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Sizing up the new, smaller iPad Pro
Life, Graham K. Rogers, Published on 13/04/2016
» Towards the end of last week, the 9.7-inch iPad Pro went on sale, a few days after its release in major American and European markets. Initially, only the three Wi-Fi versions are available, but Wi-FI+Carrier models should be out in a week or two, depending on regulator approval. A similar delay occurred in 2014 when the iPad Air 2 was released.
Flexibility of the iPad Pro
Life, Graham K. Rogers, Published on 20/04/2016
» Over the past few weeks, I have had some debate about the iPad Pro. I picked up the 9.7-inch version two weeks ago, but had been using the 12.9-inch version since November. Like others who have used these, I understand Apple's claim that this is the future of computing. Those I have debated with, do not. Their main difficulty is categorising operating systems: this is OS X (or Windows), which is meant for work; this is iOS and it's not for serious people.
Raising the drawbridges
Life, Graham K. Rogers, Published on 24/02/2016
» In a court decision in California, Apple was ordered to design a new operating system that would disable the erasing of all contents of an iPhone 5c after 10 failed passcode attempts. Within hours Tim Cook had put out a testy comment on the decision and Apple's commitment to its customers -- not the one specific iPhone that the FBI want pried open, but those of all customers, now and future.
Changing strategies with the iPad Pro
Life, Graham K. Rogers, Published on 02/03/2016
» Last July, I was delighted with the arrival of the MacBook. Despite its 1.1GHz processor, it provided respectable performance, helped by the 8GB 1,600GHz RAM and the 256GB SSD. This was the same SSD as in my Mac mini. That has provided quite good performance, along with the 512GB SSD in my MacBook Pro. Both of those Macs also have 16GB RAM, so with all three devices, processor speed is not the main criterion for performance.
Results, replacements, watermarking and cartoon-style output
Life, Graham K. Rogers, Published on 03/02/2016
» Last week, Apple announced its First Quarter 2016 results. Income was within Apple's guidance, but that did not stop Wall Street from deciding that Apple was doomed, despite the largest quarterly profits from any company ever. If Apple were a country, its GDP would give it a ranking of 42 (Thailand is 29).
Free iPhone apps aplenty
Life, Graham K. Rogers, Published on 10/02/2016
» Several reports over the weekend had Apple as the bad guys again over the failure of some iPhone 6 and iPhone 6s models. They had had the home button replaced by unauthorised dealers and after an update to iOS there may be a report of an Error 53: the phone fails.
Error 53, Polarr and more
Life, Graham K. Rogers, Published on 17/02/2016
» Following the Error 53 problem for iPhone users with unauthorised home button replacements, several sites reported a problem for the iPhone if the date is reset to Jan 1, 1970 (depending on timezone), although why anyone would want to do that is beyond me. Do not try this at home.
Seagate Wireless --- not quite what I hoped
Life, Graham K. Rogers, Published on 06/01/2016
» We start 2016 with the usual predictions about Apple: no innovation, low share prices (not as low as 2008) and estimates of falling iPhone sales as if that were it. We should have a better idea later this month with the quarterly financial figures. In the meantime, there are predictions that Apple will buy Tesla, with some analysts speculating on which companies Apple should buy. Some never learn.
Seagate Wireless Plus disk (Part II): Not exactly plug and play
Life, Graham K. Rogers, Published on 13/01/2016
» Apple's iOS devices do not allow users to access data on disks using the Lightning connector. Using Wi-Fi to access content stored on a disk is a solution. I have been trying to work with a Seagate Wireless Plus disk. I was encouraged by a number of positive reviews I had read.
Artistic output for photographs on iOS devices
Life, Graham K. Rogers, Published on 20/01/2016
» Although I prefer working in Aperture, I have softened my views on Photos on the Mac. It is much improved from its first release, but there is still room for improvement. I use it mainly for iPhone photographs synchronised to the Mac via iCloud.