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Geek Tip: Use Cover Flow to Search iCal Appointments
Sugar HQ is now using iCal more than ever, so it's totally out of selfishness that I bring you today's tip. Instead of starting up iCal to view your appointments, you can use Cover Flow! Cover Flow is one of my favorite ways to browse music and photos and search for files.
Geek Tip: Maximize Your Mac With Spotlight
Maybe you know everything that Spotlight does already, and maybe you've never really thought about the little magnifying glass icon in the top right hand corner of your Mac's screen.
If you're in the latter category, then I have some tips that will make your life easier. You may use it most often in the search bar of your browser window or to hunt down stuff in iTunes, but these tips explore the offline applications of this handy little tool (for those of you who have updated to Leopard).
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Website of the Day: Kanye This
OK, so I can't say that today's site is good for anything more than a bit of fun during your dull day, but it made me laugh out loud when I saw it. Kanye This takes Mr. West's now famous MTV interruption and makes it available for you to use on websites.
Just enter in the site you want to interrupt in one field, list your favorite site in another, and voila!
Test Your Celebrity Cell and Techie Knowledge
Have you've been paying attention to the gadgets and gizmos that get the spotlight in Tinseltown and who likes to speak tech on the streets? Take my quizzes and find out!
Guess Which Celebrities Wear Their Phone on Their Hip!
Jennifer Hudson Spotlights the iPhone
The last time I checked in with Jennifer Hudson, she was doing press for the Sex and the City movie and saying that she was not a geek like her character in the film, but that she was a Mac girl.
She wasn't lying, as you can see in her new video for "Spotlight," where she proves her Apple love by using an iPhone. Check out the video on her YouTube page!
A Whole New World: My Fave Things About the iPhone 3.0 OS
Since downloading the iPhone's new 3.0 OS, I've had a chance to try out pretty much everything and decide what I love and what I like (so far, nothing to hate).
I will say this: the copious changes are like having a whole new iPhone — I definitely felt like I had a new device, the experience is so different. What do I like the most?
What's More Exciting: The New iPhone OS or the iPhone 3G S?
Yesterday I got some good news for anyone who upgraded to an iPhone 3G last year, only to be told they wouldn't be eligible for an upgrade to the 3G S at the time of its launch: you may have just been given the green light.
So even if you're not eligible yet, there's a silver lining, and that goes for all iPhone users (and Touch, holla!): the 3.0 OS update! I thought the OS update to 2.0 last year was amazing, but 3.0, with its ooh-la-la features including cut and paste, Spotlight, and MMS, feels like more than just a firmware update (check out my review for all of my thoughts).
Website of the Day: Wordnik
Of all things, I am a total word geek. If I hear or see a word and don't know the definition, I use Spotlight or grab my dictionary.
But the problem with conventional dictionaries is that you get a few words to define another, and if you're lucky, one phrase with usage.
Have You Ever Made and Abandoned a Social Network Profile?
Even though it seems everyone and their mother is on Twitter (literally, my mother is on Twitter), a recent study found that the majority of Twitter users sign up but never type a tweet or get followers.
Hubspot found that 54.9 percent of users have never tweeted (out of 4.5 million Twitter accounts), leaving empty profiles, placeholders for people who signed up on a whim, only to lose steam with the whole tweeting thing.
I get why this happens — the deluge of Twitter over the last few months has brought the site mainstream awareness if not success, but once there, many people don't "get" it.
iPhone OS 3.0 Details
To say that the iPhone is the most popular smartphone on the market is kind of an understatement — after just two generations, Apple has sold more than 40 million iPhones, and users have downloaded one billion-plus apps from the App Store. And the newest iteration is going to be even better, with more than 100 new features, including the expected cut/copy/paste and MMS support, tethering (which connects your iPhone to your computer via wireless and Bluetooth), and even more that you may not have expected.
Like the one called Find My iPhone.
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