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Registration is open for the 6th Annual Philly Emerging Tech Conference (a.k.a. Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise), which is set for April 27 – April 28 at the Society Hill Sheraton in Philadelphia. The Early Bird rate, available through February 15, is $295 per person. If you can take advantage of the group discount (4 colleagues or friends, not necessarily from the same company, registering at ...

The Problem Recently some of my MacBook hardware failed. The MacBook had been sitting in a corner unused for a long time. My iPad has come to replace it as my main portable device. Most of what I wanted to do — read the news, email, calendar, magazines — can be done quite easily from my iPad. The MacBook was neglected ...

It’s been about a month since Apple launched the Mac App store on January 6. The Mac App Store is Apple’s attempt to bring the same easy of use of the iTunes App store to Mac app purchase and installation. While it does not quite deliver on that promise it does make things simpler than they have been in the past. ...

My friends and family know that I am a news junkie.  I have over two hundred RSS feeds in Google Reader. I’ve tried quite a few iPad and iPhone RSS readers.  While there are quite a few RSS functional readers for the iPad, most have poor user-interfaces and or lack important features.  Some, like Pulse, have a beautiful user interface but are not quite useful for people ...

With the start of the holiday season a lot of use are traveling to visit with our families and friends. The TSA has new security screening procedures in place that you may not be aware of. This app may come in handy during your travels. With MyTSA, from the Transportation Security Administration, you can: + Check approximate wait times at TSA security checkpoints at ...

When browsing the web, you are continuously being tracked. Not only by the websites you are visiting, but also by major companies that embed their ‘content’ into other websites through ads and analytics. As a result, companies like Google and Facebook have an almost complete picture of your online activity. It’s National Cyber Security Awareness Month.

New software: Sparrow

Bakari Chavanu writing for AppleMatters Remote’s deficits are made crystal clear in comparison to a free app called ZumoCast, which streams your entire collection of video and music tracks on your computer to your iPhone, iPad, and web browser without the need to upload or sync. I’ve been using ZumoCast for a few weeks and I love it. I installed it on my iMac and linked it ...

The Camera+ app from model and photographer Lisa Bettany is the app I prefer to the built in camera app. It has a cross hair and hand shake feature that helps me with composing and the built in image filters allow me to add an artistic touch to my photos.

I saw an episode of Apple Byte in which host Brian Tong mentioned that there is no way to upload a full 720p HD copy of a video captured on an iPhone 4 without first syncing to a computer. I can imagine why he would think that. Just a few days after getting my shiny new iGadget I shot a video of my nephew ...