s nothing interesting to report” you’d think someone would give Steve Ballmer a nudge and say “you kinda need to shut up or at least take PR lesson”. Not Ballmer, today he drops another precious PR bomb with tablet Surface “are starting modestly,” Updated
Bless this iMac, it’s barely ever turned off and spends most of it’s night time in sleep mode rather than being turned. This has meant for a while now I’ve wanted an Alarm clock to wake up my Mac, run a few apps and have everything ready, bar the mornings cup of tea, for me when I get to my desk. Alarm clock pro suceeds in being a basic alarm with a lot, LOT more.
Continue reading → Alarm Clock Pro Review : An Alarm App Done Right
We have a love affair with voice recognition here and especially DragonDictate. For a program which marvels at taking the spoken work and converting it to text theres an equal amount of joy and frustration. In short it’s too damn easy to loose work with a click of a button, here’s a sunday afternoon story for you.
Continue reading → DragonDictate 3 Express Editor Review : Be Warned It’s Too Easy To Loose Work!
Many iOS app reviews rely on a tried and tested methodology where it’s installed, reviewed from the comfort of a desk, write up a general impression of how it would work in the real world, put up a score and bingo your done. Not here at EssentialMac.
Continue reading → Worldictionary iPhone App Review – Instant Translation And Search
Scott Forstall, Apple’s SVP of iOS Software, and John Browett, SVP of Apple Retail, have been unceremoniously dumped in a major board-level reshuffle in the world’s largest company. Forstall’s ability to rub execs up the wrong way has been well-documented, and Browett’s astonishingly rapid destruction of previous SVP Ron Johnson’s unique retail empire has been a matter of outrage among Apple’s retail employees.
Once a month we’re going to choose and back an Apple / Cool / Looks like it could be fun piece of tech. This month were looking at the HiLO Lense, A unique camera accessory for iPad & iPhone. HiLO Lens is a right angle lens for the iPad and iPhone.
Continue reading → Kickstarter : HiLO Lense First Right Angle Lens For iPhone and iPad Photography