Charity Checks: the Gift of Giving

If you still haven't picked up all your holiday gifts, take a deep breath and consider filling those empty stockings with Charity Checks, a giving program that lets you make contributions to any charity with your family member or friend choosing the cause.

Reality and Digital Pictures

This article may be more advanced than most of us using our digital cameras will ever need. However, I found it very interesting; especially how painters utilize brightness, saturation and hue to create a 3-D image. It's rather lengthy but I think even the more advanced photographer will find some very useful information.

Reality and Digital Pictures

by Charles Maurer

People often ask me if I think digital photography is as good as film or will ever become as good as film. I reply that for all but a few special purposes, digital is better already. Technically, my digital photographs are at least as good as the best conventional photographs I ever took with 2-1/4" x 3-1/4" (6 cm x 9 cm) film, and pictorially they are better. With my digital camera I can take pictures in the street that used to require a studio.

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Relishing the iPod Lecture Tour

“Retirees in Long Beach and Weaverville, Calif., halibut fishermen in Alaska, data entry clerks in London, casting agents in New York””all separated from the classroom by age, distance or circumstance””are learning from some of the world's top scholars,” Michelle Quinn (Los Angeles Times) tells her readers. They're learning by downloading podcasts from iTune U, where “28 colleges and universities, including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford and Yale, now post select courses without charge at iTunes.” Read more ...

The iPod Study Buddy

Turn your player into the ultimate learning guide

Walk down the street in most cities””or through any college campus””and you're likely to see more iPods than you can count. But those iPods can do more than just pump up gym-goers as they work out, or enable students to rock out as they walk to class or watch videos during study breaks. The devices can also serve as powerful learning tools. Whether you're trying to pass Physics 101””or just learn passable French for your next business trip to Paris””the iPod can accommodate the eternal student in all of us.

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iTunes Goes to School

You get a new study partner.
Your kind of school.

Now you can use iTunes for school, too. iTunes U lets you find, download, and organize audio and video your professors have posted ”” the same way you do with music, movies, and podcasts. Like everything in iTunes, course content can be played on your Mac or PC, or you can sync up your iPod and learn whenever, wherever you want.
Define your own campus.

Listen to language lessons at the gym. Watch lab demonstrations at the cafe. Review lectures in the car or on the bus. With iTunes U, you can study on your own schedule ”” no matter how crazy. Learning has finally caught up with your lifestyle.

Over 16 Universities - Duke, MIT, MI Tech, Stanford, among others - participate in this program. MIT has made available almost their entire course catalogue available. FREE!

iPod Support

Every iPod is covered by Apple's Limited Warranty for iPod for one year. Did you know that the AppleCare Protection Plan for iPod extends the service and support coverage for the iPod, its included accessories, and iTunes software to two years from the original purchase date of the iPod. Keep the music playing on and on.

Warranty expired? Click to fix it! You'll be redirected to Rapidrepair.

MacBook and MacBook Pro Battery Update

Apple has recently discovered that some batteries used in its MacBook and MacBook Pro notebooks may have battery performance issues. Apple is offering a software update that is designed to improve battery performance.

The battery update is available immediately via Software Update or downloadable here.
Note: The factors causing the performance issues do not present a safety risk. You may continue to use your current battery.

Mayor Visits Capitol Mac!

David Smith sat back in his chair, an iPod Shuffle clipped to his collar, while his guests peppered him with questions.

"How satisfied are you with this location?" "What are the things we can do to help you?" "Are you looking at other locations?"

Smith, manager of Capitol Macintosh in Lansing, has no plans to move his shop from the city - or his Michigan Avenue storefront, for that matter. Read the article

This is your Mac on drugs

Why the web can look wonky on a Mac by Chris Macaskill, President of SmugMug

The PC is a soldier. When Direktor Gates demands color #e3823c, PC responds “Sir, Yes Sir!!” Color #e3823c looks identical on the PC whether it's in a JPEG, GIF, PNG, CSS, or HTML.

The only colors Direktor Gates tolerates are found in the box of crayons called sRGB. Internet standards like HTML, CSS and Flash march in step with the same colors.

The Mac Thinks Different. Color #e3823c is different on Macs. Except sometimes.

Read the rest of this article .... and find out why THIS IS A BIG DEAL.

What good is a digital life if you can't share it?

Buy any Mac and the .Mac Retail Box or .Mac Family Pack Retail Box between January 23, 2007 and April 23, 2007 and save $30 on a .Mac annual membership. .Mac extends your iLife experience to the Internet and lets you share photos, movies, podcasts, blogs, and more with friends and family in a single click. With up to 4GB of storage, an ad-free email account, and seamless integration with iLife and Mac OS X v10.4 “Tiger,” .Mac is the Mac way to experience the web.