Isn?t it about time we did content discovery differently?

Is anyone else a little tired of being pushed towards certain content because of mined personal information? It's kind of like having that friend who resembles you a little too closely; eventually they become tiresome. Here's how we might try doing recommendations differently.

Source: http://gigaom.com/apple/isnt-it-about-time-we-did-content-discovery-differently/

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iPad 2 for Travel

National Geographic Adventure blogger Mary Anne Potts writes that iPad 2 is transforming travel with its smaller size, faster performance, robust battery life, front and back cameras, and a slew of innovative travel apps. After editing her own travel video with the new iMovie app (?optimized for iPad and so easy to use?), Potts predicts, ?this app will transform you into a virtual filmmaker.?

Source: http://ngadventure.typepad.com/blog/2011/04/ipad-2-for-travel-more-packable-battery-tricks-new-travel-apps-trip-videos-more.html

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A Showpiece E-Book for iPad

Blogging in The New York Times, technology columnist David Pogue calls Our Choice ? Al Gore?s new e-book app for iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch ? ?one of the most elegant, fluid, immersive apps you?ve ever seen.? Pogue notes that the Our Choice app updates Gore?s 2009 best-selling book about solving Earth?s climate crisis and that ?the real magic? is in the visual elements, which include more than 400 pages of interactive photos, graphics, and video. Pogue concludes: ?For once, here?s an e-book that really does redefine the net effect of an e-book.?

Source: http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/05/al-gore-invents-a-showpiece-e-book/

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Delay Before Going into Sleep Mode

I had been experiencing a thirty second delay when I tried to put my iMac into Sleep mode.

I discovered that after I hooked up a USB modem to receive faxes that I had left the 'Receive faxes on this computer' option checked in the Receive Options of the Fax preferences. Unchecking that box enabled me to go into Sleep mode with no delay.

[crarko adds: USB devices have often been culprits in Sleep problems with Macs for a long time, as indicated in these previous hints. Checking them out is always a good step in troubleshooting problems with Sleep/Wake from Sleep.]

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Native Skype Client Bringing Video Chat to iPad? [Updated]


A new video promoting a theretofore unreleased Skype for iPad app and demonstrates a stylish interface and video chat capabilities. The video, allegedly posted to Skype's YouTube channel and then quickly removed, was captured by Twitter user @trackizmy1 and reposted by RazorianFly.

Skype for iPhone supports voice chat, voice calling, and instant messaging but does not include a native iPad client, instead running in pixel doubled mode.

Update: TUAW confirms details of the new Skype for iPad app in an interview with Skype VP Rick Osterloh. There is no estimate of when the app will be available.


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Source: http://www.macrumors.com/2011/06/24/native-skype-client-bringing-video-chat-to-ipad/

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GarageBand at Guitar Center

Beginning May 7, you can visit any Guitar Center location and learn how to record and mix tracks using Mac and GarageBand. Guitar Center will present free ?Recording Made Easy? workshops each Saturday from 10-11 a.m. in all of its 216 stores. Four different workshop sessions make it simple for even novice musicians to go from creating basic tracks to recording a finished song in GarageBand.

Source: http://gc.guitarcenter.com/recording-made-easy/

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