As a firm favourite among movie-loving Mac users, Plex allows you to watch movies on your Mac from the comfort of your own sofa – It has support for the Apple Remote and accompanying iOS apps to improve the experience. To top it off, Plex even looks great. Could Plex be the media center app … Read more
With today’s announcement Apple has further re-enforced the notion that we are living in a “Post PC” era. The Mac is slowly becoming a “dumb terminal” for the iPad and iPhone. Some notes I took from the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times. MobileMe has been re-branded as iCloud (iTunes in the Cloud) … Read more
Overview Recently my Director lamented the fact that he could not sync his Google account services to his iPad without using iTunes. He had configured his iPad to access his Google mail and calendar but he could not add new entries to the calendar. The sync was one way from Google to his iPad. He … Read more
It’s been exactly one month since I received my iPad 3G on April 30th. In the last 31 days the iPad has become my go to device for almost everything. Each morning, after I prepare for my day, I walk over to my night stand where I lay the iPad before I turn out the … Read more
Google provides a method for accessing their Gmail service via the IMAP protocol. IMAP is a standard protocol for accessing email but unlike POP3 the email stays on the remote server. With POP3 you are limited to reading your email from one location. With IMAP the email stays on the server and you can read … Read more
