Category: Apple

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Tim Cook Takes Ice Bucket Challenge In Front of Employees

Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO, accepted the challenge from Phil Schiller, Apple’s marketing head, and took on the ice bucket challenge in front of thousands of employees at Apple’s bi-weekly Beer Bash – Yes I didn’t know that event existed either, but apparently it does. Cook took on the ALS-challenge while blasting the song “Ice-Ice Baby” by Vanilla Ice – an apt choice of sound....

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Must Reads: “Liking” Everything, HD Phone Calls, And More!

As a blogger, I spend more time reading than I do writing, so I come across a lot of fantastic articles every week. Here are some of the recent, interesting articles you can’t miss. “I Liked Everything I Saw on Facebook for Two Days. Here’s What It Did to Me” By Mat Honan (Wired) Facebook is not one-size-fits-all. It’s engineered to adapt to our...

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Apple’s New Ad is Inspiring (and super-viral)

Some judge the worth of a product by its features. Others judge it by the impact it has on society. That’s Apple’s message in its latest commercial, titled “Dreams”, advertising the iPhone. The ad was released yesterday, and it’s being very well received. Based on my refreshing, it’s now receiving 30,000-40,000 views an hour, up from 20,000 a few hours ago. It’s also received...

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Why Handoff is Apple’s Greatest Innovation

Apple unveiled a lot of updates today, but none were greater than Handoff (also Continuity, which is a related feature), a feature for both OSX and iOS. Here’s why. What is Handoff? Handoff means integrating your iPhone, iPad, and iPhone, so when you put one down, you can resume what you’re doing on the next device. Click To Tweet Handoff means integrating your iPhone,...

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How iOS 8 is Better Than iOS 7

Today, Apple released iOS 8, and instead of simply recapping what changed, I’m going to go over where Apple improved the operating system. What They Were Working With Apple completely  overhauled iOS last year. This year, they simply added in a lot of little things, to make your iPhone or iPad more capable. Improvements to iOS in iOS 8: In-line responses You can now...