October 2011

Adding Accent Marks on Apple Devices

Do your Apple devices have a foreign accent?

Have you wondered how to type character marks over the vowels of foreign words? Well, thanks to the Small Dog Electronics newsletter, Kibbles & Bytes, you can learn how to add those sexy little accent marks over vowels, if your Mac uses Lion OSX 10.7, and your handheld devices use their new iOS.

For those of you using Lion, the same steps you take on your iPhone (or the like) are now applicable.

To produce an accent on your Mac using 10.7, press and (briefly) hold the letter that needs the accent mark.

Your accent character choices will then appear, and you can navigate to the one you need

Thanks to David Watersun for this tip.

By dpozin, ago

Free Audiobook of Steve Jobs Biography

Written By Walter Isaacson, and published just this week, Audible is offering a free audiobook when you sign up for a free 14-day trial of the service. Among thousands of available picks: “Steve Jobs,” by Walter Isaacson.

To put that in some perspective, the audio CD version of “Steve Jobs” has a list price of $49.95, and sells for around $34.95 at Audible. For fans of spoken books, Audible is an unbeatable deal.

You can cancel within 14 days from starting a trial subscription, and you may keep the free Jobs audiobook on your Apple devices without a subscription …

By dpozin, ago

E-Cycling Old Computers

E-Cycling accepts old, broken computers and broken cell phones. They will attempt to refurbish them, or they will be turned into scrap for recycling and kept out of the landfill.

Open Tues and Sat for drop off 9am-1pm.

You can find them at 901 Lower Main St,Wailuku

And / or call them at 573-4018.
[If you have a large load pick up, call: 280-6460]

By dpozin, ago

QR Codes

The question of whether people are using QR codes in their business was raised.

There was debate on what they were and how they are being used.

My personal view (stated on the evening)  is that their current application is gimmicky rather than real – and arguably ahead of being ‘ready for prime time’.

I have seen them used on business cards for easy sharing of contact information. Others have observed them in newspapers like Maui Time – but real returns as yet unknown.

I did share this URL on the evening as a truly CREATIVE application of using QR codes, but this is not to be taken as a business case – but does serve to demonstrate that such technology like this can be used in VERY interesting ways – and like so much is really limited by the imagination of the application of the use – rather than the technology.

For raw technology, this article popped into my sphere of interest just this morning. Enjoy.

Why QR Codes are failing.

To Quote Sean Cummings:

People will not adopt a technical solution that serves to replace a manual task, if that solution is less efficient than the manual task it replaces. How could we think that QR codes for marketing would work any better than CueCat? Did we not learn the first time?

To Quote John Gruber:

QR codes are built for machines, not humans.

By MAUS Administrator, ago

MAUS Meeting: October 19

Wednesday, October 19, 2011, 6:00 – 8:00 PM
At Maui College (Laulima Rm. 211)

Topic: Running your business on Apple products

Join us this month as members share how they run a business on their Apple products. We will discuss successes, setups, strategies and barriers. We will also briefly discuss the new iPhone 4S, iOS 5, iCloud and Steve Jobs. As always bring your Mac, iPad, iPhone, and other related Apple questions with you to the meeting.

By MAUS Administrator, ago